Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Audits of charity accounts are currently creating a headache for the third sector. There are several causes. But some charities can escape some of the headache with thought or careful planning. The issues with audits are UK-wide and not just confined to Scotland. There is a...

https://scvo.scot/p/58510/2023/03/20/how-to-escape-the-charity-audit-headache

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

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

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

SCVO response to 2023/24 Programme for Government

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5 September 2023

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Responding to Tuesday’s Programme for Government, Anna Fowlie, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations,' (SCVO) Chief Executive, said: “The First Minister has today set out a Programme for Government (PfG,environment that would recognise the vital role of Scotland’s voluntary sector in delivering on government,“Today’s PfG restates the Scottish Government’s commitment to Fairer Funding for the voluntary sector,The Scottish Government's current poor grant-making practice makes the focus on improving the clarity

https://scvo.scot/p/62038/2023/09/05/scvo-response-to-2023-24-programme-for-government

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

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