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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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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

#EUareValued

Here at SCVO, we love charities. We believe every person who works to make a difference to Scottish communities should be valued, and that includes our colleagues who have come from other EU countries to live and work here. Scotland's voluntary sector is strengthened thanks to their contribution

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/eu-are-valued

Organisations' responses to the Disability Discrimination Act - 2009 study

This report explores how organisations have responded to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as amended by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. It is a follow-up to studies undertaken in 2003 and 2006. The study has explored more fully changes introduced by the 200...

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/organisations-responses-to-the-disability-discrimination-act-2009-study

SCVO Response: Finance and Public Administration Committee Inquiry into the Scottish Budget Process in practice

Official figures are not available from the Scottish Government, a significant gap in the Scottish Government's,Collect funding information across all government departments and produce a breakdown of Scottish Government,The upcoming UK Government Spending Review should support the Scottish Government to take on action their,The upcoming UK Government Spending Review should offer the Scottish Government some Budget certainty,Collect funding information across all government departments and produce a breakdown of Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/p/97983/2025/03/24/scvo-response-finance-and-public-administration-committee-inquiry-into-the-scottish-budget-process-in-practice

SCVO response: Criminal Justice Committee consultation on the risks of cybercrime

implementation of the Third Sector Cyber Resilience Action Plan (2023-35), in collaboration with Scottish Government,What is your view on the effectiveness of the Scottish Government cyber resilience policies and its most,SCVO has been actively involved in the recent review of Scottish Government’s cyber resilience strategy,These documents are useful in providing direction and focusing alignment across government policies and,It is worth highlighting that the report does not appear to cover the work that the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/p/101283/2025/10/03/scvo-response-criminal-justice-committee-consultation-on-the-risks-of-cybercrime

Hybrid working

To do this, employees need to create a Government Gateway account.

https://scvo.scot/support/hr/employee-engagement-culture/future-of-work

New research underlines pressures on third sector workforce and services

SCVO are calling for the Scottish Government’s own funding principles to align with SCVO’s definition,Ahead of the Scottish Budget and Spending Review, the Scottish Government has a real chance to create

https://scvo.scot/p/102535/2025/12/29/new-research-underlines-pressures-on-third-sector-workforce-and-services

The Social Economy Pledge

Collaboration - To support a continued partnership approach between government, charities, social enterprises

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/social-economy-pledge

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

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