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Allowing communities to call the shots

OPINION 7 July 2015 Guest post

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Marco Biagi MSP on how participatory budgeting can boost community empowerment

https://tfn.scot/opinion/how-participatory-budgeting-can-empower-communities

Is Scotland blazing a trail for low cost community energy?

OPINION 24 July 2015 by TFN

Regeneration & Housing

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Energy Action Scotland hails the launch of a new community energy scheme. But are such schemes able to realistically tackle fuel poverty?

https://tfn.scot/opinion/is-scotland-blazing-a-trail-for-low-cost-community-energy

Community services improve lives and save money

OPINION 28 October 2015 by Susan Smith

Health & Social Care

Susan Smith argues the Scottish Parliament report into loneliness highlights the need to ramp up preventative health spending

https://tfn.scot/opinion/community-services-improve-lives-and-save-money

What next for the third sector in the devolution debate?

OPINION 4 November 2014 Guest post

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Martin Sime believes the third sector still has a major role to play in helping to establish new powers for Holyrood in 2015 and beyond

https://tfn.scot/opinion/what-next-for-the-third-sector-in-the-devolution-debate

Out of the referendum, springs a new movement of civic engagement

OPINION 5 December 2014 Guest post

Social Justice & Poverty

Martin Johnstone discusses the aftermath of the referendum and Smith Commission, and where Scottish civil society most go from here

https://tfn.scot/opinion/ten-weeks

Goodmovers | 31 October 2014

FEATURE 4 November 2014 by Paul Cardwell

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Find out who has a new job in the voluntary sector in our Goodmovers round-up. Don't forget to email your new starts to [email protected]

https://tfn.scot/features/goodmovers-31-october-2014

Obituary: William George (Billy) Sloan, social enterprise chief executive

FEATURE 10 February 2015 by TFN

Social Justice & Poverty

Born: 4 February, 1967 in Glasgow. Died: 30 January, 2015 in Aberdeen.

https://tfn.scot/features/obituary-william-george-billy-sloan-social-enterprise-chief-executive

Commit to Scotland’s digital charter to end exclusion

OPINION 27 January 2016 Guest post

Social Justice & Poverty

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Alastair Watson explains why your organisation should join the growing movement of bodies committed to helping everyone participate digitally

https://tfn.scot/opinion/commit-to-scotlands-digital-charter-to-end-exclusion

First impressions of the third kind – the power of partnerships

OPINION 26 April 2016 Guest post

Families & Young People

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Colin McKerchar has worked in the voluntary sector for four months now and is feeling liberated from competitive suspicions

https://tfn.scot/opinion/first-impressions-of-the-third-kind-the-power-of-partnerships

Disabled Scots left destitute by new payments system

NEWS 3 October 2014 by Rab Armour

Health & Social Care

Disabled Scots are being left in poverty by delays in new system

https://tfn.scot/news/disabled-scots-left-destitute-by-new-system

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Allowing communities to call the shots

Is Scotland blazing a trail for low cost community energy?

Community services improve lives and save money

What next for the third sector in the devolution debate?

Out of the referendum, springs a new movement of civic engagement

Goodmovers | 31 October 2014

Obituary: William George (Billy) Sloan, social enterprise chief executive

Commit to Scotland’s digital charter to end exclusion

First impressions of the third kind – the power of partnerships

Disabled Scots left destitute by new payments system

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