Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Human Trafficking and Exploitation

legislation and in March 2014, former Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill (SNP) announced that the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/human-trafficking-and-exploitation

Social Security

Through gaining devolved powers, the Scottish Government has pledged to build a fairer social security,“Benefits were an entirely new area for the Scottish Government and they sought our advice from an early,The charity’s head of policy and strategy Marion Davis said: “We lobbied Scottish Government and submitted,“OPFS was extremely pleased and relieved when the Scottish Government continued a commitment to grants

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/social-security

Equal Marriage

The Equal Marriage campaign in Scotland called on the Scottish Government to legalise same sex marriage,He said he did, and the SNP agreed to hold a consultation if they got back into government.,Following a consultation which attracted 77,500 responses, the Scottish Government announced it would

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/equal-marriage

Right to Roam

All subsequent efforts failed as successive governments avoided trying to get legislation through the,In 1994 a report from the government’s advisers on the countryside, Scottish Natural Heritage, called,Scotland’s excellent access rights – together with the Scottish Government’s National Walking Strategy

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/right-to-roam

Repealing Ban on Discussing Homosexuality in Schools

series of homophobic attacks on LGBT equality and pro-LGBT Labour councils by Margaret Thatcher’s government,Section 28 (s28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was a controversial GB-wide amendment to local government,It was eventually repealed in the rest of Britain by the Local Government Act in November 2003.

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/repealing-ban-on-discussing-homosexuality-in-schools

Community Right to Buy

The Scottish Government was committed to simplifying it but not at that stage to extending it.,“The Community Empowerment Bill gave us an opportunity to change this as government officials effectively,We employed a former government solicitor and a legislation drafting expert to help us draft a targeted,After a lot of lobbying we got the Scottish Government to allow communities to buy land if it was abandoned

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/community-right-to-buy

The future of SCVO: consulting on a new strategic approach

Indeed Scottish Government specifically fund us to do that.,: Third sector Voluntary sector (included in SCVO’s name) Community sector Charities NGOs (Non-Governmental

https://scvo.scot/about/work/the-future-of-scvo-consulting-on-a-new-strategic-approach

Information for new trustees

You can find this out by reading your organisation’s governing document.,You’re all collectively responsible and accountable for the overall governance of your organisation.

https://scvo.scot/about/networks/trustee/information-for-new-charity-trustees

Coronavirus Third Sector Information Hub

funders, 250 grant assessors, 32 infrastructure organisations, 48 business advisors and the Scottish Government,Never more needed SCVO is part of the UK-wide #NeverMoreNeeded campaign – to help remind government,

https://scvo.scot/support/coronavirus

What SCVO has done

including the Social Renewal Advisory Board which our CEO, Anna Fowlie was part ofWorked with Scottish Government,met the immediate and longer-term need of the sector and our communities Worked with the Scottish Government,voluntary sector and to stimulate debate about the sector’s future Liaised closely with Scottish Government,Hub updated with information and resources on areas including funding, running your organisation, governance

https://scvo.scot/support/coronavirus/what-scvo-is-doing

account

Search

What can we help you with?

Filters

10,934 results for “governance”