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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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Charities join forces with TheLADbible for mental health campaign

​Three month campaign aims to get young men talking about depression with data collected past on to charities

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-join-forces-with-theladbible-for-mental-health-campaign

The 3am brainstorm

Charlotte Bray discovers the mind of a fundraiser is ready to find solutions in all sorts of dilemmas

https://tfn.scot/opinion/creative-approaches-to-problem-solving

Four in five Scots trust charities

survey of public attitudes to charity has found that Scots have more faith in charities than people in the,rest of the UK do

https://tfn.scot/news/scots-trust-charities-more-than-the-english-and-welsh

SCVO response to the Finance and Public Administration Committee's National Performance Framework inquiry

Government should consider the Social Renewal Advisory Board’s recommendation that the NPF becomes a live,promoted the inquiry to our members and look forward to participating in the committee’s informal evidence gathering,In announcing the inquiry to the Scottish Parliament on 1 March, the Convenor mentioned that in his blog,The report goes on to outline how organisations across all parts of society – including design authorities,their lives: belonging, confidence and connections, making contributions and participating.

https://scvo.scot/p/49998/2022/04/14/scvo-response-to-the-finance-committee-inquiry-national-performance-framework-ambitions-into-action

The war on the Commonweal: taking a stand in 2014

At that time, not only did she and many other families in Scotland have to live in horrible damp housing,not taken the full medicine – we have hung onto our NHS with more determination - the relentless push goes,Half of those on benefits are the working poor whose employees do not provide a living wage.,Once the inevitabilities are challenged, we begin gathering our resources for a journey of hope.”[18],Research Unit London School of Economics and Political Science June 2012 [15] http://www.democracynow.org/blog

https://scvo.scot/p/2963/2014/01/08/the-war-on-the-commonweal-taking-a-stand-in-2014

How See Me benefited from taking a digital risk

In the second of our charity leaders blog series, Lisa Cohen from See Me explains what happened when,The team at Something Something came up with the concept of #myunfilteredlife which goes against the,Will it gather energy and momentum? Will it get a reaction?,when social media is used well, it is a fantastic way for those of us who are feeling isolated and living,follwing the #myunfilteredlife tag, follow Seemescotland on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and start living

https://scvo.scot/p/13771/2016/10/03/how-see-me-scotland-benefited-from-taking-a-digital-risk

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

We live in an era where people feel increasingly empowered to challenge institutions and authorities.,Qualitative evidence was gathered through an online survey which elicited more than seven hundred and,include UK charities, but it should be noted that a substantial amount of Scottish individual giving goes,However, the evidence that has been gathered is sufficient to identify the following improvements to,(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