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Art for Good: A closer look at our creative workshop for tenants
“It’s all about the atmosphere, encouraging each other, seeing all our capabilities – it’s the company, it’s everything.” For over five years, Homes for Good’s weekly art classes for adults have brought tenants and community members together to improve their artistic skills and build friendships, guided by our friendly and passionate art specialist, Tracy Kelly. Hidden Talents “I didn’t know I could draw or paint, do art, until I joined the art class,” says tenant Grace-Ann
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Mar 185 min read
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Tenant and Landlord Drop-in Sessions
This week, with support from Safe Deposits Scotland, we are launching our new Tenant and Landlord Drop-In Sessions at our Dumfries and Largs offices. These regular sessions give you the chance to meet our South of Scotland and Ayrshire teams to discuss a variety of tenancy matters. For our Tenants: • Understand your rights and responsibilities • Help with everyday tenancy matters • We’re happy to answer any questions you may have For our Landlords: • Updates on chan
May 6
Awards Joy!
What a week for the Homes for Good team! Barry, Joey, Andrew and Susan celebrate! We continue to be recognised for our ethical approach to creating a better housing future. On 14 November, we won the Excellence in the Private Rented Sector award at the CIH Scotland Scottish Housing Awards. Our Head of Acquisitions and Development, Barry Sweeney, was also a finalist in the Excellence in Leadership category. The previous day, Susan Aktemel received a Special Recognition 2025 aw
Nov 15, 2025
Good Place Lettings brings Homes for Good’s model to London
On Wednesday, 22 October, Good Place Lettings (GPL) welcomed friends, partners, supporters and colleagues to Euston's Impact Hub for its official launch. The event marked a milestone for GPL – a joint venture between Crisis and Homes for Good and proudly funded by Lloyds Banking Group and The National Lottery Community Fund. GPL’s mission is to help people experiencing homelessness and those on low incomes to find comfortable, affordable homes in London. Fuelling Housing Chan
Oct 24, 2025
First anniversary celebrations as our Dumfries office officially opens!
Orange balloons and a glass of fizz welcomed colleagues and supporters on the evening of Wednesday 12th February as we marked our first anniversary in the South of Scotland and the opening of our new branch right in the heart of Dumfries! Some of our team outside our new South of Scotland office in central Dumfries Celebrating a Year of Growth Andrew Richards, our lettings manager in the South of Scotland said: “It’s been brilliant to celebrate a successful first year and ref
Feb 14, 2025
Homes for Good secures £2.4m loan from Glasgow Credit Union
Funding will help to deliver more affordable homes in Glasgow. Homes for Good, Scotland’s first social enterprise lettings agency, and Glasgow Credit Union, one of the UK’s largest and most successful credit unions, have entered a groundbreaking partnership aimed at providing sustainable, high-quality housing for low-income individuals and families in Glasgow and neighbouring areas. Glasgow Credit Union has provided a £2.4 million corporate loan to Homes for Good. The investm
Nov 14, 2024
Stories From Home
Our Stories From Home photography exhibition is now open at our Hillfoot Street office in Dennistoun! In 2023, we celebrated our tenth birthday. To commemorate this milestone, we embarked on a project to tell our tenants’ stories. The result is Stories From Home, a diverse collection of vibrant stories that offer a glimpse into the lives of some of our tenants and their perspectives on ‘home’. Our Stories From Home exhibition puts our tenants centre stage Belonging and Commu
Sep 2, 2024
We've arrived in the South of Scotland
Since January 2024 we have been expanding our values led approach in Dumfries and Galloway, and the Borders supported by South of Scotland Enterprise and The National Lottery Community Fund. We cover all areas in the South of Scotland with properties under management located across the region. We manage properties throughout the entire South of Scotland region New Connections Start your journey with Homes For Good in the South of Scotland by getting in touch with the team. Wr
Aug 12, 2024
Homes for Good wins prestigious global award!
