{"id":7746,"date":"2024-07-31T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2024-08-01T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:43:07","slug":"custom-built-house-for-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/custom-built-house-for-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom-built house for young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new custom-built house in north Edinburgh for care-experienced young people has been officially opened. We partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deanandcauvin.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dean and Cauvin Young People&#8217;s Trust<\/a> (Scotland&#8217;s oldest children&#8217;s charity) to build the house with CCG (Scotland) Ltd as the main contractor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7748\" src=\"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/1-Official-opening-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of group gathering at official opening of the house.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dean and Cauvin Young People\u2019s Trust have served the children and young people of Edinburgh since 1733. Their new house will provide a home for young people aged 15-21. Five young people will have their own en-suite rooms, a range of shared living and wellbeing spaces and gardens. Dean and Cauvin&#8217;s dedicated staff will work with each young person to help them on those first steps towards adulthood, education and work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7752\" src=\"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/IMG_6749-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of Heather and Gary in the kitchen.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary Dewar CEO of Dean and Cauvin Young People\u2019s Trust said: \u201c<\/strong>Our new house in north Edinburgh is the result of many years of close collaboration with our colleagues at Harbour Homes. We aspired to create a vibrant and welcoming \u2018place of hope\u2019 where young people are valued, part of their community and helped to take the next steps in their lives. Today marks the start of an exciting new chapter for Dean and Cauvin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jaslin Bhagrath, Chair of the Dean and Cauvin Young People\u2019s Trust Board said:<\/strong> \u201cWe are a proudly local charity, and our new house is an investment in our city and in our ambition for young people. This could not have been possible without the hard work of our staff, Board members and young people and with the additional help of independent funders and community members who contributed time, money and passion to help us realise this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heather Kiteley, Chief Executive at Harbour Homes said:<\/strong> \u201cWe have enjoyed collaborating with Dean and Cauvin on this custom-built house which five young people will soon call home. There is a real sense of excitement after the opening, and I look forward to seeing how this new Edinburgh community thrives in months and years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new custom-built house in north Edinburgh for care-experienced young people has been officially opened.","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7747,"comment_status":"open","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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homes"],"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\/7746","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=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7758,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions\/7758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}