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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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Charities must merge and curb senior management pay to weather funding storm

NEWS 26 July 2016 by Graham Martin
Health & Social Care
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A whirlwind of closures is about to engulf care charities – which must make a choice between paying senior management salaries and providing services

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-must-merge-and-curb-senior-management-pay-to-weather-funding-stor

Ukraine crisis: how you can help

NEWS 1 March 2022 by Niall Christie
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Funding & Finance
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Work is being done across Scotland and beyond to support those on the ground in Ukraine

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-appeals-launched-as-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-continues

Scotland’s child poverty targets “destined for failure” unless employability schemes are overhauled, charities warn

NEWS 21 April 2021 by Gareth Jones
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
One Parent Families Scotland and Oxfam Scotland have said parents and carers need better support

https://tfn.scot/news/scotlands-child-poverty-targets-destined-for-failure-unless-employability-schemes-are-overhauled-charities-warn

Organisations seeking public sector grants to pay real Living Wage and provide effective workers’ voice from 1 July 2023

Sheghley Ogilvie
10 May 2023
Posted in
Existing funding and procurement practices undermine aspirations to offer secure work and must be addressed

https://scvo.scot/p/59575/2023/05/10/organisations-seeking-public-sector-grants-to-pay-real-living-wage-and-provide-effective-workers-voice-from-1-july-2023

‘Community Wealth Building’: two sides of the same coin?

OPINION 18 May 2023 by Sarah Latto
Management
Culture & Leisure
Funding & Finance

https://tfn.scot/opinion/community-wealth-building-two-sides-of-the-same-coin

A little co-production goes a very long way

OPINION 20 November 2020 by TFN
Management
Regeneration & Housing
A team of people with first-hand experience of homelessness have been directly involved in shaping homelessness policy and practice in Glasgow

https://tfn.scot/opinion/a-little-co-production-goes-a-very-long-way

Programme for Government proposal: Transparent voluntary sector funding

Sheghley Ogilvie
22 June 2023
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Experts in the Scottish Exchequer are involved in this work, which covers public spending, procurement,improvement, its Fiscal Transparency Programme – including a Fiscal Portal, its development of a Procurement

https://scvo.scot/p/60307/2023/06/22/programme-for-government-proposal-transparent-voluntary-sector-funding

Autumn budget fails to consider impacts of NI increases on voluntary sector employers

OPINION 6 November 2024 by Sheghley Ogilvie
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#NIHike
Sheghley Ogilvie: the essential services and support provided by voluntary organisations was neither mentioned nor recognised

https://tfn.scot/opinion/autumn-budget-fails-to-consider-impacts-of-nics-increases-on-voluntary-sector-employers

Charity workers’ fears for the future laid bare

NEWS 20 February 2019 by Gareth Jones
Management
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Rising overheads, funding cuts and increased work loads are amongst the concerns that third sector staff have - a survey has revealed

https://tfn.scot/news/charity-workers-fears-for-the-future-laid-bare

GTS - Scotland’s first “social” security firm

FEATURE 16 July 2015 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
As Robert Armour discovers a security firm that aims to use its status as a social enterprise to create jobs and change the culture of the industry

https://tfn.scot/features/gts-scotlands-first-social-security-firm

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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.