2025/26 will see the new UK government bed in, and preparations begin for Scottish Parliament elections in 2026 and local government elections in 2027. Heading into 2025/26, there are some signs of strain in relationships between the voluntary sector and governments at all levels...
https://scvo.scot/support/shifting-sands/politics
This is our response to the Scottish Labour Party's Scottish Policy Forum's initial consultation - part,Summary SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Labour Party’s Scottish Policy Forum,Forum: Fair Funding for the Voluntary Sector: SCVO’s policy paper setting out Fair Funding, what it,forum.,We hope that the following resources are useful to the Scottish Policy Forum in understanding the essential
https://scvo.scot/p/96677/2025/01/23/scvo-response-to-scottish-labours-policy-forum
Just before the coronavirus crisis hit Scotland, SCVO's Policy Forum published a Manifesto for the Future,We encourage the Advisory Council to consider the three key themes raised by the sector in the Manifesto,The advisory council and policymakers should engage with the Third Sector Employability Forum (TSEF),Volunteering for all As part of the Scottish Volunteering Forum, it is our view that society and the,The advisory council and policymakers should engage with the Scottish Volunteering Forum.
https://scvo.scot/p/44886/2021/08/27/economic-transformation-strategy-scvo-response-to-the-scottish-government
It has now been eight months since The Gathering 2020, where SCVO launched its Manifesto for the Future,By way of a short reminder, the Manifesto was developed by SCVO’s Policy Forum, a group comprised of,The Forum collected evidence from innovative thinkers and key opinion leaders in Scotland who shared,The end result was SCVO’s Manifesto for the Future which outlined an aspirational but achievable long-term,Pushing forward the Manifesto’s vision for Scotland’s future was a key priority for SCVO pre-pandemic
https://scvo.scot/p/40834/2020/10/14/a-long-term-approach-to-recovery
The SCVO Policy Forum was an SCVO initiative, which ran throughout 2019 and 2020, to strengthen the voice,In February 2020 at The Gathering, SCVO’s Policy Forum published its Manifesto for the Future.,These opinions we fed directly into the Manifesto.,The Manifesto for the Future did not take into account the possibility of a global health pandemic and,The ideas contained within the SCVO Policy Forum’s Manifesto for the Future can act as the basis for
https://scvo.scot/p/39759/2020/07/24/a-blueprint-for-recovery-and-renewal
Subsequent to this work, SCVO engaged our Policy Forum to produce SCVO Policy Forum – Manifesto for the,Future [2] which outlines a number of future-focused recommendations that aim to address some of the,to ensure organisations are aware of the risks, can attempt to mitigate these and to advocate for policy,and who believe their core causes could be damaged by new and unknown policy directions.,/forum/manifesto-for-the-future#:~:text=Introduction,environmental%20changes%20in%20living%20memory.
https://scvo.scot/p/39883/2020/08/07/scvo-response-to-scottish-parliament-finance-and-constitution-committee
