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 Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.
The Scottish Third Sector Tracker
The Scottish Third Sector Tracker is a growing research community made up of representatives from third sector organisations based across the whole of Scotland, who are willing to share their experiences, views and concerns as the sector faces both new and ongoing challenges.
Most recent findings
This interactive dashboard provides a high-level overview of the changes wave-to-wave. The data can be filtered by number of employees; volunteers and organisation income band. Toggle through the report by selecting the pages on the left hand side. Select the wave you want to see from the drop-down menu at the top. The report can be exported to PowerPoint; PDF or Excel.
For more detail please refer to to the individual wave reports and data tables.
Wave ten - Spring 2025
The findings for wave ten are now available.
Find out more about the tracker and see results from the previous waves
Frequently Asked Questions
Once every four months.
For most, the survey will take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete each time.
You complete the survey online. A link to the latest edition of the survey will be emailed to you once it is live.
A complete picture of the sector is crucial to the success of the project and so we ask, where possible, that members submit a response for as many surveys as possible. We appreciate that this will not always be possible due to a change in roles, leave or illness. In these cases, we would ask for another colleague to complete the survey in your absence.
If you leave your organisation altogether, please let us know and we can organise for someone else in the organisation to take your place in the community.
Finally, in the very unfortunate circumstance that your organisation stops operating at any point during the next 6 months, we would be very grateful if you could let us know, so that we know not to continue to contact you.