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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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People are at their best when faced with adversity

Lee Peyton founded Breaking Strain Events with business partner Garry Mackay and has helped raise £1m for charity

https://tfn.scot/opinion/people-are-at-their-best-when-faced-with-adversity

Self-directed support marks a new dawn for social care

From 1 April, Scottish people have the legal right to control their own social care budget, a move that impacts on clients and care staff alike

https://tfn.scot/features/a-new-dawn-for-social-care

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

Digital checkup in charts

the benefits of a cloud-based collaboration platform like Microsoft’s Office 365 or Google Workspace. 2.,An overwhelming majority of organisations are doing a lot of video calls.,Funding, resources and time feature strongly, but so do knowledge and confidence., organisations complete our digital checkup, they have the option to book a free one-to-one support call,This has given us a rich source of fine-grained data on what challenges people are currently facing. 

https://scvo.scot/p/44582/2021/08/03/digital-checkup-in-charts

Third sector visions for a Scotland of the future

[x] Funding is being pulled out of the Scottish economy as a result of the current programme of welfare,That may make the challenge of creating a more progressive system greater, but not insurmountable.,Even in the event of a ‘no’ vote and given the challenges outlined above, the third sector must fight,More Excuses – Danson and Trebeck (Jimmy Reid Foundation, 2013) [iv] http://www.oxfam.org.uk/scotland/blog,www.cpag.org.uk/sites/default/files/CPAG-local-authorities-child-pov-0713-amended_0.pdf, especially Part 2

https://scvo.scot/p/1364/2013/11/25/third-sector-visions-for-a-scotland-of-the-future

It’s time to step up our role in Scotland’s publicly-owned investment bank

the Bank in its first 10 years, with existing initiatives – such as the Building Scotland’s Future Fund,Mission-led investment A ‘mission-oriented’ approach will steer the Bank’s investments, making it a £2,At the very least, they must be driven by the Bank’s vision and Scotland’s national challenges as featured,Based on this vision, we have identified a number of priority areas where we are calling for changes,Our next blog will analyse how Stage One of the Bill process is progressing – the deadline for Stage

https://scvo.scot/p/31501/2019/06/13/its-time-to-step-up-our-role-in-scotlands-publicly-owned-investment-bank

The effectiveness of the self-regulation of fundraising in Scotland: an informal review

Gaining an accurate picture of fundraising in Scotland is challenging.,The Terms of Reference are included in Appendix 2.,These include telephone calls, street sign up, doorstep sign up, telephone calling and direct mail.,It will focus on four key areas: the extent and nature of practices adopted by call centres raising funds,(blog) [8] From OSCR’s Scottish Charity Surveys 2014 [9] As above [10] Rapidata (2015) Rapidata announces

https://scvo.scot/p/10161/2015/09/23/the-effectiveness-of-the-self-regulation-of-fundraising-in-scotland-an-informal-review

SCVO response to Scottish Government Enterprise and Skills consultation

With a collective budget of £2 billion per year, it is pivotal that Scotland’s skills agencies are providing,Engender have recently called for a £50m Women’s Employment and Enterprise Challenge Fund to help reduce,The Challenge Fund will also be reopening soon, supporting existing projects and encouraging new projects,We acknowledge that this is a challenge given that the education system is tasked with producing skills,Conclusion There are numerous challenges and opportunities within the skills and enterprise system in

https://scvo.scot/p/13860/2016/08/15/scvo-response-to-scottish-government-enterprise-and-skills-consultation

SCVO response to Scottish Parliament Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee

A blog entitled Future of the Funds was set up by the Managing Authority (MA) to inform people but it,It seems to be an impediment to projects coming through some challenge funds under ERDF and it is a widespread,This was the whole basis for moving from a challenge fund model to a partnership model so as to avoid,SCVO is the lead applicant of a consortium bid to the “National Third Sector Challenge Fund” administered,Whilst the delays in getting this programme to “open calls” stage was outrageous (almost two years) it

https://scvo.scot/p/25068/2018/04/13/scvo-response-to-scottish-parliament-economy-jobs-and-fair-work-committee

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

around new tax powers and this, alongside political dynamics and long-term demographic change, is a challenge,And how can we make sure that the new Poverty and Inequality Commission[2] has a remit to be involved,behind any taxation system – which we have often repeated (see, for example, here: http://www.scvo.scot/blog,(b) Should we be calling for human rights based budgeting, as in Vermont?,Appendix [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40429196 [2] http://www.gov.scot

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