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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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The Gathering 2025 round-up

This page gives a round-up of events at the Gathering 2025, the UK's largest free event for the voluntary sector hosted by SCVO.

https://scvo.scot/the-gathering/round-up-2025

Autumn Budget fails to consider impacts of NICs increases on voluntary sector employers

Sheghley Ogilvie
5 November 2024
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Last week, following months of speculation, Britain’s first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years. A historic moment and important opportunity.The Budget, the Chancellor promised, would invest, invest, invest, partly by raising taxes by £4...

https://scvo.scot/p/94727/2024/11/05/autumn-budget-fails-to-consider-impacts-of-nics-increases-on-voluntary-sector-employers

SCVO Briefing: Scottish Budget 2025/2026

Sheghley Ogilvie
28 November 2024
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Summary SCVO and colleagues across the voluntary sector welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to deliver Fairer Funding for the sector by 2026, including exploring options to implement multi-year funding deals. Despite this renewed focus, 18 months on from the policy...

https://scvo.scot/p/95427/2024/11/28/scvo-briefing-scottish-budget-2025-2026

SCVO Briefing: Medium Term Financial Strategy

Sheghley Ogilvie
1 May 2025
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Summary SCVO and colleagues across the voluntary sector welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to deliver Fairer Funding for the sector by 2026, including exploring options to implement multi-year funding deals. Years of underfunding and poor funding practices, and crises...

https://scvo.scot/p/98446/2025/05/01/medium-term-financial-strategy

The impact of rising costs on third sector organisations in Scotland.

Steve Grozier
23 July 2024
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“Budgets have been stretched to go further in order to cover increasing costs and so other activities have been curtailed or cancelled.” Inflation may have finally hit the Bank of England’s target rate, but only after three years of rising costs. The focus of much of the research...

https://scvo.scot/p/92962/2024/07/23/the-impact-of-rising-costs-on-third-sector-organisations-in-scotland

The Reinvention of Philanthropic Charities

charities which operate within the public sector, are led by public sector employees, and which through procurement

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-reinvention-of-philanthropic-charities

Pay in the voluntary sector

Summary This report pulls together data on sector pay, comparing salary data from the voluntary sector and the public and private sectors, as well as variations in pay depending on factors such as age, gender and full-time /part-time workers. The main source of pay data used is...

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/pay-in-the-voluntary-sector

2025 Scottish Voluntary Sector Workforce Survey

Key findings from the 2025 workforce survey including recruitment, retention, wellbeing, diversity and pay.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/2025-scottish-voluntary-sector-workforce-survey

Single Outcome Agreements 2009-10: an analysis by CCPS

undertaken, using 24 headings for coding, namely: social care; service delivery; commissioning and procurement

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/single-outcome-agreements-2009-10-an-analysis-by-ccps

SCVO Response: Finance and Public Administration Committee Inquiry into the Scottish Budget Process in practice

Sheghley Ogilvie
24 March 2025
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About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to questions 2, 3, 9 and 10 of the Finance and Public Administration Committee’s Inquiry into the Scottish budget process in practice. Question 2: Please set out any barriers to meeting the four core objectives of the...

https://scvo.scot/p/97983/2025/03/24/scvo-response-finance-and-public-administration-committee-inquiry-into-the-scottish-budget-process-in-practice

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2026. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.