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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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Scottish charity gets £5m government cash boost

NEWS 3 March 2016 by Paul Cardwell
Environment & International
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Mary’s Meals is to benefit from UK government’s Department for International Development match funding programme

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-charity-gets-5m-government-cash-boost

Charities can help break down barriers to employment

OPINION 20 November 2024 by Colin Smyth MSP
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Regeneration & Housing
Colin Smyth MSP highlights how Scotland’s third sector can improve employment prospects for more disabled people

https://tfn.scot/opinion/breaking-down-barriers-to-employment

Plans to improve voluntary sector funding welcomed

NEWS 12 November 2019 by Gareth Jones
Management
Moves to ensure greater stability for voluntary sector funding have been welcomed

https://tfn.scot/news/plans-to-improve-voluntary-sector-funding-welcomed

Plans to remove rate relief for private schools progress

NEWS 26 June 2018 by Gareth Jones
Management
The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on its plans to make private schools pay extra taxes, sparking calls to examine charity status

https://tfn.scot/news/plans-to-remove-rate-relief-for-private-schools-progress

Criminalising emotional neglect could see disabled parents lose children

NEWS 31 May 2018 by Gareth Jones
Health & Social Care
Campaigners have highlighted the importance of providing support for parents with learning disabilities before making emotional neglect a crime

https://tfn.scot/news/criminalising-emotional-neglect-could-see-disabled-parents-lose-children

Compassion, not cost-cutting, should be at the heart of welfare reform

OPINION 7 July 2025 by Erica Young
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Erica Young on the government’s proposed social security changes

https://tfn.scot/opinion/compassion-not-cost-cutting-should-be-at-the-heart-of-welfare-reform

Scotland’s Social Security Agency is already failing minorities

OPINION 19 October 2018 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
Mark Griffin MSP believes Scotland's flagship Social Security Agency has already failed minorities despite it claiming to be a model of inclusion

https://tfn.scot/opinion/scotlands-social-security-agency-is-already-failing-minorities

Cash for CAS as unprecedented demand takes its toll

NEWS 7 January 2015 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
Welfare reform has put unprecedented pressure on Citizens Advice Scotland services - leading to cash injection

https://tfn.scot/news/cash-for-cas-as-unprecedented-demand-takes-its-toll

Charities fear UK government will raid £2bn fund

NEWS 9 January 2018 by Rab Armour
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Proceeds from dormant assets could transform communities and support the third sector post-Brexit

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-fear-uk-government-will-raid-2bn-fund

SNP disability regulations underwhelming and unambitious

OPINION 27 January 2022 by Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP
Social Justice & Poverty
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Plans for Scotland’s replacement for Personal Independence Payment do not go far enough

https://tfn.scot/opinion/snp-disability-regulations-underwhelming-and-unambitious

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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.