Key findings — summary report The wave 4 summary report presented key insights into Scotland’s third,Particularly evident in this report was the increased prevalence of staffing issues and shortages, volunteer,and approximately one third of respondents made use of financial reserves between April and August 2022,Almost 80% of organisations reported they were seeing increasing financial hardship in the groups and,communities they work with and 64% of organisations considered that demand for their services had increased
https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker/wave-four
In 2022, our call to action is that any voluntary sector organisation, of any size, should be able to,While initially focussed on police brutality, groups right across society have grappled with the deeper,Within the voluntary sector, groups such as #CharitySoWhite have highlighted that charities need to take,They are testing early and ‘failing fast’, and using evidence of the user and business value delivered,Our community is quite rural with dispersed communities.
https://scvo.scot/support/digital/call-to-action-3
While staff and volunteer support remain a growing concern, third sector groups report an ongoing increase,costs crisis and public sector funding cuts, are leading to a perfect storm for charities and voluntary groups,The Scottish Third Sector Tracker is a growing research community made up of representatives from third,The Tracker is run by an independent research company called DJS Research on behalf of SCVO, the Scottish,can be found here: https://scvo.scot/research/evidence-library/scvo-third-sector-tracker-waves-1-to-
https://scvo.scot/p/87690/2024/01/04/charities-face-staff-and-volunteer-crisis
followed by the development of the cost-of-living crisis and associated organisational concerns during 2022,financial reserves in the 3 months leading into April 2023, an increase compared to the same period in 2022,groups and social enterprises can be financially fragile at the best of times, and the Tracker research,The Scottish Third Sector Tracker is a growing research community made up of representatives from third,can be found here:https://scvo.scot/policy/research/evidence-library/2023-scottish-third-sector-tracker-waves
https://scvo.scot/p/87687/2024/01/04/finances-proving-biggest-challenge-to-charities-as-rising-costs-bite
