Useful Links & Resources

SCVO has a collection of resources that discuss Fair Funding in different contexts that you may find useful. We also include resources provided by other organisations who are supporting our Fair Funding calls.

• Fair Funding for the Voluntary Sector: SCVO’s policy paper setting out Fair Funding, what it entails, and why it is urgently needed.
• Fair Funding & Fair Work: Written in partnership with the TSI Network, this policy paper sets out why Fair Funding is required to enable voluntary organisations to become Fair Work employers.
• Programme of Government proposal – Delivering Fair Funding by 2026: SCVO’s Fair Funding proposal for the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government 2023-24.
• Fair Funding: It’s time to abandon the spin: SCVO blog on Fair Funding, what it entails, and where both those calls and the evidence behind them came from.
• Why Fair Funding for the voluntary sector is needed to achieve government’s ambitions: SCVO blog looking at why the Scottish Government’s equality, opportunity, and community ambitions cannot be met without Fair Funding.
• We can’t challenge poverty without Fair Funding for the voluntary sector: SCVO blog discussing why poverty cannot be successfully alleviated in Scotland without a sustainable voluntary sector, and how Fair Funding is vital to ensuring that sustainability.
• The First Minister promised action, not warm words, the Budget delivered neither: SCVO blog in response to the lack of progress on Fair/Fairer Funding in the 2024/25 Scottish Budget.
• The Scottish Third Sector Tracker: A growing research community made up of representatives from organisations based across Scotland, sharing experiences, views, and concerns.
• The need for fair funding: The ALLIANCE echoes SCVO’s Fair Funding calls in this opinion piece.
• Policy Briefing 1: A Scotland where we value our communities: Poverty Alliance briefing as part of Challenge Poverty Week 2023, echoing SCVO’s calls for Fair Funding.
• Policy Briefing 5: A Scotland where we value our communities & volunteers: Poverty Alliance briefing as part of Challenge Poverty Week 2024, echoing SCVO's calls for Fair Funding.
• Budget scrutiny 2025-26: Third-sector funding principles: Homepage for the Social Justice & Social Security Committee's Budget scrutiny focus on how the Scottish Government's approach to fair & efficient funding can contribute to the continued effectiveness of the third sector.
• Response to Social Justice & Social Security Committee Pre-Budget Scrutiny: SCVO's response to the Committee's Budget scrutiny focus on third-sector funding principles.
• Fair Funding Inquiry: SCVO blog following our evidence to the Social Justice & Social Security Committee on third-sector funding principles.

If your organisation has produced any useful resources that echo SCVO’s Fair Funding calls, please don’t hesitate to let us know.