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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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Community Capacity and Resilience Fund - Round 1 Evaluation, June 2016

The Community Capacity and Resilience Fund (CCRF) is a pilot funding scheme that used a flexible, supportive,and light-touch approach to assist local community-based organisations to pilot innovative and creative,Accompanying paper: individual organisational evaluations of the fund.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/community-capacity-and-resilience-fund-round-1-evaluation-june-2016

Scotland’s resilient third sector through the cost-of-living crisis: insights from new research by Erin Cutroneo

Conversely, volunteer capacity did not influence volunteer-run organisations’ propensity for any resilience,Difficult Political and Funding Environment: Organisational resilience was also largely influenced by,organisations (TSOs) have faced a double squeeze: soaring inflation rates and costs, alongside rising community,Use of adaptive tactics indicates continuous learning, demonstrating greater long-term resilience capacity,While the Third Sector Resilience Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic provided temporary support in this

https://scvo.scot/p/101739/2025/11/03/scotlands-resilient-third-sector-through-the-cost-of-living-crisis-insights-from-new-research

The Scottish third sector tracker - wave 11 (Autumn 2025)

The eleventh wave of the Scottish third sector tracker reveals a sector that continues to show resilience,Trustees, administrative roles, and communications/marketing positions are the hardest to fill.,Funding delays have emerged as a major challenge.,Overall, the findings show a sector committed to delivering for communities but increasingly constrained,Without structural changes to funding models, investment in workforce capacity, and improved partnership

https://scvo.scot/p/103256/2026/02/03/the-scottish-third-sector-tracker-wave-11-autumn-2025

Wave eleven - Autumn 2025

We also asked open questions about what additional resources, skills or capacities would best help their,organisation do more for their beneficiaries; the impact of funding delays; and about the impact the

https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker/wave-eleven-autumn-2025

AI and everything else - our call to action a digitally confident Scottish voluntary sector

Used well, digital and technology can make charities more effective, resilient and responsive, enabling,deliberate, sustained action to build digital confidence as a core part of effective, ethical and resilient,Technology alone will not fix problems rooted in ways of working, capacity or culture.,Build cyber resilience as a core duty of careRecognise cyber security as a fundamental governance issue,At the same time, familiar pressures remain: constrained funding and capacity, persistent digital exclusion

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/call-to-action-4

Introduction This paper considers the available literature and data on the resilience of Scottish voluntary,For this paper, resilience is defined as the ability of an organisation to anticipate, cope with and,long-term trends from the Scottish third sector tracker, we draw conclusions about the sector’s resilience,and what is required to sustain and build on that resilience.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/the-resilience-of-scottish-voluntary-organisations

New research finds funding delays emerge as major challenge for Scottish charities 

latest findings from the Scottish third sector tracker reveals a sector that continues to show resilience,said: “This latest wave of Scottish third sector tracker reveals a sector that continues to show resilience, broadly stable, yet over half of organisations report that limitations in resources, skills, or capacity,Without structural changes to public sector funding models, investment in workforce capacity, and improved,Fund.

https://scvo.scot/p/103262/2026/02/04/new-research-finds-funding-delays-emerge-as-major-challenge-for-scottish-charities

The fund is provided by Scottish Government and managed by SCVO.,The main objective of the fund is to provide up to 2 years funding to community-based voluntary organisations,enabling them to:• Pilot small innovative and creative projects, increasing capacity to deliver core,services tackling poverty and social inequality.• Use the funding to scale up pilot projects to attract,more risk-averse grant funding to sustain the work going forward.• Encouraging applications for up to

https://funding.scot/funds/a0R3z00000OjQQLEA3/community-capacity-and-resilience-fund

SCVO's strategy for 2023-28

The financial resilience of the sector has been fragile for a long time and the widely accepted need,We must continue to develop our capacity to address multiple entrenched social, economic and environmental,It brings massive research capacity that is changing people’s lives.,We will enable our members to be ambitious for themselves and their communities, be more resilient and,We will promote excellence in governance, digital capacity, diversity and inclusion.

https://scvo.scot/about/work/strategy

This funding round is for organisations that are looking to deliver something innovative related to shared,community transport, which has the potential to either be replicated elsewhere, or develop a tool that,They are awarding funding to organisations working in ways that can demonstrate best practice and ways,of working that have the potential to build a sustainable, stronger more resilient community and shared,be used to support disabled people living in the UK and creating a more sustainable and resilient community

https://funding.scot/funds/a0R3z00000OQIeIEAX/motability-foundation-building-a-resilient-community-and-shared-transport-sector