An innovative organisation in Glasgow which has transformed empty homes in the city and housed 1,000 people on low incomes into high-quality homes has won a prestigious Gold World Habitat Award. Homes for Good is a letting agency with a difference – it buys neglected homes and renovates them to a high standard, then lets them to people on low incomes. It has helped hundreds of people on low incomes or at immediate risk of homelessness live somewhere which is affordable to the
Jan 4, 2023
Scottish housing chief sets out challenges facing sector
By Scott Wright, Deputy Business Editor, The Herald. This article was first published in The Herald. The newspaper article is linked here. HOMES for Good has entered 2022 with confidence after safely negotiating the slings and arrows of the pandemic thus far. But there can be little doubt that, between a much-publicised housing shortage and proposed legislation to shake up the private letting sector, the social enterprise is facing a challenging environment as the new year un
Jan 12, 2022
Homes for Good secures £3.5m to buy dozens of properties
By Scott Reid This article was published in The Scotsman The cash injection is the second made by Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC) in Homes for Good, which will use the funds to purchase up to 50 properties in Glasgow and the west of Scotland for people unable to access social housing, or who are at risk of homelessness. The properties will be bought and refurbished to give tenants safe, affordable, and secure homes. Those tenants will also be able to access ongoing sup
Dec 18, 2021
Homes for Good welcomes Big Issue Invest as new partner in £3m deal
Big Issue Invest signs its largest SEIF II investment to date of £3 million. Deal allows Homes for Good investor Impact Ventures UK (IVUK) to successfully exit ahead of plan. Exit believed to be one of the first and largest social investment exits on record. Alice Simpson, Susan Aktemel and Kara Reid A ground-breaking social business group which provides high quality social housing has secured £3 million of investment from Big Issue Invest (BII), allowing early stage investo
Oct 2, 2020
All-female senior management team at the helm of an award-winning social property business group
Homes for Good, Scotland’s first social enterprise letting agency, has celebrated International Womens’s Day (Sunday March 8) by unveiling its all-female senior management team, as part of its ambitious growth plans to grow to 1000 homes within the next four years. Back row: Susan Aktemel, Kara Reid, Karen Leigh Anderson; Front row: Joey Lawrie, Lorna Wyllie, Alice Simpson The Homes for Good (HFG) group, Scotland’s only private sector lettings agency specialising in providin
Mar 11, 2020
Homes For Good wins Excellence in the Private Rented Sector award
Homes for Good has won the Excellence in the Private Rented Sector award in The CIH Scotland Excellence Awards and our founder Susan Aktemel was also shortlisted in the Excellence in Leadership and Outstanding Contribution to Housing categories. The Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and individuals across the housing sector in Scotland. Our subsidiary Homes for Good Glasgow has also been nominated for Soc
Nov 4, 2019
£2.4m boost for social enterprise
This article was written by Gareth Jones and originally published on Third Force News A social enterprise which helps vulnerable Scots access quality housing is set to expand across the UK. Scottish property management social enterprise Homes for Good (HFG) has been awarded £2.4 million in National Lottery funding. The social enterprise specialises in supporting people with limited housing choices including those who are homeless, on benefits or low incomes. The social enterp
Sep 16, 2019
£10,000 Cambridge prize for ‘achievement and ambition’ in social enterprise
This article was originally published by the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School The inaugural Cambridge Social Innovation Prize, awarded by Trinity Hall and the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, highlights the positive social impact made by businesses across the UK, backed by a generous donation from Graham Ross Russell, an alum of Trinity Hall and an early leader in business incubation and social
Aug 16, 2019
Susan Aktemel recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 changemakers
Thanks Big Issue for recognising our Director, Susan Aktemel, as one of the UK’s top 100 changemakers. We have a lot going on at Homes for Good & Susan is keeping all the team on our toes as we continue to grow. Read all about it here.
Jul 17, 2019
Our new home in Bridgeton
Good morning from our new base in Bridgeton. We’ve transformed two shop units and will reveal more with coverage from our official opening on Tuesday the 31st of January 2017. Our tenant support hub One unit is home to our business headquarters, and in the other, we have created the first dedicated private rented sector tenants’ support hub in Scotland. Here, we will welcome both our own tenants and the wider community to access support and advice from our team and partners.
Jan 31, 2017
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