also risk losing skilled and experienced staff and volunteers, placing increased pressure on vital projects,Volunteer Scotland and the STUC launched an updated Volunteer Charter in 2019 which sets out the key,cost-of-living crisis on volunteers and volunteer involving organisations has found that volunteer participation,Another practical barrier to volunteer participation that has become more acute during the current crisis,organisations employ over 135,000 paid staff – a third more than the 100,000 staff employed in the digital

What is clear from this cohort is that digital inclusion support is still a priority for a wide range

impact on Work Capability Assessments is urgently requiredensure that the principles of the Volunteer Charter,Volunteer Scotland and the STUC launched an updated Volunteer Charter in 2019 which sets out the key,Reduction in volunteer participation The Covid-19 pandemic had a significant impact on volunteer participation,skills through training and useful volunteer development tools, policies and guidesoffer a one stop digital,grow volunteering through partners, funders, Government, and policy makerswork with others to support projects

This programme has included management of Scotland’s Digital Participation Charter and allied funds,,For example, research by the Good Things Foundation on projects supporting digital inclusion in health,Prior to the pandemic, we had supported hundreds of projects and trained thousands of front-line staff,Enabling her digital participation wasn’t the sole reason she was able to improve her situation, but,Scotland’s Digital Participation Charter: https://digitalparticipation.scot/resources

In July 2019, Peebles CAN was excited to receive Digital Participation Charter Fund support to improve,Charter Fund support also enabled the project to deliver 24 tutor-led Digital Workshops.,We would like to thank SCVO for supporting our community through the Digital Participation Charter Fund,The learning experienced during our Digital Discovery Learning project has gone a huge way to supporting,Find out more about the Digital Participation funding opportunities we have open right now.

One key area of work has been digital participation.,Digital participation was gaining real momentum.,The Digital Participation Charter Fund has been operating for some years with the support of the Scottish,You can also check out the 188 previously supported Charter Fund projects to show the breadth of work,I’m looking forward to seeing how this funding will help set a steadier pace for digital participation

Last year, thanks to an award from the Digital Participation Charter Fund, we were able to focus on supporting,These tutorials were added to our newsletter, social media channels and sent as a text to participants,to become digital champions, supporting their communities to become more digitally included.,The mantra of the project – “Never too old to learn.,Find out more about the Digital Participation funding opportunities SCVO has open right now.

In July 2019, WHALE Arts were happy to receive funding from the Digital Participation Charter Fund to,our in-person sessions using our tried and tested one to one support model, building a rapport with participants,Aware that some of our participants had always joined our sessions for the social aspects and to stave,Our Digital team then started running IT support calls to these participants, and others who needed digital,of our newer digital participants in person for the first time.

Our Digital Participation Charter Fund supported weekly drop-in sessions and our monthly outreach visits,We introduced a food project in partnership with Moray Food Plus, TSI Moray and Moray Council.,We worked closely with our Older Persons Befriending project to support people needing shopping or prescription,skills level to help us embed digital in everything we do.,Find out more about the Digital Participation Charter Fund