Castle Rock Edinvar is one of Scotland's leading housing associations and a Scottish Charity.

We own or manage 6000 homes and work with over 8000 customers across 8 local authority areas - working closely with 2 subsidiary companies to achieve our vision.

This year we've invested £0.5 million in regeneration projects and £22 million in new homes. We take a strong leadership and business approach in everything we do.

As well as a strong business ethos we're an ethically minded green organisation - tackling environmental challenges through our energy strategy.

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Our vision
How we're regulated
Awards and accreditiations
History

Our vision

Our vision is to provide aspirational homes and inspirational places. We achieve this by:

• providing outstanding housing and property management services
• putting the customer at the heart of everything we do
• increasing housing choices through a range of tenure opportunities
• developing person-centred services which offer specialist care and support, such as our services for older people and those who need financial help
• ensuring our existing neighbourhoods are successful places
• demonstrating our commitment to placemaking by focusing future development activity on large scale sites owned by Places for People.

How we are regulated

We're committed to achieving high standards. We're regulated by the Scottish Housing Regulator.

Awards and accreditations

• We were awarded a B grade overall in our most recent inspection by the Scottish Housing Regulator.
• Our services were awarded Customer Service Excellence - the UK Government's Standard - in 2010
• We are accredited with Investors in People
• Our Financial Inclusion Team is an Accredited Information and Advice Provider (Scottish National Standards).

We were finalists in a number of awards in 2011:

• Scottish Home Awards 2011: Large Housing Association of the Year
• Chartered Institute of Housing Sustainable Housing Awards 2011
• Social Housing Provider of the Year: Corporate Sustainability Award
• Social Housing Provider of the Year: Innovative Approach to Green Homes Award
• Chartered Institute of Housing UK Housing Awards 2011: Outstanding Achievement in Housing in Scotland Preventing Financial Exclusion.

History

Castle Rock Edinvar is an amalgamation of three organisations, Edinvar Housing Association, Castle Rock Housing Association and Capital City Homes.

• Castle Rock was formed in 1968
• Edinvar was formed in 1973
• Capital City Homes was formed as a subsidiary of Places for People in 2001.

Edinvar joined the Places for People Group as a subsidiary in 2001. Castle Rock transferred engagement to Edinvar in August 2005 and the name of Edinvar was changed to Castle Rock Edinvar.