Castlehill Achieves Gold Healthy Working Lives Award
One year on from its success at the Silver Award
level, and just two years after achieving the Bronze Award,
Castlehill Housing Association has now achieved the Gold Award.
This was presented at a formal awards ceremony in Aberdeen on 16th
November 2011.
To achieve the award, staff took part in a wide
range of activities and attended information and advice sessions
on various health topics.
Notable staff activities this year included
entering a team for the second year running in Aberdeen's
Inter-Company Rowing Event on the river Dee. 
Also in 2011, Castlehill
took part in the 12 week Paths4All pedometer/step counting
challenge, with 45 individuals participating – a significant
number for an organisation of the size of Castlehill – and three
members of staff clocking up more than one million steps each.
David Lappin,
Castlehill’s Chief Executive said: "We are extremely proud to
receive the Gold award and to be the first organisation
of
our type in the North East to do so. All staff involved have
worked hard to gain the award but hopefully have enjoyed taking
part in the range of events and activities we've organised along
the way. It's been a very worthwhile exercise and we look
forward to maintaining our Gold status!"
The Healthy Working Lives
Award, launched in 2007 to replace the Scotland’s Health at Work
Award, is designed to promote healthier and safer workplaces and
support the implementation of successful safety and health and
employment policies and practices.
Full
details of the award can be found at www.healthyworkinglives.com
Castlehill HA consortium wins TPAS award!
A partnership of seven housing organisations
throughout Scotland (Angus, Castlehill, Dunedin Canmore,
Grampian, Langstane and Link Housing Associations and Tenants
First Housing Co-operative) is celebrating the win of a best
practice award for their new entertaining DVD designed to give
tenants all the help they need to settle into their homes.
Presented by the Tenant Participation Advisory
Service Scotland (TPAS), the award recognised the DVD, entitled
"Welcome to your new home" as an initiative that involves all by
reaching groups who might otherwise feel excluded. Through
animation, language translations and English subtitles, "Welcome
to your new home" addresses a range of equalities issues and
appeals to a large audience including younger people.
The DVD presents key information tenants need
when moving into their home in an entertaining and easy to
understand manner. From how to report repairs and pay rent to
getting involved in the community it is a helpful guide for all
new tenants.
It is being used by housing staff to complement
the process of letting homes by simplifying many of the terms in
the Scottish Secure Tenancy Agreement.
Endorsed by the Scottish Federation of Housing
Associations and the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland,
the DVD has been developed to be generic and relevant to any
area of the country and there is an opportunity for the DVD to
be purchased by other housing associations in Scotland.
Mally Graveson, Director of Heehaw Digital (DVD
production company) said "This was a brilliant project to work
on and it was great to be involved with a group of
forward-thinking housing organisations."
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