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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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Guide to low-cost digital

Scottish Government have extended the scheme to include third sector organisations.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/guide-to-low-cost-digital

Knowledge bank

Knowledge bank

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/digital-inclusion-in-health-and-care/knowledge-bank

Scotland’s resilient third sector through the cost-of-living crisis: insights from new research by Erin Cutroneo

Steve Grozier
3 November 2025
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Scottish Government has acknowledged the challenges faced by the sector, recently committed to implementing,Third Sector-Scottish Government Relations: Participants had mixed views on the sector’s relationship,with government.,Fair Funding: All participants emphasised the power of government implementing Fair Funding principles,Government should also tailor policy and support by organisation type, capacity, and mission to support

https://scvo.scot/p/101739/2025/11/03/scotlands-resilient-third-sector-through-the-cost-of-living-crisis-insights-from-new-research

SCVO response to Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) 

Press release
26 June 2025
for Voluntary Organisations' (SCVO) Head of Policy and Research, said: “To achieve the Scottish Government’s,Third Sector in Scotland, the Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) needed to set out the Scottish Government’s,welcome, if, as she suggests, multi-year funding is to be one of the policy solutions the Scottish Government,funding much wider than the current pilot, to voluntary organisations contributing to Scottish Government,"Our sector makes a significant contribution to the Scottish economy and the government’s ambitions to

https://scvo.scot/p/99042/2025/06/26/scvo-response-to-medium-term-financial-strategy-mtfs

Regulator warns charity over six figure payoff

NEWS 22 August 2018 by Rab Armour
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Governance review results in commission criticising trustees

https://tfn.scot/news/regulator-warns-charity-over-six-figure-payoff

Creating community: village halls & community spaces

kept very busy with having responsibility for our Digital Evolution, Events, Funding, Learning Governance

https://scvo.scot/support/village-community-halls/conference

SCA Community Learning Exchange

Jill Keegan
30 November 2025
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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

The Scottish third sector tracker - wave 11 (Autumn 2025)

Steve Grozier
3 February 2026
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for additional staff and volunteer capacity, specialist skills (especially digital, fundraising, governance

https://scvo.scot/p/103256/2026/02/03/the-scottish-third-sector-tracker-wave-11-autumn-2025

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

New research underlines pressures on third sector workforce and services

Press release
29 December 2025
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

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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.