{"id":1320,"date":"2018-09-19T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polha.co.uk\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2023-03-24T18:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:09:53","slug":"scottish-housing-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/scottish-housing-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Housing Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Scottish Housing Day 2018<\/h1>\n<p>On 19 September we opened our doors to celebrate <a title=\"Visit Scottish Housing Day website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishhousingday.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish Housing Day<\/a>, and invited our tenants along to find out more about how our organisation is run.<\/p>\n<p>Tenants took part in a guided tour of the <a title=\"Find out more about St Nicholas Court.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polha.co.uk\/housing\/development-archive\/st-nicholas-court\/\">St Nicholas Court<\/a> sheltered housing complex on Ferry Road where we welcomed them along with our\u00a0Chief Executive, Keith Anderson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.polha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/scottish-housing-day-2018-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of three people walking through the grounds of St Nicholas Court.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tenants also heard about the work we&#8217;re doing to engage the community as we develop our new strategy for 2020-2025, and were invited to take part in workshops which will determine the Association\u2019s priorities over the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Anderson, Chief Executive at PoLHA, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe first opened our doors to tenants last year and it was a great success. We are passionate about what we do and keen to share the work we do with our tenants. It\u2019s also good to hear their thoughts on what they enjoy about their local community and if there are any improvements needing done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were also pleased to be able to get our tenants\u2019 thoughts to help shape our five year strategy. As an organisation we are committed to providing high quality, energy efficient homes in areas people want to live in and be part of community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.polha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/scottish-housing-day-2018-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of two people reading a leaflet.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Viola Jones came along to the Scottish Housing Open Doors event to find out more about sheltered housing.<\/p>\n<p>Viola moved up to Edinburgh from Knottingley to be near her daughter who she is currently staying with.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI have really enjoyed coming along today, it\u2019s been very relaxing everyone\u2019s helpful and friendly. There is lots of information here for people on services in the local community. It\u2019s been a great day, I have drank lots of tea ate lots of cake and met some really nice people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.polha.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/scottish-housing-day-2018-3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of three people having tea and cake.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We celebrated Scottish Housing Day 2018 with a Doors Open Day.","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Harbour Homes","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}