Fair funding & procurement Poor funding and poor procurement approaches risk our sector’s contribution,Our sector urgently needs Fair Funding and streamlined procurement processes to support the essential,, please see the below resources, which we hope will be useful to the Scottish Policy Forum: Fair Funding,for the Voluntary Sector: SCVO’s policy paper setting out Fair Funding, what it entails, and why it,Fair Funding & Fair Work: Written in partnership with the TSI Network, this policy paper sets out why

Ensuring grants and contracts Scottish Government, their agencies, and other public bodies award support,It must be recognised that poor funding and procurement practices undermine voluntary organisations aspirations,Registered charity “Due to annual funding from Scottish Government, which doesn’t cover our core costs,Ensuring grants and contracts Scottish Government, their agencies, and other public bodies award, cover,Scottish Government must ensure grants and contracts they, their agencies, and other public bodies award

Ensuring grants and contracts Scottish Government, their agencies, and other public bodies award support,It must be recognised that poor funding and procurement practices undermine voluntary organisations aspirations,, by aligning the Scottish Government’s “Fairer Funding” principles with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding,Registered charity “Due to annual funding from Scottish Government, which doesn’t cover our core costs,Ensuring grants and contracts Scottish Government, their agencies, and other public bodies award, cover

Aligning the Scottish Government’s “Fairer Funding” principles with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding,Fair Funding SCVO welcomes the Scottish Government commitment to deliver ‘Fairer Funding’ by 2026.,the Scottish Government’s “Fairer Funding” principles with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding– which,Registered charity “Due to annual funding from Scottish Government, which doesn’t cover our core costs,In the 2025/26 Budget, the Scottish Government can take a Fair Funding approach to these changes by:

Align the Scottish Government’s “Fairer Funding” principles with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding.,Fair Funding SCVO welcomed the Scottish Government commitment to deliver ‘fairer funding’ by 2026 and,Registered charity “Due to annual funding from Scottish Government, which doesn’t cover our core costs,agencies, and other public bodies award support Fair Work and cover the full costs of employing staff,The Scottish Budget can and should take much needed and meaningful steps towards a Fair Funding system

Ensuring grants and contracts Scottish Government, their agencies, and other public bodies award, cover,Aligning the Scottish Government’s “Fairer Funding” principles with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding,In April 2023, the Scottish Government’s policy prospectus, New leadership - A fresh start, renewed these,Registered charity “Due to annual funding from Scottish Government, which doesn’t cover our core costs,Scottish Government must ensure grants and contracts they, their agencies, and other public bodies award

Government’s Fairer Funding commitments and SCVO’s Fair Funding principles.,To support these aspirations the Scottish Government should: Adopt, and publish awards to, the 360Giving,In April 2023, the Scottish Government’s policy prospectus, New leadership - A fresh start, renewed these,progress on Fair Funding, it is essential that multi-year funding is included within the Medium-Term,Budget the Scottish Government should: Adopt, and publish awards to, the 360Giving Data Standard, including

Scottish Government’s “Fairer Funding” principles with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding.,of Fair Funding.,and awarding grants mean that funding covers an even shorter timescale as it needs to be spent by the,Ensuring that all public grant funding and procured contracts have both the real Living Wage and annual,barriers to implementation and that poor funding and procurement practices undermine its ability to

of proposals Our proposals for the 2024/2025 Programme for Government cover two areas: Delivering Fair,identifier core fields such as recipient name, organisation, and charity number.,Similarly, data on Fair Funding criteria, such as multi-year funding commitments and uplifts, is not,the data more accessible and allowing Scottish Government awards to be viewed as part of the bigger,to understand and measure progress towards Fair Funding for Scotland’s voluntary sector and ensure Scottish