This month marks a centenary of council housing, after the watershed Addison Act came into force across the UK in 1919. The legislation was meant to create Liberal PM Lloyd George’s “homes fit for heroes”, to house the returning soldiers from World War One. His...
We are adding to our team of 50 volunteers and the recruitment is now open. Process is a short informal interview for us to find out about each other, one full days induction training then shadowing our amazing support workers till you are confident to fly solo. We...
'Common Ground' peer support group launches Mutual Aid drop in Rowan Alba is proud to have spent the last 6 months supporting Common Ground in developing into an independent, peer led, mutual support group for people experiencing homelessness. All Common Ground...
Rowan Alba’s Website gets an upgrade Rowan Alba’s website recently got redeveloped, thanks to Edinburgh-based creative agency Whitespace. Whitespace generously donated 4 days of pro-bono work to help with the user experience and development of the...
Rowan Alba’s Learning Centre is open After a hugely successful ‘pilot year’ Rowan Learning Centre, our new Social Enterprise, is expanding its delivery of the SVQ3 in Social Services and Healthcare and ILM Level 3 Coaching Award. Over the last year we have...
