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Financial vulnerability of Scottish charities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alasdair Rutherford and Alan Duggan (University of Stirling)
2022-01-17

This briefing paper outlines findings on Scottish charities drawing from research conducted as part of the ESRC-funded Assessing financial vulnerability and risk in the UK’s charities during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis project, led by the University of Birmingham in partnershi… Read more

UK Covid relief and recovery grants: data analysis

360Giving
2021-12-14

This report, by 360Giving, uses data published by funders about the grants they made between March 2020 and October 2021 during the Coronavirus pandemic to understand how they and wider civil society responded during that time. Key Findings - Data released by 174 grantmakers… Read more

Briefing paper: Multi-year budgeting in Scotland

David Hume Institute
2021-12-14

This paper from the David Hume Institute’s proposes a way forward for the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government and Audit Scotland to make multi-year budgeting the established norm in Scotland. Public and third sector organisations want more certainty about funding to al… Read more

Climate Action and the Social Care Collective: Roundtable Series - Report.

Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland
2021-12-13

This report gathers learning from the Climate Action and Social Care Collective event series co-hosted by the Health and Social Care Academy (the Academy) a programme of the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) and Scottish Care to explore climate action in the… Read more

Covid-19 What it means for giving

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
2021-12-03

Latest 'Pulse Poll' figures from CAF. Includes: - Reserves - operational planning - future fundraising plans Read more

UK Giving 2021

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
2021-11-29

This UK Giving report sets out the continuing impact that the pandemic is having on people’s giving behaviours. It is based on monthly online interviews throughout 2020, and includes more recent polling in 2021 as restrictions began to lift (c. 22,000 interviews in total). Key… Read more

The Scottish Third Sector Tracker - wave one PowerPoint presentation (Summer 2021)

SCVO
2021-11-24

The PowerPoint presentation to accompany SCVO's webinar presenting the key findings from the first wave of The Scottish Third Sector Tracker. You can watch a recording of the webinar on YouTube at the link below. Read more

COVID-19 pandemic: The essential role of the voluntary sector in emergency response and resilience planning

Claire Bynner
2021-11-24

Blog available here: https://childrensneighbourhoods.scot/2021/10/21/the-local-third-sector-key-workers-of-the-future/ This research note highlights the need to engage the voluntary sector in strategic emergency response and resilience planning with the local state. It draws… Read more

Community empowerment: Covid-19 update

Auditor General, Accounts Commission
2021-11-24

Purpose of this output: "Public bodies can learn from good practice and new ways of working which emerged in response to Covid-19 and use this to shape the way they work in the future to promote the best outcomes for local communities and help address inequalities. On this page… Read more

The Scottish Third Sector Tracker - wave one data tables (Summer 2021)

DJS Research
2021-11-23

These data tables present the in-depth findings from the first wave (Summer 2021) of The Scottish Third Sector Tracker. Read more