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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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#NeverMoreNeeded

About Over the past year Scotland’s voluntary sector has been never more needed and never more stretched,That’s why SCVO is part of the UK-wide #NeverMoreNeeded campaign - to help remind government, funders,We recently worked with Media Co-op, Penumbra, Home Start, Food Train, Cornerstone, Scouts Scotland and,look: https://youtu.be/dKwzktQAPUE Find out more about the people featured in our film!,Download social media assets Watch our campaign webinars and events

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed

#NeverMoreNeeded Resources

Best practice for funders SCVO is working with funders to support a collaborative, aligned response to,How businesses can support charities Scottish society needs a thriving voluntary sector to support people,when they need it most and so do Scottish businesses.,Here are some ideas about how to support charity or community partners through coronavirus and beyond,coronavirus and can continue to provide essential services for people when they need it.

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/resources

Voluntary sector organisations

on your/your organisation's accountUploading an audio or video diaryPosting photos of some of the work

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/stories/voluntary-sector-organisations

Coronavirus Third Sector Information Hub

million pages were viewed in the two years from March 2020- March 2022 The most popular content was about,awards and monitoring of grants Traffic and queries received through the hub gave us insights into needs,Never more needed SCVO is part of the UK-wide #NeverMoreNeeded campaign – to help remind government,,We worked with Media Co-op, Penumbra, Home Start, Food Train, Cornerstone, Scouts Scotland and Maryhill,Integration Network and many other organisations to create a film for the campaign – take a look: https

https://scvo.scot/support/coronavirus

What we've learned so far

donations and fundraising reported a decrease 20% of charities fear they will be unable to do the work,More than 50,000 Scots signed up to the Scotland Cares Campaign to seek Covid volunteers and 74% of Scottish,and many plan to continue working together.,Find out what SCVO is doing in response to what it has learned through Never More Needed.,Find out all the latest information you need to know about running your organisation through the coronavirus

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/what-weve-learned-so-far

Top tips for businesses to support #NeverMoreNeeded

At a time when charities are Never More Needed, they are facing a significant funding gap.,Here are some ideas about how to support charity or community partners through Covid 19 and beyond.,Visit Social Enterprise Scotland to find out more or, if you work in Aberdeen, ACVO runs a programme,Do your research Think about what kind of society your business needs to survive and thrive?,Shout about it!

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/top-tips-for-businesses-to-support-nevermoreneeded

Mental health & wellbeing

There is a need, more than ever, for employees to have access to flexible working patterns.,about Flexible Working on the ACAS website here.,This will give everyone an opportunity to talk about how they’re feeling about work and more generally,Spotting mental health challenges in your team and how to address them More people are working from home,be talked about much more but isn’t because of stigma and taboo attached to it.

https://scvo.scot/support/hr/employee-engagement-culture/mental-health-and-wellbeing

Cost of living & the #RunningCostsCrisis

voluntary sector services more than ever.,Get in touch if you need us.,Contact the Information Service Find out more about: Reserves Business planning Mergers and collaborative,felt more important.,Scottish Government cost of living crisis campaign gives information for individuals on help available

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/running-costs-crisis

SCVO Annual Review 2020-21

We’ve been working more closely than ever with third sector interfaces and other intermediary organisations,There's more information about the work of our support services in the ‘Support Services’ section on,Our Never More Needed campaign has spotlighted the contribution voluntary organisations are making on,has put digital into focus more than ever before, so we have worked on updating our Digital Check-up,v=WKfx6pO215w Services More detail about the various services SCVO has provided over the past year Over

https://scvo.scot/about/work/annual-review/html

What SCVO has done

whilst also responding to the rapidly evolving needs of the voluntary sector.,available was co-ordinated, accessible and met the immediate and longer-term need of the sector and,organisations across the UK, co-ordinating support to the sector across the UK Launched the #NeverMoreNeeded campaign,areas including funding, running your organisation, governance, fundraising, volunteering and much more,Please contact us at enquiries@scvo.scot if you have any feedback on our work or ideas about what we

https://scvo.scot/support/coronavirus/what-scvo-is-doing