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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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Membership

Please sign up for one of our upcoming events.,Our wonderful complementary therapy volunteer team lead by our national award-winning therapist have,Therefore, our biggest challenge now is meeting the demands on our free wellbeing services.,With a growing number of people accessing our support we must increase our services to meet demand, which,our work and we encourage people to find out more about our services on our website.”

https://scvo.scot/membership

SCVO Environmental Policy

The policy will be reviewed annually in line with our business plan.,rationale and how we will achieve them.,This policy should be read in conjunction with our Travel and Subsistence Policy, all staff wellbeing,policies, procurement guidance and corporate partnerships policy.,Next Steps To deliver this policy we will produce an implementation plan.

https://scvo.scot/environment

Voluntary Health Scotland

We’re passionate about what the voluntary health sector can achieve for people’s health and wellbeing,We are a network of networks that includes our Health Policy Officers Network and the Scottish Community,At Voluntary Health Scotland, we work with our members and others to address health inequalities, to,improve health related policy, systems and partnership working, and to help people and communities to,Our members are small and large, national and local.

https://scvo.scot/the-gathering/exhibitors/voluntary-health-scotland

Control & risk management

As the board, we should put in place appropriate structures, financial controls, policies and procedures,We will achieve this by doing the following: Understanding and keeping to all legal, contractual and,Maintaining and regularly reviewing policies, procedures and reporting arrangements (for example, those,Making plans to reduce and manage risks appropriately, to better achieve the purpose of our organisation,Monitoring and reviewing the sustainability of our organisation.

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/governance/code/control-risk-management

Board behaviour

As the board, we understand that our behaviour can have a far-reaching effect and is fundamental to our,We need to make sure our behaviour is consistent with our organisation’s vision and values.,We will achieve this by doing the following: Being open and honest about how we govern, who we are, and,governing document and our conflicts of interest policy.,and ethical standards in the policies, practices and culture of our organisation.

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/governance/code/board-behaviour

SCVO's journey to net zero

SCVO has published its environmental policy, set up an internal climate crisis working group and is working,SCVO faces a number of significant challenges in achieving this, including working within historic energy-inefficient,Look out for blog posts about our progress towards net zero, including from staff involved in our climate

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/climate-crisis/scvo-net-zero

Constitution

We're passionate about what the voluntary sector can achieve.,Along with our community of 2,000+ members, we believe that charities, social enterprises and voluntary,We lobby government on policy issues, create jobs for young people and support organisations to embrace

https://scvo.scot/about/work/constitution

Useful Links & Resources

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,,Fair Funding & Fair Work: Written in partnership with the TSI Network, this policy paper sets out why,Why Fair Funding for the voluntary sector is needed to achieve government’s ambitions: SCVO blog looking,Policy Briefing 1: A Scotland where we value our communities: Poverty Alliance briefing as part of Challenge

https://scvo.scot/policy/fair-funding-procurement/fair-funding/useful-links-resources

Reserves

Thinking about reserves in uncertain times Thinking about your reserves policy is particularly important,Why should you have a reserves policy?,We normally want to be able to show that we’re spending effectively to deliver services and achieve our,t=538 This is a recording of our webinar from our Open Door sessions about the importance of good reserves,policies and action.

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/business-planning/reserves

SCVO Impact Report 2021/22

Our policy team were dedicated to building important relationships with key policy-makers to make sure,SCVO policy-driven interactions 20 SCVO policy briefings and consultation responses 7 committee appearances,by SCVO staff 13 SCVO policy events and training sessions SCVO highly rated for awareness and regard,role in spearheading SCVO’s campaigning, and provided a useful bridge between SCVO, the wider sector, policy-makers,another challenging year, SCVO is proud of our many achievements and the achievements of the sector.

https://scvo.scot/about/work/impact-2021-22

Get involved

Collaborate with us and our members to develop and promote voluntary sector policy perspectives for Scotland