Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Towards a Green Jobs Strategy - Opportunities for Business Consultation

This document is intended to foster discussion with interested parties, to inform the development of a Green Jobs Strategy. While a refreshed Smart, Successful Scotland will, as now, set out broad priorities, we need a Green Jobs Strategy to take a more detailed look at how we...

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/towards-a-green-jobs-strategy-opportunities-for-business-consultation

Evaluation of the Scottish Recovery Network

This evaluation of the Scottish Recovery Network (SRN) was commissioned by the Scottish Government and

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/evaluation-of-the-scottish-recovery-network

Burness Paull

able to bring experience from across a huge range of legal specialisms, including charity law, governance

https://scvo.scot/services/partners/legal/burness-paull

Child Poverty: a Final Report to the Local Government and Communities Committee of the Scottish Parliament

This research was commissioned in August 2008, following the setting up of an Inquiry in Spring 2008 to examine Child Poverty in Scotland. The main purpose of the research was to fill a gap in the evidence base and to obtain the views of parents living in poverty and of the...

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/child-poverty-a-final-report-to-the-local-government-and-communities-committee-of-the-scottish-parliament

First Principle of Voluntary Action: essays on the independence of the voluntary sector from government

States of America and Wales - to review issues relating to the independence of voluntary action from government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/first-principle-of-voluntary-action-essays-on-the-independence-of-the-voluntary-sector-from-government

Capturing Cultural Value - How culture has become a tool of government policy

Culture now delivers government policy by other means.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/capturing-cultural-value-how-culture-has-become-a-tool-of-government-policy

The State and the Voluntary Sector: recent trends in government funding and public service delivery

At a time when public expenditure is under pressure, this NCVO research publication contains the latest easy-to-understand intelligence on the UK statutory funding relationship. Figures typically refer to 2006-07 although some figures, such as those relating to the value of tax...

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-state-and-the-voluntary-sector-recent-trends-in-government-funding-and-public-service-delivery

Time and trust: key learning from the Covenant process

Kirsten Hogg

25 July 2025

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Policy

launched in July at Westminster is the starting point for an improved relationship between the UK government,sector – the dynamics within government and within the sector can also exert themselves.,A key decision for government is which part of government takes lead responsibility for the work – if,The Covenant covers national and local government, but without local government in the room while the,From the government side I think it’s also important to consider who from the machinery of government

https://scvo.scot/p/99536/2025/07/25/time-and-trust-key-learning-from-the-covenant-process

SCVO response to Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS)

Press release

26 June 2025

for Voluntary Organisations' (SCVO) Head of Policy and Research, said: “To achieve the Scottish Government’s,Third Sector in Scotland, the Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) needed to set out the Scottish Government’s,welcome, if, as she suggests, multi-year funding is to be one of the policy solutions the Scottish Government,funding much wider than the current pilot, to voluntary organisations contributing to Scottish Government,"Our sector makes a significant contribution to the Scottish economy and the government’s ambitions to

https://scvo.scot/p/99042/2025/06/26/scvo-response-to-medium-term-financial-strategy-mtfs

Accounts & reporting

The type of external scrutiny depends on the charity’s governing document, gross income and net assets,Under The Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006, if the term ‘audit’ is used in a charity’s governing,required to have an audit or an independent examination is again dependent on income and what their governing

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/finance-business-management/charity-accounts-financial-reporting

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