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For example, trade unions may lobby the government or the European Union on policies which promote their

and engagement with the public sector, including a broader sense of the sector being undervalued; governance

Its effective lobbying work persuaded the Scottish Government to commit to guaranteeing a year of post‐diagnostic

in Scotland with power to investigate and present a case to the Procurator Fiscal, receives no government

At a time when funding is insufficient and funding processes remain inefficient, governments at all levels,By including the sector in recent eNICs changes, one could argue that the UK Government sees the voluntary,Last week I submitted SCVO’s response to the Scottish Government’s Rural Delivery Plan, and the Community

This article covers audience questions that came up during a panel discussion on ‘Putting People and Values at the Heart of AI’ at The Gathering, SCVO’s national convention for charities, on 5 February 2025

Summary These pages outline the size and shape of the Scottish voluntary sector workforce using data from OSCR, SCVO, the Annual Population Survey, the Scottish Third Sector Tracker and other sources. 1 in 3 charities employ paid staff, and for thousands of charities these paid...

to ease the struggle, but they’re not equipped to tackle the root causes and here’s the thing, government,inclusion strategies, such as those outlined in Scotland’s Roadmap for Digital Inclusion and the UK Government,For instance, the UK Government Digital Inclusion Action Plan 2025 highlights that low-income households,For example, the UK Government Digital Inclusion Action Plan 2025 emphasises partnerships with corporations

the precarious nature of voluntary sector funding, but it appears to be largely ignored within government,That is why we must not give up on pushing the government at Westminster to recognise this issue and,The UK Autumn Budget created this problem, and the UK Government can and must offer a solution.,The continuing lack of actions from government puts some voluntary sector services and organisations,at risk, and seriously undermines the promises made by this new government about partnership working

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