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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

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.

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Wave two findings - winter 2021/22

The initial findings from the second wave of the Scottish Third Sector Tracker are available here.,The findings suggested that most third sector organisations continued to face challenges in the face,However, there had been improvement in the sector’s ability to deliver services and/or planned programmes,Finally, most in the sector were relatively confident in their future – 92% were confident that they’

https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker/wave-2

Wave three findings - spring 2022

The findings from the third wave of the Scottish Third Sector Tracker are available here.,Key findings Scotland’s third sector organisations continued to face challenges in spring 2022, particularly,Almost two-thirds (64%) of organisations continued to see increased demand for their services.,For the majority of third sector organisations, online played a large part in their day-to-day management,Infographic summary The challenge of rising costs and hybrid methods of administration and delivery This wave

https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker/wave-3

Wave six findings - spring 2023

The infographic summary, summary report and data tables for the sixth wave of The Scottish Third Sector,Tracker are available here.,Read our summary report of wave six of the tracker.

https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker/wave-6

Introduction This paper considers the available literature and data on the resilience of Scottish voluntary,By examining the sector's response to events such as the Covid 19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis,, alongside long-term trends from the Scottish third sector tracker, we draw conclusions about the sector

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/the-resilience-of-scottish-voluntary-organisations

Wave ten - spring 2025

Introduction This paper presents the key findings from the ten wave of the Scottish third sector tracker,The Tracker collects panel data from Scottish third sector organisations to give current insights into,the health of the sector, key trends, and developments.,The Tracker asks organisations questions relating to their current organisational challenges; demand,Topical questions are included each wave.

https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker/wave-10

Things do not seem to be improving.

Completion of wave 8 (Spring 2024) prompted me to look back two years at the report I wrote for wave,impact on their ability to deliver their core services or activities, an increase from four in ten (42%) two,“Staff are exhausted, underpaid and not given the recognition they deserve within the sector.,many organisations responding to the tracker, things do not seem to be getting any easier.,Read the wave eight report here

https://scvo.scot/p/93330/2024/08/13/things-do-not-seem-to-be-improving

Tracking the changes in our sector

This report provides an overview of the key insights from the first six Waves of the Scottish Third Sector,The data from the Tracker charts the emergence of the sector from the COVID-19 pandemic through 2021,,The stark rise in operating costs during 2022 and 2023 was a concern for the Third Sector, with many,In Wave 1, a third of organisations reported this as one of their top challenges, increasing to two thirds,The tracker has also provided insights into the emerging needs of third sector beneficiaries in each

https://scvo.scot/p/89094/2024/03/07/tracking-the-changes-in-our-sector

Our latest analysis shows more charities struggling to break even, but also some welcome growth in key funding streams

As we can see from the chart above, the public sector and the general public are the two most important,sources of income for the Scottish voluntary sector.,sector.,For our 10-page summary of the latest financial trends see State of the Sector 2024: key Scottish voluntary,sector figures and trends.

https://scvo.scot/p/96909/2025/02/03/our-latest-analysis-shows-more-charities-struggling-to-break-even-but-also-some-welcome-growth-in-key-funding-streams

State of the Sector 2024: key Scottish voluntary sector figures and trends

Download PDF The voluntary sector in numbers – key facts There are over 46,500 voluntary sector organisations,in Scotland In a typical year, 4 in 5 households use a voluntary sector service Almost 1 in 3 people,had used a service provided by a charity in the last 12 months (OSCR 2022) In 2023 the voluntary sector’s,In Scotland last year 830,000 people volunteered The sector looks after substantial assets on behalf,size and shape and get in touch with our research team if you'd like to know more.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/state-of-the-sector-2024-key-scottish-voluntary-sector-figures-and-trends

Charities face staff and volunteer crisis

A third of organisations reported this as one of their top challenges

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-face-staff-and-volunteer-crisis