We are delighted to have been able to work with veterans Keith Smith and Ian Young to help prepare the Scottish Veterans Residences Bowling Green for the 2025 season. Our team spent time ensuring the green is looking its best and can continue to be used by Veterans. Well done team!

TRAC HLM at the Scottish Parliament have made another donation of old rope to the Edinburgh Cat and Dog Home. The 1000 metres of rope will be used to make dog toys and leads.

Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home give their all to keeping loving homes whole and keeping pets where they belong – with their families. Where this is not possible, they take the animals in and do their best to find loving homes for them in East and Central Scotland. Their small but dedicated team are united by an unconditional love of animals. They are dedicated to keeping pets and owners together in loving homes and offer support to make this possible. For more info visit https://edch.org.uk/

An excellent example of sustainability and repurposing of items that otherwise would have been destined for landfill and all for a worthy cause! Thanks to our colleague Peppe for delivering the rope.

Staff at the Scottish Parliament have been busy transforming old oak poles, removed by TRAC HLM from the Parliament building into unique works of art.

These skilled and imaginative individuals have repurposed the old oak poles that once adorned the building’s exterior into beautiful upcycled creations, giving this 20-year-old architectural material a fresh, new purpose.

In collaboration with social enterprise, the Parliament has produced one-of-a-kind wooden gifts from these poles, now available in the Holyrood gift shop. A big congratulations to all the staff at Scottish Parliament involved for showcasing sustainability and creativity!

Two TRAC HLM staff, Mikey Patterson and Gary Fletcher, feature in a new BBC Documentary Series, The Secret Lives of Lighthouse Keepers.

Filmmaker Chris McMillan spent a month in May this year filming the Northern Lighthouse Board teams as they go about their work maintaining the lighthouses round the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.

Mikey and Gary feature when the crew arrive at Cape Wrath lighthouse, on the most north westerly tip of Scotland, where we were dealing with some water ingress on the lighthouse.

The programme provides a rare insight into the work, and the challenges faced, in maintaining the lighthouses.

The episode will be broadcast in October but is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer – https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00225h0/our-lives-series-8-8-the-secret-lives-of-lighthouse-keepers.

TRAC HLM Ltd recently sponsored the local Whitburn Juniors football team by purchasing and donating their home kit.

Lets hope it helps them reach top of the league!