ANCHO’s newly refurbished Community Link Project Hub is being relaunched as home to our Financial Inclusion Service on Monday 3 February 2014.  The whole community is invited to be our guests at our open day between 12.30pm and 2.30pm where they can enjoy some refreshments, meet other local residents and learn more about what our Financial Inclusion Service is about. And joining us will be Margaret Burgess, Minister for Housing and Welfare, who is coming along to see what it’s all about, along with a sprinkling of other Members of Parliament, and North Ayrshire Council Elected Members and officers.   The CLP Hub is at 42A Hunter Drive, Irvine.  
 
Director, Elaine Gibson, said, ‘We are delighted to have been awarded funding from both the Big Lottery and the Scottish Government to expand our Financial Inclusion Service to provide Smart Budgeting Workshops for local residents struggling to manage their finances in these difficult times, and to continue our Employability Service because of its excellent track record of assisting local people into employment through Job Clubs, CV preparation and other support.  We thought The Hub deserved a facelift so that these services could be provided in nicer surroundings.’

Chair, Jackie Browne, said, ‘ANCHO’s Management Board is extremely pleased at the continued success of the organisation. We have always seen ourselves as positive contributors to the communities we work in – and achieving funding awards like this one shows us we are on the right lines.’

ANCHO is a Registered Social Landlord with charitable status based in Irvine.  

As part of our overall Asset Management approach, we wish to procure an experienced gas contractor for the provision of a 3 star annual testing and reactive repairs contract within our domestic properties.  The contract will be for an initial 3 year period.

At this stage we are seeking notes of interest from suitably qualified and experienced contractors.

Key requirements are:

1. Recent first hand experience of successfully delivering testing and reactive maintenance for a similar sized RSL. Please note,  examples will require to be provided and references maybe taken up by ANCHO.
   
2. Provision of a first class reporting method, ideally with real time electronic reporting and centralised database accessible by ANCHO.
   
3. A track record of excellent tenant and client liaison.
   

If your company is interested in tendering for this work, please register your interest in writing to mail@ancho.co.uk by 12.00 noon on Friday 24th January 2014.