With regards to sustainable funding, attendees highlighted a need for a long-term vision from funders,building those relationships with funders can we really move forward in achieving fair funding for Scotland,medium-sized organisations meant finding themselves ineligible to apply for both smaller and larger funding posts,For others, it was primarily about having a “long-term vision for funding” and access to funds to allow,sustainable” and there were calls for training and advice to be provided for organisations, perhaps by Third
https://scvo.scot/p/54973/2022/10/17/fair-funding-collaborate-challenge-change-the-gathering-2022
Despite the challenging environment, we are still seeing
energy and vision in the sector.,A third of respondents (33%) were more
optimistic about their future now than they were at this time,Income Predictions around future income show the most
mixed response, with only a third thinking it will,Getting sustainable long term funding and
investment and recognition that third sector are valuable and,“The sector needs to come together and talk about the
future.
https://scvo.scot/p/30032/2019/02/20/third-sector-forecast-2019
Of specific interest to the third sector is a pledge to consult on an update to the Charities and Trustee,And, in the next year, a National Volunteering Outcomes Framework will be published, setting out a vision,SCVO welcomes these announcements and the Government’s willingness to look at the long term future of,the charity sector.,Female Genital Mutilation Bill to strengthen the protection of women and girls from this form of gender
https://scvo.scot/p/25962/2018/09/05/key-promises-show-the-sector-can-deliver-the-change-scotland-needs
SCVO strongly disappointed that near replication of Work Programme means third sector regulated to role,Their ambitions were that the third sector would be heart and centre of the new employability landscape,“It’s simply not good enough, and ignores the successful values driven approach of the third sector in,Third sector organisations with established connections and local expertise will ultimately be relegated,Read our briefing - Fair Start Scotland: contracts, commissioning and the marginalisation of the third
https://scvo.scot/p/16248/2017/10/04/third-sector-cut-out-of-new-employability-landscape
There is a clear role in all of this for the third sector.,The power to do this resides in Scotland, and there is support for such a tax amongst some third sector,relation to the environment, as SCVO has discussed previously – see, for example, http://www.scvo.scot/long-form-posts,Perhaps more prosaically, any future changes to VAT could also have a significant impact on the sector,(d) Should we encourage more third sector investment, or direct, ring-fenced spend into third sector
https://scvo.scot/p/22923/2017/12/13/what-are-the-scottish-government-and-parliaments-tax-and-spending-options
