Policy & research blog

This year’s Volunteers’ Week slogan is a Time to Celebrate. A huge big thank you to all the people involved in bringing volunteering... Read more

1-7 June is Volunteers’ Week – a chance to celebrate and say thank you for the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make... Read more

Through the early hours of this morning, results from the European Parliament elections started to pour in from across Europe. Unlike... Read more

When the invitation to attend a Town Hall with President Barack Obama landed as junk mail, I presumed it was just that. I palmed it... Read more

As some of you will already know, SCVO are taking a look at how to improve grant funding. We’re well aware that others in the sector... Read more

Organisations across the third sector invest significantly in developing solutions to the challenges that face people and communities... Read more

What does the future hold for Scotland’s third sector? This was a question SCVO asked delegates at the Gathering 2019 and which the... Read more

By standing up for themselves and others, Scotland’s children and young people defend human rights every day. Most people don’t... Read more

Third sector organisations ‘have got a different way into communities and a different way into talking to people’, one council chief... Read more

Women are not a homogenous group and face different and various barriers to the labour market based upon their multiple and... Read more