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, echoing SCVO’s calls for Fair Funding.

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