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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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City has more homeless children than all of Wales

NEWS 19 February 2025 by Rab Armour
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
Homelessness is spiralling out of control

https://tfn.scot/news/city-has-more-homeless-children-than-all-of-wales

“Lack of transparency”: NGO group hits out at UK Government on aid spending at home

NEWS 8 January 2025 by Niall Christie
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
#Politics
Government unable to confirm timeline for reducing aid spending on domestic asylum and refugee costs.

https://tfn.scot/news/lack-of-transparency-ngo-group-hits-out-at-uk-government-on-aid-spending-at-home

Edinburgh set to declare housing emergency

NEWS 2 November 2023 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
People can't access social housing or affordable rented accommodation

https://tfn.scot/news/edinburgh-set-to-declare-housing-emergency

Greens' leader challenges Swinney to ban controversial 'therapy'

NEWS 4 June 2026 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Most Scots want the practice abolished

https://tfn.scot/news/greens-leader-challenges-swinney-to-ban-controversial-therapy

Charities won’t be silenced by Lobbying Act

NEWS 6 January 2015 by Graham Martin
Management
Lobbying Act will stifle debate

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-wont-be-silenced-by-lobbying-act

Poverty in Britain must not be swept under the carpet

OPINION 19 November 2018 by Gareth Jones
Families & Young People
TFN reporter Gareth Jones analyses UN rapporteur Philip Alston's findings on poverty in modern Britain

https://tfn.scot/opinion/poverty-in-britain-must-be-at-the-forefront-of-the-news-agenda

Benefits system is unjust says local CAB advisers

NEWS 18 February 2014 by Paul Cardwell
Social Justice & Poverty
Benefit claimants have been left feeling suicidal because of unjust benefits sanctions placed on them according to a local citizen’s advice bureaux (CAB)

https://tfn.scot/news/benefits-system-is-unjust-says-local-cab-advisers

Climate change is already devastating, says Scottish charity

NEWS 28 August 2017 by Gareth Jones
Environment & International
Sciaf is calling on the Scottish Government to dramatically increase its climate change targets and do more to reverse the effects of climate change

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-charity-calls-for-stronger-climate-change-action

Vital charity faces job losses as funding is slashed

NEWS 13 December 2022 by Rab Armour
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
#RunningCostsCrisis
28 jobs are at risk

https://tfn.scot/news/vital-charity-faces-job-losses-as-funding-is-slashed

Charities among voices calling for reversal of job-threatening culture cuts

NEWS 20 February 2023 by Niall Christie
Management
Culture & Leisure
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#RunningCostsCrisis
#CostOfLivingCrisis
Creative Scotland faces having to use £7m from its £17m national lottery reserves to preserve “standstill” funding agreements for 120 organisations.

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-among-voices-calling-for-reversal-of-job-threatening-culture-cuts

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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.