Marianne Campbell

Albyn Housing Society Ltd.

Albyn Housing Society (AHS) serves an ever-growing number of communities in the Highlands, providing good quality, affordable housing for thousands of people across the region. AHS began in 1973 by building homes for the incoming workers at Invergordon smelter. The 1980s saw AHS building to complement local authority housing in six District Council areas. In the 1990s 400 properties and tenants joined the Society by voluntary transfer from Scottish Homes. Partnership working with The Highland Council (and others) has been a major feature of the early years of the 21st century, producing significant new provision. AHS now has over 3,000 properties in management in 80 communities across the Highlands. From origins of a handful of staff the Society now has 90 employees and two offices; the registered office in Invergordon and a second office in Inverness. AHS seeks to perform well as a customer-focused, innovative and equal-opportunities based business. We aim to exceed the performance standards required by The Scottish Housing Regulator and the auditors contracted to undertake internal and external audits of our activities. AHS is dedicated to building homes and supporting communities in the Highlands and is doing so in a way which puts quality, affordability and sustainability at the forefront of its efforts, by recognising the wider impact of housing for the people of the Highlands. Appropriately, significant investment goes into ensuring that tenants with changing needs can remain in their homes through adaptations. AHS has 2 wholly owned subsidiaries, Albyn Enterprises Limited which focuses on innovation projects and Fund raising for specific project, for instance help with Universal Credit funded by Big Lottery, and Highland Residential (Inverness) Limited whose activities include factoring services to owner occupiers, estate agencies services and marketing and administering various home ownership initiatives for the Scottish Government.