Scotland Housing Awards 2025

Aico, an Ei company, are the European market leader in home life safety, pioneering new technologies and offering high quality alarms, developed and manufactured in Ireland. All Aico alarms meet UK standards and offer a variety of sensor types to guarantee protection for every home, the cornerstone of which is delivering education, quality, service and innovation. In 2020, Aico expanded their Connected Home offering with the acquisition of leading Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, HomeLINK. HomeLINK are a multi-award-winning high-tech software team within Aico that leverage cutting edge home integration and analytic technologies to address the needs of social landlords and their residents.

Wheatley is Scotland’s leading housing, care, and property-management group, providing homes and services to around 210,000 people in 19 local authority areas. Wheatley’s partner organisations remain firmly rooted in their local communities, drawing on the Group’s strength, size, scale, and resources to contribute on a regional and national level to affordable housing, care, and community regeneration across Scotland. 

Kingdom Housing Association was established in 1979 to provide housing and support for single vulnerable people in Fife. It has since grown into one of East Central Scotland’s leading housing associations, offering safe, affordable homes and services that make a real difference.

Kingdom Housing Association is the parent organisation within the Kingdom Group, which includes:

• Kingdom Support & Care (KSC): a Community Interest Company delivering care and support services that help people live independently in their own homes
• Kingdom Initiatives (KI): a non-charitable subsidiary providing mid-market rented housing

All companies in the Kingdom Group contribute to shared objectives, supporting people, delivering essential services and helping communities thrive.

Together, the Kingdom Group delivers a diverse range of services that reflect the Group's mission to provide more than a home. These include:

• Providing high-quality, affordable and sustainable homes across a range of tenures, with wraparound services to help support customers and their families reach their potential
• Delivering personalised support services, including care at home and housing support, employability and initiatives to tackle homelessness, delivering life-changing outcomes
• Supporting communities to thrive through local initiatives, wider-role services, and collaborative working

Kingdom’s commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience is underpinned by its Values-to-Vision approach. Staff at all levels link the CARES values -  Customer, Accountable, Respect, Efficient, Supportive - with their personal objectives and development plans, right through to the Group’s long-term vision.

The Kingdom Group is an accredited Living Wage Employer.

SafeDeposits Scotland is the country’s leading tenancy deposit scheme. At no cost to either landlords or tenants, SafeDeposits Scotland ensures that deposits are securely held and protected, and that any disputes about the return of a deposit are resolved quickly and fairly. Unlike other tenancy deposit schemes, SafeDeposits is a not-for-profit organisation and donates surpluses to the SafeDeposits Scotland Charitable Trust – a grant giving charity designed to give back to Scotland’s private rented sector. SafeDeposits is also the only scheme based in Scotland, operating from its office in Glasgow city centre.

SFHA is the membership body for, and collective voice of, housing associations and co-operatives in Scotland. Representing over 90% of the housing association and co-operative sector in Scotland, we exist to represent, support and connect our members.

Our vision is that our members are central to Scotland’s social and economic recovery and renewal. It is everyone’s right to live in a safe, warm and affordable home in a thriving community. Our members are uniquely positioned as community anchors across Scotland, supporting people and their communities. Our mission is to sustain and strengthen the impact our members have on people and communities across Scotland.

Fife Council’s Housing Service manages landlord services to 31,200 houses in the kingdom, and we support and assist around 2000 homeless households each year. We are focussed on continually improving the services that we provide to our customers, which is why we prioritise access to training, further education, apprenticeships and employment opportunities through our Housing Training Academy. 

Horizon Housing Association is dedicated to providing accessible, affordable homes that empower people to live well and independently within their communities. As a Link Group partner, Horizon is committed to promoting equality through housing and comprehensive services that address diverse needs.

Housing is a basic human right, and accessible homes not only transform lives, but also promote sustainability and strengthen communities. In a time of chronic shortages of accessible housing across Scotland, celebrating innovative, life-changing, and thoughtfully designed new and retrofit accessible homes is vital.

ALACHO is the representative organisation for senior housing and homelessness professionals working in Scotland’s Councils and Health and Social Care Partnerships.

Our purpose is to provide impartial advice and comment to support the development of legislation, policy and practice in housing and homelessness nationally and locally and to promote best practice and improved outcomes from our housing at all levels. 

To achieve this, we will work with our members, tenants and service users, COSLA and the Scottish Government, the CIH, registered social landlords and other organisations in the statutory and voluntary sector to:

In all our work we will seek to develop a human rights-based approach that supports the delivery of the public sector equalities duty, reduces inequality and challenges discrimination in all areas of service delivery. 

ALACHO is a non-party political organisation, we recognise and respect the political leadership in local government, the role of COSLA as the representative voice of Scottish local Authorities and of tenants’ organisations in representing the views and interests of tenants.  In all our work we will seek to reflect the diversity of local conditions and housing systems and the varying needs of all Scotland’s communities.