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What is Fair Funding?
The voluntary sector needs a funding landscape that is fair, flexible, sustainable, and accessible to ensure that organisations can provide the services and projects that are crucial to communities across Scotland. This can only be achieved by guaranteeing Fair Funding that...
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SCVO Briefing to Scottish Parliament: Programme for Government 2024/25
2 September 2024
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Summary SCVO and colleagues across the voluntary sector welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to deliver Fairer Funding for the sector by 2026, including exploring options to implement multi-year funding deals. Despite this renewed focus, 18 months on from the policy...
Sector's role in the economy
We work with partners including the Fraser of Allander Institute and the Royal Society of Edinburgh to better understand and articulate the voluntary sector’s role in the economy.
Board of trustees
Bushra also served as a Diversity and Equality Advisor at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service,Executive Group representing the voluntary sector in an advisory capacity to inform Scottish policy and procurement
Autumn Budget fails to consider impacts of NICs increases on voluntary sector employers
5 November 2024
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Last week, following months of speculation, Britain’s first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years. A historic moment and important opportunity.The Budget, the Chancellor promised, would invest, invest, invest, partly by raising taxes by £4...
Response to Social Justice and Social Security Committee Pre-budget Scrutiny: Third sector funding principles
13 August 2024
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Ensuring that all public grant funding and procured contracts have both the real Living Wage and annual,recognised that the voluntary sector faces barriers to implementation and that poor funding and procurement
Finance and Public Administration Committee Debate Briefing: Scottish Budget 2025/26
27 January 2025
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Summary Scotland’s voluntary sector plays an essential role in supporting people and communities across Scotland and is central to the Scottish Government’s ambitions to eradicate child poverty, grow the economy​, tackle the climate emergency, and improve public services. Without...
SCVO Briefing: Scottish Budget 2025/2026
28 November 2024
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Summary SCVO and colleagues across the voluntary sector welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to deliver Fairer Funding for the sector by 2026, including exploring options to implement multi-year funding deals. Despite this renewed focus, 18 months on from the policy...
https://scvo.scot/p/95427/2024/11/28/scvo-briefing-scottish-budget-2025-2026
Charity to expand services after cash injection
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4 October 2024
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1st Step will benefit from funding from the Scottish Procurement Alliance.Â
https://tfn.scot/news/charity-to-expand-services-after-cash-injection
Help shape SCVO’s response to the Scottish Government's Community Wealth Building Bill ConsultationÂ
23 March 2023
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institutions such as hospitals, universities and local government, who can exert influence through their procurement,and assets that focus on service to the public over profit maximization and linking them to the procurement,Community Wealth Building touches upon SCVO’s existing work on procurement, fair funding, the living