The organisations who received funding recruited staff and set up programmes of work in good faith.,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,The number of staff hours spent on reporting is often not proportionate to the size of the grant.,Decisions should be made before the start of the financial year.

In this report, we reflect on the digital progress the Scottish Voluntary Sector has made since 2018.,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,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,Hanna reports feeling more confident of finding work within the hours she is available and is comforted,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

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,Our research team would be happy to discuss the content of these reports with the Commission if necessary

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

To that end, the report ends with some questions that have come out of this work, which SCVO is confident,Please get in touch.,Some Empirical Evidence, Easerlin (1974).,, Center for Evaluation (CEval) at Saarland University (2012).,[xlvii] Evidence submitted to the Scottish Parliament's Expert Working Group on Welfare, Miller, (2013