NORTH BERWICK COLTS CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR WITH CALA HOMES

CALA Homes has agreed a deal to sponsor North Berwick Colts during the football club’s 20th anniversary year, providing training tops for the club’s youngsters.

The teams, comprising of children from North Berwick and the surrounding areas in the P3 to P6 school years, gather weekly to train at the club’s North Berwick facilities. Each year, they play in a number of matches, tournaments and festivals, competing against other teams fromEast Lothian

Sarah Stanger, Sales and Marketing Director for CALA Homes (East), said: “Now in its 20th year, North Berwick Colts is a great community group for North Berwick and the surrounding areas, and CALA is proud to support its young people.”

Douglas Hamilton, Chairman at North Berwick Colts, said: “Our young playersare a central part of the club and the wider community, and CALA’s sponsorship will no doubt encourage their commitment and involvement in the club as we look to the future.”

CALA’sGilsland Grange – a development of 37 detached four and five bedroom homes in the popular East Lothian coastal town, forms part of the first significant development of family homes in North Berwick for almost 10 years.

The Gilsland Grange showhomes are open daily from 11am until 5.30pm. For more information, call 01620 671969 or visit

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Issued on behalf of CALA Homes by Weber Shandwick. For more information, contact Sarah Crowther or Jennifer Butler on 0131 556 6649 or

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Photographs

North Berwick Colts FC 04: (L-R) Gabriel Pearce, Jack Hamilton, Thomas Hart, Jonathan Mostyn, Fraser Street, Michael Hart

North Berwick Colts FC 07: (L-R) Jonathan Mostyn, Thomas Hart, Gabriel Pearce, Michael Hart, Fraser Street, Jack Hamilton

Notes to Editors

CALA Homes, part of the CALA Group, is the UK’s most upmarket major home builder operating in the South of England, the Midlands and Scotland. The company focuses on high quality, well-designed homes in prime locations, from starter homes to luxury detached family properties.

Key Facts:

  • In March 2013, CALA announced that it had reached an agreement with Patron Capital Partners, the private equity group, and Legal & General Group, the insurance, savings and investment management company, under which they acquired the CALA Group, valuing the company at £214.2m.
  • In its full year results for the year ending 30June 2013, CALA announced record profits of £12.5m (2012: £9.1m) on a like-for-like basis driven by improved house sales gross margin of 18.8% (2012: 16.4%).
  • CALA Homes builds around 850 properties each year.
  • CALA’s average selling price (ASP), as at 30th June 2013, was £335,000 – the highest ASP outside London of any housebuilder in the top 20 by volume, thanks to the Group’s market positioning and geographic presence in more affluent areas of the UK.
  • As at 30th June 2013, CALA’s land bank stood at 10,016 plots with a potential gross development value of £3.2bn, equivalent to approximately 7.2 years’ output on current projections.
  • CALA Homes won Housebuilder of the Year, Best Medium Housebuilder and Best House at the 2012 What House? Awards. In 2013, it.retained the Gold award for Best Medium Housebuilder and won Best Development for Trinity Park in Edinburgh
  • In March 2013, CALA Homes received the maximum 5 Star rating in the Home Builder Federation’s National New Homes Customer Satisfaction Survey for the fourth consecutive year.
  • Health and safety is of paramount importance to CALA. In 2013, the company maintained its low number of minor injuries reportable under RIDDOR recording six and has reported no major injuries in the last five years. Over the course of the last five years CALA has had the lowest average annual incidence rate of any housebuilder in the HBF benchmark of companies.