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Graphic Showing Some Stats For MainStreet At 10 Years Old

We are 10!

It’s sneaked up on us a little bit but MainStreet turns 10 years old today. The team here will be celebrating with a wee party later, and we’ll reflect on what’s been achieved in that time. A lot of that…

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MainStreet’s charity donations 2022

At this time of year, MainStreet donates a few thousand pounds to a range of charities. Please consider supporting these charities too. This year, our chosen beneficiaries are: Shelter: The economic difficulties facing the country are also exacerbating homelessness problems –…

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“If not now, when?”

Now read the full Independent Review Of Adult Social Care in Scotland report. Congratulations to Derek Feeley and his team - it’s a great piece of work. The proposal for a National Care Service will get most of the publicity…

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Charitable donations

As we do every year, the MainStreet team set aside a chunk of money to give to charity at Christmas. In 2020 that seemed more important than ever – the work that voluntary organisations have done during the COVID19 pandemic…

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Community resilience…and data

There have been some amazing COVID19 responses across the region… In July and early August, the MainStreet team supported the Data-Driven Innovation Initiative (part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal) and colleagues from the Scottish Futures…

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What is the magic number?

MainStreet has worked with some big housing associations and some small housing associations. So we were very interested in recent articles in Scottish Housing News by Martin Armstrong, CEO of the Wheatley Group and David Bookbinder, Director of the Glasgow…

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