The organisations who received funding recruited staff and set up programmes of work in good faith.,Voluntary Sector Intermediary “It’s difficult to get core costs from grants and foundations – you might,get a nominal contribution for management costs but that’s it.”,Similarly, recent research from GCVS and colleagues at Strathclyde University found that despite voluntary,Decisions should be made before the start of the financial year.

At SCVO, we spent a lot of time encouraging people to get started on their digital journey.,changed from March 2020 During the pandemic, organisations of every size underwent a rapid and almost universal,Individual organisations use service design, user research and accessibility best practice in all their,They are testing early and ‘failing fast’, and using evidence of the user and business value delivered,Staff teams have good cyber awareness and use digital tools safely. How do we get there?

Charities don’t have a monopoly on purpose though, staff across all sectors are motivated by the idea,Earlier this year, SCVO commissioned research to explore what people working in the public and private,One thing that came up was that the private sector values clear impact reporting and can get frustrated,In 2015 the UN chose 17 objectives that it thought were universal and had the power to transform the,They are a universal call to action to respond sustainably against the threat of climate change, have

Safety nets to provide access to devices and connectivity – such devices in libraries and other public,Prior to the pandemic, we had supported hundreds of projects and trained thousands of front-line staff,identifying entitlements to other support including Child Benefit, Scottish Child Payment and Best Start,to tackle poverty and inequality to see how they could get involved in supporting the people they work,More evidence and resources on what works in tackling digital exclusion is available on the website for

recognised and shape its priorities and research.,Together, the Scottish voluntary sector employs over 100,000 paid staff.,advertising the funds, this gives voluntary organisations mere weeks to get bids together.,Question Eight Can you point us towards data, research or insights from past work or other countries,SCVO’s evidence library contains hundreds of recent reports, all produced by or about voluntary sector

This is the second of our two-part report on the Digital Participation Charter pilot research - to read,Senior Management Support Evidence from SCVO’s “Creating a Digitally Confident Third Sector in Scotland,Edinburgh City Libraries have created the ‘Get Online’ programme, which provides digital skills for service,users in libraries throughout the city.,It also offers 1-1 volunteer support to learners via partnership working with the University of Edinburgh

Indeed, as highlighted by Inclusion Scotland during evidence given to the Welfare Reform Committee, isolation,Examples include: Carer training and advocacy to enable carers to request flexible working or to get,Within a more universal offer we can offer more tailored support to prevent people moving into long term,We must take stock of how current approaches and programmes work, of research such as “Ties that Bind,This would be a strong starting point.

Please get in touch.,There are over 45,000 voluntary organisations in Scotland involving around 138,000 paid staff and approximately,Some Empirical Evidence, Easerlin (1974).,Poverty Reduction through Rural Development: Final Report, Center for Evaluation (CEval) at Saarland University,[xlvii] Evidence submitted to the Scottish Parliament's Expert Working Group on Welfare, Miller, (2013