Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Changing the Chemistry

Membership number 5027
Charity registered in Scotland SC045519

https://scvo.scot/membership/members/5027/changing-the-chemistry

Designing your approach

Working through a process to design for place-based digital inclusion,

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/partnership/place-based-digital-inclusion/designing-your-approach

Shows promise. But must try harder: An assessment by the SDC of the Government's reported progress on sustainable development over the past five years

In 1999, the UK Government published a sustainable development strategy for the UK, A Better Quality,The Government?,Following this review, the Government is planning to launch a consultation in April 2004 on a revision,conduct its own review of the last five years, and now publishes this report as a commentary on the Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/shows-promise-but-must-try-harder-an-assessment-by-the-sdc-of-the-governments-reported-progress-on-sustainable-development-over-the-past-five-years

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

Alison Brogan

3 October 2025

Posted in

Policy
Consultation responses

Other Regulation

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

Review of the Scottish Drugs Forum

external reviews of voluntary organisations in receipt of major recurring grants from the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/review-of-the-scottish-drugs-forum

Cancer charity appoints new CEO

NEWS 18 January 2023 by Rab Armour

Management

Health & Social Care

New governance structure at charity

https://tfn.scot/news/cancer-charity-appoints-new-ceo

In Real Life : Climate adaptation in Oxgangs, Edinburgh Edible Estates

Sarah McArthur

8 April 2026

Posted in

Growing Climate Confidence

Climate crisis

Scotland’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 50% since 1990; and from central government

https://scvo.scot/p/104173/2026/04/08/in-real-life-climate-adaptation-in-oxgangs-edinburgh-edible-estates

How we produced SCVO’s AI policy

John Fitzgerald

1 October 2025

Posted in

Support & learning
Digital

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