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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

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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Press coverage tips for charities

An AGM won’t cut it – would you read a story about another organisation’s governance meeting?!

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/resources/press-coverage-tips-for-charities

SCA Community Learning Exchange

The fund from the Scottish Government has been around since 2015 and since then the programme has enabled,Tackling the climate emergency is a key area in Scotland’s Programme for Government in which communities

https://scvo.scot/p/101091/2025/11/30/sca-community-learning-exchange

Scottish Charity Award winners 2024

" - Aberlour Children's Charity Sponsored by SGN This ambitious campaign persuaded the Scottish Government,focused on impact and saw the charity host a music and dementia conference, influence the Scottish Government’s

https://scvo.scot/scottish-charity-awards/previous-winners/winners

Self-employed and contractors

A person is self-employed if they run their business for themselves and take responsibility for its success or failure. Self-employed workers aren’t paid through PAYE, and they don’t have the employment rights and responsibilities of employees. Someone can be both employed and...

https://scvo.scot/support/hr/recruitment-selection/guide-to-employment-status/self-employed-and-contractors

Useful contacts

Guidance for charities operating in other countries National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) General information on winding up and dissolving a charity, along with specific procedural guidance for organisations operating in England. Closing your charity or voluntary...

https://scvo.scot/support/closing-down/useful-contacts

Making use of AI

Outlines the ways AI could be used by the voluntary sector

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/ai/making-use-of-ai

SCVO’s response to DSIT’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan 

Recently, we submitted our response to the UK Government’s Call for Evidence on the Digital Inclusion,In our response, we spoke about our disappointment in the lack of leadership Scottish Government has,Government must take a coordinated, practical approach to digital inclusion by resourcing the voluntary,We are delighted to see Government taking a leading role and understanding what it can do to make it,It is now up to DSIT and the UK Government to work with us to bring the Action Plan to life.

https://scvo.scot/p/98398/2025/04/28/scvos-response-to-dsits-digital-inclusion-action-plan

Managing safeguarding concerns

Undertaking safeguarding activities reduces the risk of harm and abuse for your team and all the children and adults you work with. However, there can still be worries that someone in contact with the organisation is struggling or experiencing abuse, neglect or exploitation...

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/safeguarding/concerns

How we produced SCVO’s AI policy 

and using AI tools, and these left some grey areas that weren’t covered by existing IT and data governance,and changing rapidly, so it would be easy to produce a policy that dated very quickly AI use and governance

https://scvo.scot/p/101267/2025/10/01/how-we-produced-scvos-ai-policy

Returning to the workplace

Current government guidelines state that anyone who works from home, should.

https://scvo.scot/support/hr/employee-engagement-culture/returning-to-the-workplace

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