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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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A Widening Gap: Women and Welfare Reform

Multiple discrimination, including disabled and refugee women - Devolution of welfare - Scottish Governments

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/a-widening-gap-women-and-welfare-reform

Life in Low Income Families - Research Report

The explicit evaluations by those living in low income family households of government policies and practices

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/life-in-low-income-families-research-report

Compendium of International Legal Instruments and Other Inter-governmental Commitments Concerning Core Civil Society Rights

This compendium collates and consolidates various commitments made by national governments - both regionally

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/compendium-of-international-legal-instruments-and-other-inter-governmental-commitments-concerning-core-civil-society-rights

Scottish Government foot dragging on pollution will cost lives

NEWS 5 May 2017 by Rab Armour
Environment & International
Pollution strategy is costing lives according to campaigners

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-gov-foot-dragging-on-climate-will-cost-lives

New covenant will rekindle sector's right-to-protest promises Starmer

NEWS 18 July 2025 by Rab Armour
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
#Society
Tory governments introduced gagging clauses

https://tfn.scot/news/new-covenant-will-rekindle-sectors-right-to-protest-promises-starmer

Beyond the Cliff Edge: A Roadmap to Sustainability for London's Black-Led Organisations (2025)

Black-led organisations play a critical role in their communities, but unequal access to funding, governance,that long-term, unrestricted funding, participatory decision-making, and access to training in governance

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/beyond-the-cliff-edge-a-roadmap-to-sustainability-for-londons-black-led-organisations-2025

Has the government deliberately covered up sanction figures?

NEWS 4 August 2015 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
UK government accused of covering up true extent of "pernicious" sanction regime

https://tfn.scot/news/has-the-government-deliberately-covered-up-sanction-figures

Gaza aid blocks “appalling and unacceptable”, government admits

NEWS 5 May 2025 by Niall Christie
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Funding & Finance
UK Government raises alarm about the effect on aid and to aid workers

https://tfn.scot/news/gaza-aid-blocks-appalling-and-unacceptable-government-admits

SEFARI (Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes) research gateway

As SEFARI, these institutes deliver the Scottish Government funded Strategic Research Programme (SRP)

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/sefari-scottish-environment-food-and-agriculture-research-institutes-research-gateway

‘Promising Approaches Revisited: Effective action on loneliness in later life. (October 2020)

Five years on, thanks to the work of many organisations, there are government loneliness strategies in

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/promising-approaches-revisited-effective-action-on-loneliness-in-later-life-october-2020

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2025. 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.