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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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Useful Links & Resources

Programme of Government proposal – Delivering Fair Funding by 2026: SCVO’s Fair Funding proposal for,the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government 2023-24.,Why Fair Funding for the voluntary sector is needed to achieve government’s ambitions: SCVO blog looking,cannot be successfully alleviated in Scotland without a sustainable voluntary sector, and how Fair Funding,The Scottish Third Sector Tracker: A growing research community made up of representatives from organisations

https://scvo.scot/policy/fair-funding-procurement/fair-funding/useful-links-resources

SCVO's policy and influencing progress in 2023

SCVO's policy and public affairs team braced ourselves for a busy start to the year – you may recall my blog,outlined what progress we expect to see in 2023/24, which you can read in our proposals for the 2023 Programme,We also proposed updates to Scotland's National Outcomes, emphasising the importance of our sector.,Remarkably, the voluntary (or third) sector is not mentioned once throughout the National Outcomes!,on the sector's place in the UK Government's Levelling Up agenda.

https://scvo.scot/p/60640/2023/07/07/scvos-policy-and-influencing-progress-in-2023

SCVO response to the inquiry into Public Administration – Effective Scottish Government decision-making

It was a peer learning programme to help third sector organisations and their statutory sector partners,The Scottish Government also needs to acknowledge the size and variety of the voluntary sector in Scotland,Looking ahead to the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2020-21: Valuing the Third Sector It goes on,Most recently we saw progress regarding engagement with the sector on the Programme for Government (PfG,As Sheghley Ogilvie from SCVO explained in a blog post last year: ‘I’ve often heard the Programme for

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

Support & learning

Includes governance, finance and managing people Village & community halls handbook Everything you need,your HR and employee relations including recruitment, benefits, culture and development Training Our programme,out more Upcoming events Infrastructure support As part of the work that SCVO does on behalf of the third,sector in Scotland, we provide a data management and reporting platform known as Milo that is used by,Scotland’s Third Sector Interfaces (TSIs) Networks Make the most of professional connections and peer

https://scvo.scot/support

Circular Economy 360

The Circular Economy 360 series is delivered by Social Investment Scotland and supported by Zero Waste,In addition to our live sessions will be sharing inspiring interviews from organisations across the globe,and our resource pack information will help you on your journey too

https://scvo.scot/p/50228/2022/05/02/circular-economy-360

UK government set to raid Scotland’s Big Lottery Fund cash by 40%

​Fears UK government will seize £320m of Big Lottery Fund cash across the UK

https://tfn.scot/news/uk-government-set-to-raid-scotlands-lottery-cash-by-40

SCVO response to Building Community Wealth consultation (Scottish Government)

and Third Sector Interface (TSI) organisations in Community Wealth Building pilot areas, conducted over,For example, the future generations commissioner, which is in the Scottish Government's Programme for,Third Sector Interface (TSI) organisations play a crucial role in engaging the sector and the community,The Scottish Government should not expect the inclusion of third sector involvement in these forums to,We must see cross sector collaboration across the private, public and third sector to remedy this issue

https://scvo.scot/p/59630/2023/05/15/scvo-response-to-building-community-wealth-consultation-scottish-government

Sport and recreation trusts have every right to be charities

Kirsty Cumming defends sport and recreation trusts against suggestions that they don't deserve charitable

https://tfn.scot/opinion/sporta-blog

First impressions of the third kind – the power of partnerships

Colin McKerchar has worked in the voluntary sector for four months now and is feeling liberated from

https://tfn.scot/opinion/first-impressions-of-the-third-kind-the-power-of-partnerships