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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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Programme for Government proposal 2024/25: Transparent voluntary sector funding

Summary of proposals Our proposals for the 2024/2025 Programme for Government cover two areas: Delivering,To support these aspirations in the Programme for Government the Scottish Government should commit to,Collect funding information across all government departments and produce a breakdown of Scottish Government,the government is delivering on the Scottish Government’s fairer funding commitments for the voluntary,funding of the voluntary sector “across all Scottish Government departments and local government to

https://scvo.scot/p/92441/2024/06/27/programme-for-government-proposal-2024-25-transparent-voluntary-sector-funding

Leading charity votes for far-ranging governance changes

Charity was warned by regulator to get its board structure in order

https://tfn.scot/news/leading-charity-votes-for-far-ranging-governance-changes

Housing association yet to resolve “serious” governance issues

Regulator continues to impose statutory powers on housing association

https://tfn.scot/news/housing-association-yet-to-resolve-serious-governance-issues

Participation and Representation: Strengthening the Third Sector Voice in Local Governance

East Lothian as it sought to strengthen the participation of third sector organisations in local governance,now participate directly in the process of selecting delegates and in being delegates in local governance,representation Democratisation can be initiated from the top Bringing third sector organisations into local governance,Stronger third sector representation can, in turn, help to improve local governance and outcomes for

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/participation-and-representation-strengthening-the-third-sector-voice-in-local-governance

Participation and representation: Strengthening the third sector voice in local governance

What Works Scotland has been working with the third sector to develop a vision to re-imagine community planning in Scotland. At the end of 2014 representatives from third sector interfaces (TSIs) in Scotland worked together in a two-day deliberative forum facilitated by What...

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/participation-and-representation-strengthening-the-third-sector-voice-in-local-governance

Close to Parity: Challenging the voluntary sector to smash the glass ceiling

Rowena Lewis's research report shines a spotlight on women's representation in the voluntary sector. Through her research Rowena set out to demonstrate how well the sector is doing. She unearthed some uncomfortable truths along the way about the inequalities that persist. She...

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/close-to-parity-challenging-the-voluntary-sector-to-smash-the-glass-ceiling

Equality leadership capacity building project

aspirations to offer their experience directly to those responsible for making public appointments to government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/equality-leadership-capacity-building-project

The ‘Get on Board’ Competency Pathway

need to engage young people now by creating opportunities and a supportive culture around board governance,"We need to create governance opportunities in a supportive environment and work towards changing mindsets

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-get-on-board-competency-pathway

A Review of the Scottish Executive's response to the Race Equality Advisory Forum's Recommendations

This report draws together the Executive?s progress to date in addressing the recommendations made by the Race Equality Advisory Forum REAF. It also examines related initiatives in reference to the wider duty under the RR(A)A to promote race equality.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/a-review-of-the-scottish-executives-response-to-the-race-equality-advisory-forums-recommendations

Greening the National Accounts for Scotland

This briefing note summarises recent work funded by scotecon on using insights from economics to measure ?sustainability? for Scotland.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/greening-the-national-accounts-for-scotland

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