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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 Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.

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SCVO’s response to DSIT’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan 

exclusion will be tackled across the UK.,At SCVO, we will always champion the essential work of the voluntary sector in Scotland.,Our sector may be delivering impactful, community-led digital inclusion work—but it’s under-resourced,We are delighted to see Government taking a leading role and understanding what it can do to make it,It is now up to DSIT and the UK Government to work with us to bring the Action Plan to life.

https://scvo.scot/p/98398/2025/04/28/scvos-response-to-dsits-digital-inclusion-action-plan

DigiNext event content and speaker videos

By making canny investments, and focusing on what really matters, you can use digital to significantly,What Next - wrapping up the day John Fitzgerald gave a short talk on ‘Digital Next – your post-AI digital,And you can check out this blog post for more of our thinking on what you need in a good digital strategy,– a digital agency working specifically with the charity sector.,as the Connecting Scotland programme to tackle digital exclusion across the country.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/diginext-event-information

Support & learning

Setting up a charity What to consider when setting up a new voluntary organisation, including legal structures,) an organisation, or thinking of it as an option, our guide is here to help you with the process Digital,How to deliver digital services, tackle digital exclusion and develop digital skills HR information,voluntary sector organisation Find out more Upcoming events Infrastructure support As part of the work

https://scvo.scot/support

Digital Participation funding – helping us go the distance!

One key area of work has been digital participation.,What we could never have expected though, was that the whole nation would suddenly switch on to the benefits,isolation and other forms of inequality in society through embedding digital skills development work,exclusion through upskilling and the purchase of devices and/or connectivity to help local communities,We'll be bringing you guest blogs from a number of our past projects over the coming weeks which we hope

https://scvo.scot/p/42551/2021/03/02/digital-participation-funding-helping-us-go-the-distance

Renewing Scotland’s full potential in a digital world

to tackle digital exclusion.,We support a vision that tackles digital exclusion that takes account of: MotivationAffordability of,Embedding digital inclusion Any effort to tackle digital exclusion should be embedded in existing activity,to tackle poverty and social exclusion, and not viewed as something separate.,If we want to become a digital nation then we have to empower people to know what they're doing online

https://scvo.scot/p/42425/2020/12/24/renewing-scotlands-full-potential-in-a-digital-world

6 big questions charity digital leaders need to ask

transformation. 73% of charities want their senior team to offer a clear vision of digital and what,The Essential Digital Skills Framework lays out 5 types of essential digital skills for life and work,tackle social exclusion by supporting people in communities to develop essential digital skills.,Speak to organisations tackling the same social issues as you – what can you learn from them and how,A version of this blog originally appeared on Charity Digital News.

https://scvo.scot/p/33081/2019/10/18/6-big-questions-charity-digital-leaders-need-to-ask

Essential digital skills for Scotland - charter briefing part 1

In order to tackle exclusion and inequalities, our work focuses on equipping everyone with these skills,Since signing the Charter in October 2017 their digital inclusion work has gone from strength to strength,Essential Digital Skills Framework SCVO are building a picture of what digital inclusion looks like across,What was done: We ran the ‘Essential Digital Skills for Scotland’ project across a self-selecting sample,In part two of this blog, we'll look at some of the examples of charter commitments and essential digital

https://scvo.scot/p/31648/2019/06/27/essential-digital-skills-for-scotland-charter-briefing-part-1

Digital bookmark: Notes from digital inclusion research

With Mhor Collective, One Digital and SCVO, we’ve been working with some fantastic third sector organisations,work with them towards some solutions.,The Economic Impact of Digital Inclusion in the UK by Good Things Foundation does what it says on the,and other social exclusions has been Ellen Helsper.,I know this is what we want to do with Mhor Collective.

https://scvo.scot/p/27066/2018/10/16/digital-bookmark-notes-from-digital-inclusion-research

I’ve lost my job and found myself on Universal Credit

We had arranged a demonstration as part of our work to tackle digital exclusion.,tax credits) into one to “simplify the system and ensure people are better off in work”.,about how I would manage for six weeks with existing commitments, no income and uncertainty about what,Read part 2 of the blog, exploring the implications for digital public services.Please join us at our,free event on 22nd August where we will present the latest evidence on what works in building basic

https://scvo.scot/p/15890/2017/08/03/ive-lost-my-job-and-found-myself-on-universal-credit

The world of resources at your fingertips

Reports, articles, blogs, tweets, snippets, charts, listicles, graphs, infographics (do I need to go,What do we want you to do in return?,So, what’s on the bookshelf today?,published their ’smartphone by default’ research - this will be crucial in shaping our government work,programme for this year - as they want to trial 3G / mobile approaches to tackling digital exclusion

https://scvo.scot/p/12736/2016/06/10/the-world-of-resources-at-your-fingertips