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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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Membership

Please sign up for one of our upcoming events.,directory Our latest members Leuchie House We talked to Colin Leslie, communications and marketing manager,The biggest challenges we’re facing at the moment are recruitment, and the financial crises around cost-of-living,Cancer Support Scotland We talked to Stephanie Quigley, service manager with Cancer Support Scotland,therapy volunteer team lead by our national award-winning therapist have created a bespoke treatment plan

https://scvo.scot/membership

SCVO Impact Report 2021/22

tackling the climate emergency, how to improve equality, diversity and inclusion, how to mitigate our own financial,SCVO Scottish Parliament event Hosted by Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP, we organised this well-attended event,group Gold Strategic Group on Ukraine Scottish Government’s group on Successor to EU funding Community Planning,Community navigators supported people to develop wellbeing plans, connecting them to activities in their,380 380 community and voluntary organisations engaged with SCVO’s role was to manage communications,

https://scvo.scot/about/work/impact-2021-22

Coronavirus advice for volunteers

George Thomson gives practical guidance on the health and wellbeing of volunteers

https://tfn.scot/opinion/coronavirus-advice-for-volunteers

We are beyond the eleventh hour

Here we ask four experts in the fight against climate catastrophe what they think has been achieved since Cop26 in Glasgow.

https://tfn.scot/features/we-are-beyond-the-eleventh-hour

20 inspiring Scottish social entrepreneurs

Some of them have been around for decades, others are barely out of school, but TFN believes all 20 of

https://tfn.scot/lists/20-inspiring-social-entrepreneurs

SCVO response to the inquiry into Public Administration – Effective Scottish Government decision-making (Finance & Public Administration Committee)

Organisational Profiles, page 9 ‘We have really good relations with the civil servants we work with.,with the third sector’.Organisational Profiles, page 9 Greater understanding of the voluntary sector,, and we still managed to do it quickly and efficiently.,It is important that more events and activities of this nature are organised to explain how to engage,The benefits of delivering any public policy result in financial and other costs elsewhere.

https://scvo.scot/p/57213/2023/02/16/scvo-response-to-the-inquiry-into-public-administration-effective-scottish-government-decision-making

Coronavirus and its impact on the Scottish Voluntary Sector: a review of literature

To date the top parent themes are people management, financial challenges, and the future of the voluntary,and flexibility in filing or reporting deadlines (45%) were thought to be the most helpful kind of non-funding,sector has fallen from +4 in April 2020 to -3 in August, and that 28% of voluntary sector respondents plan,to make job cuts, a significant increase of 11 percentage points from April, see figure 9.,SenScot published a report, Social Enterprise Reset Week: Impact Report, that captured the outcomes from events

https://scvo.scot/p/40369/2020/09/17/coronavirus-and-its-impact-on-the-scottish-voluntary-sector-a-review-of-literature

Cost of living crisis: SCVO and Volunteer Scotland briefing for MPs

SCVO has called for the Energy Bills Relief Scheme for voluntary sector non-domestic customers to be,crisis, with the Charities Aid Foundation’s (CAF) UK Giving tracker reporting that nearly one in 10 (9%,It is vital that we are able to realise the ambitions set out in the Volunteering Action Plan, published,Whilst this plan was published by the Scottish Government, it reaches far wider than devolved issues,anyone looking for volunteer opportunitiessupport organisations to advertise volunteer opportunities and events

https://scvo.scot/p/55743/2022/11/29/cost-of-living-crisis-scvo-and-volunteer-scotland-briefing-for-mps

Scotland’s social care sector: The financial evidence that is driving change

Plan Bs!,so why they will continue to look to their 3rd sector providers to manage some of their financial pain,uncertainty that all providers need to plan for in the event local authorities seek to continue to need,Non-domestic rates income is classified as AME (Annually Managed Expenditure). [2] Extended analysis,Non-domestic rates income is classified as AME (Annually Managed Expenditure). [4] The organisations

https://scvo.scot/p/15373/2017/05/23/scotlands-social-care-sector-the-financial-evidence-that-is-driving-change

A new democracy for Scotland: Discussion paper by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

This closed-door decision-making process prevents politicians from active engagement in wider, non-partisan,to engage in planning.,There needs to be serious financial investment from Government to back up the verbal support of such,The sector manages an income of £5 billion.,Got To Do With It, 2010. http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/whats-trust-got-to-do-with-it/ [8] Ibid. [9]

https://scvo.scot/p/6723/2014/11/14/a-new-democracy-for-scotland-discussion-paper-by-the-scottish-council-for-voluntary-organisations