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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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Call for dormant assets to be redirected to tackle financial exclusion

NEWS 29 May 2024 by Niall Christie
Management
Funding & Finance
#RunningCostsCrisis
#CostOfLivingCrisis
The Dormant Assets Scheme (DAS) was expanded last year to include other financial sectors including pensions and insurance.

https://tfn.scot/news/call-for-dormant-assets-to-be-redirected-to-tackle-financial-exclusion

Revealed: the 'giving tax' which is costing charities millions

NEWS 23 May 2025 by Graham Martin
Management
Funding & Finance
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Campaigners and politicians want action to end Gift Aid commission

https://tfn.scot/news/revealed-the-giving-tax-which-is-costing-charities-millions

Consultation on national vision for kinship care

NEWS 23 December 2025 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Organisations invited to give their views. 

https://tfn.scot/news/consultation-on-national-vision-for-kinship-care

Charity calls for action with half of Scotland’s unpaid carers cutting back on food and heating

NEWS 20 November 2025 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
30% said their physical health and 39% their mental health is poor because of their caring role.

https://tfn.scot/news/charity-calls-for-action-with-half-of-scotlands-unpaid-carers-cutting-back-on-food-and-heating

Scotland’s culture sector calls for new legislation to support long-term growth and impact

NEWS 25 November 2025 by Niall Christie
Management
Culture & Leisure
Funding & Finance
A Culture Act can realise “untapped potential” of sector at critical juncture

https://tfn.scot/news/scotlands-culture-sector-calls-for-new-legislation-to-support-long-term-growth-and-impact

Consumer Scotland: draft workplan 2022 to 2023 – SCVO response to the Scottish Government

Jason Henderson
14 March 2022
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Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Government’s,further investigation by ourselves or others, often with clarification sought from the Scottish Government,which exists wholly or mainly to benefit society or a profession as well as the activities of any government,With the Scottish Government and Consumer Scotland’s commitment to the Net Zero agenda, such a focus

https://scvo.scot/p/49288/2022/03/14/consumer-scotland-draft-workplan-2022-to-2023-scvo-response-to-the-scottish-government

Do we need 1,000 social care bodies for 5.3m people?

OPINION 14 October 2016 Guest post
Health & Social Care
2 comments
Theresa Shearer says the foundations the social care sector in Scotland are built on are cracking and the sector must start talking about change

https://tfn.scot/opinion/a-thousand-social-care-bodies-for-5.3m-people-is-a-lot

Goodbye to a life less ordinary

OPINION 23 May 2023 by Alan Staff
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
Retirment is something to look froward to Alan Staff as he praises the sector and colleagues but laments the perennial lack of funding that underpins the sector

https://tfn.scot/opinion/goodbye-to-a-life-less-ordinary

Housing to 2040 – a dream or promise for real deeds?

OPINION 16 April 2021 Guest post
Regeneration & Housing
Steven Tolson argues Scotland's housing policies need radical surgery

https://tfn.scot/opinion/housing-to-2040-a-dream-or-promise-for-real-deeds

Bridging the health inequality gap

OPINION 17 February 2014 by Alex Turnbull
Health & Social Care
Scottish people are healthier than ever before, unless they are poor, argues Ian Welsh, chief executive of the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

https://tfn.scot/opinion/bridging-the-health-inequality-gap1

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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.