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  • How to build strong board relationships – and how mediation can help if it goes wrong
    Tracey Bird Tracey Bird
    27th January 2021
    Posted in
    • Support & learning
    • Running your organisation blog
    2020 saw trustees challenged in many ways, not least as they had to work virtually to make difficult decisions and ensure their... Read more
  • Fair Work for All by 2025 – hope, dream or reality?
    Henry Simmons Henry Simmons
    26th January 2021
    Posted in
    • Policy
    • Policy blog
    Since the launch of the 2016 Fair Work Framework and the challenge set down by the Fair Work Convention for Scotland to be a world... Read more
  • Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill Stage Two Briefing
    Paul Bradley Paul Bradley
    25th January 2021
    Posted in
    • Policy
    • Policy briefing
    About SCVO  The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is the national membership organisation for the voluntary sector... Read more
  • Scotland and the Shared Prosperity Fund
    Craig Wilson Craig Wilson
    25th January 2021
    Posted in
    • Policy
    • Consultation response
    Our position As part of the European Union, and as a participant in the last seven-year European Structural Fund cycle, Scotland was... Read more
  • Social Renewal – from Buzzcocks to Oasis
    Anna Fowlie Anna Fowlie
    25th January 2021
    Posted in
    • SCVO
    • SCVO blog
    Now that the Social Renewal Advisory Board’s report If Not Now, When? has hit the digital newsstands and I’m seeing the reactions in... Read more
  • Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee – Procurement Reform
    Allan Young Allan Young
    22nd January 2021
    Posted in
    • Policy
    • Consultation response
    SCVO response to the call for views on procurement SCVO has responded to the call from the Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee’s... Read more
  • Why do trustees need to bother about cyber security?
    Alison Stone Alison Stone
    6th January 2021
    Posted in
    • Digital,
    • Support & learning
    • Digital blog
    I am sure that any trustee reading this will agree that their role is not for the faint hearted! There is lots to learn and... Read more
  • We wish you a merry Brexit…
    Rachel Le Noan Rachel Le Noan
    21st December 2020
    Posted in
    • Policy
    • Brexit
    • Europe
    • Policy blog
    This is it, this time it is for real. When I come back to the (home) office after the Christmas break, Brexit will be the new reality... Read more
  • Lessons learned from our first online AGM
    Anna Fowlie Anna Fowlie
    14th December 2020
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    • SCVO
    • SCVO blog
    About 18 months ago, I started thinking about shifting our AGM online. I saw how successful it had been for ACEVO, the English... Read more
  • In praise of the walkie talkie
    John Fitzgerald John Fitzgerald
    3rd December 2020
    Posted in
    • Digital
    • Digital blog
    We’ve all spent so much of 2020 trying to stay in touch with people while we can’t be in the same physical space. For many of us... Read more
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Welcome to our posts page – a platform for colleagues from charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations to share what matters to them.

Here you’ll find a range of opinion pieces from both SCVO staff and others working in Scotland’s voluntary sector, covering everything from Brexit and human rights to Sustainable Development Goals and inequality.

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