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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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Holyrood 2021: what the voluntary sector wants

TFN's guide to charity election manifestos

https://tfn.scot/news/holyrood-2021-what-the-voluntary-sector-wants

Developing this website

It's like a time machine to the early days of the world wide web.,Political animals Focus on current affairs activity – welfare cuts, public service reform, referendum,Rolling out Good HQ as a trust and engagement platform for the sector.,Existing blog posts would be ported over to keep a history of what has been published and to allow for,Bringing it all together We set about designing landing pages for each of the key areas that have a top-level

https://scvo.scot/p/24481/2018/01/31/developing-this-website

What are the Scottish Government and Parliament’s Tax and Spending Options?

The Christie commission concluded its work 6 years ago, and yet we are still far from public service reform,behind any taxation system – which we have often repeated (see, for example, here: http://www.scvo.scot/blog,/tax-time/) – there are specific taxes that we could look to.,Tax options Land value and property taxes: Housing has become an increasingly important element of wealth,Therefore, we need to tax land and property as well as income.

https://scvo.scot/p/22923/2017/12/13/what-are-the-scottish-government-and-parliaments-tax-and-spending-options

Key promises show the sector can deliver the change Scotland needs

Regardless of whether you think they were good policies, you can’t deny that scrapping tuition fees and,However, there are plenty wondering where the time to introduce these will come from – particularly when,Justice Reforms to be introduced to protect victims and support services to help families bereaved by,Community Land The Community Land fund will continue to support community land purchases through a £10,million per year Scottish Land Fund.

https://scvo.scot/p/25962/2018/09/05/key-promises-show-the-sector-can-deliver-the-change-scotland-needs

Right Approach Campaign: July - December 2016

rights under threat in the UK SCVO began preparing the Right Approach campaign in January 2016 at a time,All the campaign material is stored on a landing page on the SCVO website.,This includes Good HQ, which encourages users to share stories about their human rights experiences with,the campaign with the Policy Officer’s Network Sep-16 Discussed human rights campaign with Electoral Reform,It was also good to do something a bit more creative (the podcast specifically) which allowed for different

https://scvo.scot/p/14613/2017/02/28/right-approach-campaign-july-december-2016

SCVO response to Building Community Wealth consultation (Scottish Government)

fulfil the role of an anchor organisation by employing local people, delivering services, and purchasing goods,Volunteers must be properly supported to engage with Community Asset Transfer and ownership to advance the land,Time is a very important factor in enabling such supportive relationships.,there ways in which the law could be changed which are not already covered in the proposals for the Land,Reform Bill to advance the land and property pillar of Community Wealth Building?

https://scvo.scot/p/59630/2023/05/15/scvo-response-to-building-community-wealth-consultation-scottish-government

Let's resolve to think differently about volunteering

Minister’s comment “stick to your knitting” - our response to which resulted in SCVO’s most popular blog,Land reform and community empowerment bill and participatory budgeting immediately spring to mind.,Meal Makers is a great example of sharing for social good – although perhaps in the past this could have,Good Gym is another - keeping fit while helping others.

https://scvo.scot/p/7527/2015/01/09/lets-resolve-to-think-differently-about-volunteering

Smith Commission - SCVO interim response

the franchise being extended to 16 and 17 year olds - something which has been supported for a long time,in relation to such goods and services, would give Scotland the opportunity to simplify the current,Community Land Scotland and other third sector organisations also gave evidence to the Committee seeking,References [i] https://storage.googleapis.com/scvo-cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/welfare-reform-mapping-report2,.pdf [ii] http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-blogs/tfn-blogs/equality-law-should-be-devolved [iii] http

https://scvo.scot/p/6295/2014/10/10/smith-commission-scvo-interim-response