Today we’ve launched the 2022 Scottish Charity Awards with the invitation to organisations across the,Last year’s Charity Awards finalists have told us that these things have happened to them.,Well that’s because we’ll be hosting the Awards on the first evening of The Gathering!,I said in my blog last week, that we’re also missing the spontaneous conversations that occur when we

SCVO’s thought-leadership blog series highlights the economic return on investment generated from public,Small charities (income of under £100k) make up 78% of the charity sector in Scotland.,charities.,Charity Awards Climate Conscious Award being an active member of the Third Sector Net Zero Strategy,The Scottish Government published its emergency funding awards on 360 Giving during the pandemic, and

As discussed in my last blog, a third of MSPs (42 of 129) are new to the Scottish Parliament.,So much positive change was achieved in this legislation that I wrote a separate blog on this in 2018,In 2019, Marie Curie and MND Scotland won SCVO'S Cracking Campaign Award for their work to secure a fair,The Engender blog offers regular updates on progress in these and other areas.,For more on voluntary sector achievements read our book, Charities, Scotland & Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering

In my last blog I described how I had spent a large amount of my first few weeks trying to get to grips,funding will be the fifth call of grants worth £1000 each, provided to the third sector as part of the Scottish,Applications will be reviewed on a monthly basis and awarded throughout this period.,Cyber resilience is of vital importance to all charities and the attitude of “when, not if” should be

- should be to promote what the organisation does, provide a platform to allow press releases and blog,Running big showcase events for the third sector, including the Gathering and the Scottish Charity Awards,photography we have of our annual events such as The Gathering, and we asked the winners of the 2017 Scottish,Charity Awards if they would allow us to have some professional photography of their operations taken,that we could use on our website to promote their work and show real people working in the Scottish

In conclusion, many aspects of Scottish Government work very well.,It is not clear how the Scottish Government gained approval.,A blog entitled Future of the Funds was set up by the Managing Authority (MA) to inform people but it,In addition SDS expected match to come from EF contracts which they themselves only awarded approximately,sector SCVO: has the largest Scotland-wide membership from the sector – our 1,900 members include charities

is not as high as some might have predicted, especially when you consider a press bent on shaming charity,The recent Scottish Charity Awards were testament to some of the excellent things that have been happening,The new digital platform lets the public share their honest experiences of charities, both good and bad,It also gives charities valuable feedback on how they can improve to deliver better services and experiences,For more information take a look at my previous blog on getting to know Good HQ or get in touch by emailing