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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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Communication must be prioritised as a basic human right say campaigners

NEWS 4 September 2025 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
More than 200 gathered at Holyrood

https://tfn.scot/news/communication-must-be-prioritised-as-a-basic-human-right-say-campaigners

Scotland to lead way with groundbreaking homelessness pilot

NEWS 12 September 2025 by Niall Christie
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
Advice Direct Scotland said the nation can lead the world in tackling the issue

https://tfn.scot/news/scotland-to-lead-way-with-groundbreaking-homelessness-pilot

“Point of no return”: Warning over Scotland’s social care crisis 

NEWS 17 September 2025 by Niall Christie
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Unite the Union puts workers’ demands centre of nationwide campaign to fix critical sector. 

https://tfn.scot/news/point-of-no-return-warning-over-scotlands-social-care-crisis

NGO warns aid cuts put “millions of children’s lives at risk”

NEWS 19 March 2025 by Niall Christie
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) outlined the dire consequences of cutting UK aid spending.

https://tfn.scot/news/ngo-warns-aid-cuts-put-millions-of-childrens-lives-at-risk

Win for Scottish sector as audit threshold to double

NEWS 27 March 2025 by Rab Armour
Management
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Change will help thousands of charities

https://tfn.scot/news/win-for-scottish-sector-as-audit-threshold-to-double

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

Procurement will be the death of us

OPINION 8 April 2014 Guest post
Management
3 comments
Buying human services in the same way one buys pencils or sacks of cement is to ignore the human aspect, argues Martin Sime, chief executive of SCVO

https://tfn.scot/opinion/procurement-will-be-the-death-of-us

Daily coronavirus roundup for third sector Monday 25 May

NEWS 25 May 2020 by Rab Armour
Regeneration & Housing
How the sector is responding to the crisis

https://tfn.scot/news/daily-coronavirus-roundup-for-third-sector-monday-25-may

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

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

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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.