Press releases

SCVO media release 17 November 2015 The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) has awarded £195,000 of funding to 19 projects across Scotland to help people learn the basic skills they need to get the most out of the internet. BT Scotland has also made a contribution... Read more

SCVO media release 23 September We need to do more to maintain public trust in fundraising Trustees and senior managers of charities must take more ownership of fundraising activity Need to do more to prevent vulnerable people being inundated with fundraising requests Sub... Read more

SCVO media release 14 September 2015 The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations has received funding of £1.3m from the Scottish Government to create more jobs for young unemployed people in charities and third sector organisations through Community Jobs Scotland. The... Read more

SCVO media release 9 September 2015 The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisation (SCVO) has received investment of more than £500k from the Big Lottery Fund to help more people connect with the online world by training hundreds of people in charities across Scotland as digital... Read more

SCVO media release 21 August 2015 The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is inviting community groups to apply for funding to help get people online. The Digital Participation Challenge Fund will allocate £325k to community projects across Scotland to help people... Read more

SCVO media release 30 July 2015 The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations has launched an informal review of fundraising in Scotland to assess whether or not the current system of public charity fundraising self-regulation is working. The review, which will report back by... Read more

SCVO media release 8 July 2015 For immediate release Following George Osborne’s summer budget today, John Downie, Director of Public Affairs, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), said: “For the first time the Chancellor has finally admitted that his attack on the... Read more

SCVO media release 5 June 2015 For immediate release Charities and people right across the country have been recognised for the contribution they make to life in Scotland at the 2015 Scottish Charity Awards which took place at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh tonight (4 June... Read more

SCVO media release 1 April 2015 The Digital Participation Challenge fund, delivered by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations with Scottish Government support, today published its second round of funding offers to 33 organisations across Scotland to help them get people... Read more

SCVO media release 26 February 2015 Ditch rhetoric on social justice & focus on treating the causes not just the symptoms of poverty Hundreds of charity leaders from across Scotland will question Alex Neil MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities & Pensioners... Read more