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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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Multi-year pilot a “positive first step” in reforming sector funding, charity says

NEWS 7 February 2025 by Niall Christie
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Funding & Finance
Children in Scotland are one of the organisations who have been calling for a funding rethink. 

https://tfn.scot/news/multi-year-pilot-a-positive-first-step-in-reforming-sector-funding-charity-says

Pioneering charity faces closure as Scottish Government makes it compete for cash

NEWS 24 October 2024 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Funding & Finance
Budget cuts and funding changes mean it has lost its £480,000 core grant

https://tfn.scot/news/pioneering-charity-faces-closure-as-scottish-governnent-makes-it-compete-for-cash

Resources needed for the voluntary sector to action Scottish Government Fair Work plans

Sheghley Ogilvie
9 December 2022
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Minister Lorna Slater, announced that all organisations that receive grant funding from Scottish Government,The announcement is part of the Scottish Government’s plans to become a Fair Work Nation by 2025.,SCVO encourage the Scottish Government to engage with voluntary sector funders and employers to ensure,Scottish Government need to work with local government, funders, and crucially, the sector, to ensure

https://scvo.scot/p/56062/2022/12/09/resources-needed-for-the-voluntary-sector-to-action-scottish-government-fair-work-plans

Cost of living crisis: warm banks are well intentioned but not a solution

NEWS 10 October 2022 by Graham Martin
Social Justice & Poverty
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Poverty activists and those with lived experience counsel against setting up heated shelters for the vulnerable

https://tfn.scot/news/cost-of-living-crisis-warm-banks-are-well-intentioned-but-not-a-solution

Referendum focus: international development

NEWS 17 July 2014 by Paul Cardwell
Environment & International
1 comment
TFN asked third sector international development bodies what kind of future they are looking forward to following the referendum vote

https://tfn.scot/news/referendum-focus-international-development

Doing things differently - why there will be no SCVO manifesto

OPINION 28 April 2015 Guest post
Management
We must do things differently, argues John Downie

https://tfn.scot/opinion/never-mind-the-ballots-why-there-will-be-no-scvo-manifesto

Spend on benefits not foodbanks, experts tell government

NEWS 1 July 2016 by Susan Smith
Families & Young People
An independent group of experts on food poverty has called on the Scottish Government to increase benefits rather than fund foodbanks

https://tfn.scot/news/spend-on-benefits-not-foodbanks-experts-tell-government

Show us the money! Social care charities rage at Scottish Government

NEWS 19 October 2017 by Susan Smith
Health & Social Care
Charities hit out after Scottish Government announces a major social care pay rise but doesn't say who will pay for it

https://tfn.scot/news/show-us-the-money-social-care-charities-rage-at-scottish-government

Human rights at heart of new Scottish social security system

NEWS 24 February 2017 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
Human rights will be an integral part of Scotland's new social security system

https://tfn.scot/news/human-rights-put-at-heart-of-new-scots-social-security-system

Scottish Kurds take to the streets to protest against state crack-down

NEWS 7 November 2016 by Graham Martin
Environment & International
Hundreds of Kurdish people in Scotland will take to the streets this week to demonstrate against state oppression in Turkey

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-kurds-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-against-state-crack-down

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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.