Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Inspiring Scotland - Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund

Currently Closed

The Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund seeks to inspire, encourage, and enable communities to explore and deliver ambitious ecosystem restoration projects locally. It also seeks to raise awareness about the importance of local ecosystem restoration and address barriers faced by community-led efforts. They are most interested in funding the development stages and successful organisations will also receive professional fundraising support to move their projects from development stage to delivery.Your project must focus on one (or more) parts of ecosystem restoration. These are:- Connecting nature corridors- Habitat and species restoration- Freshwater and wetland restoration- Coastal and marine initiatives- Control of invasive non-native species impacting on nature- Enhancing and connecting nature within villages, towns, or citiesThis Fund is supported by the Carman Family Foundation, the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund, which is managed by NatureScot, and others. Inspiring Scotland is administering this funding.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0RP1000004TScwMAG/inspiring-scotland-neighbourhood-ecosystem-fund

Climate Emergency Training: How Scotland’s voluntary sector is rising to respond to the risks, responsibilities and opportunities ahead

Katie Murray

15 January 2024

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Climate crisis

Initially, this training was provided though our management of the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge

https://scvo.scot/p/87659/2024/01/15/climate-emergency-training-how-scotlands-voluntary-sector-is-rising-to-respond-to-the-risks-responsibilities-and-opportunities-ahead

Charities Aid Foundation Charity Landscape 2022

Government While charity leaders agree that over the next five years government will view charities as,service providers (69%), charities in Scotland and Northern Ireland are more likely to feel government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/charities-aid-foundation-charity-landscape-2022

Environment and the Economy: Helping Scotland to Flourish

New discussion paper making a strong plea for a national consensus on a new goal of government, with,preoccupation with economic growth distorts priorities, the paper calls for a shift of emphasis in government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/environment-and-the-economy-helping-scotland-to-flourish

The UK Civil Society Almanac 2022

Income from both central and local government, which make up a quarter (26%) of all sector income, has,This particularly effects larger charities with over £1m income, who depend primarily (87%) on government,Government spending cuts2 have already resulted in charities closing vital programmes.,Income from grants and government contracts has also declined.,Contracts made up the majority (82%) of all income from government almost a decade ago in 2010/11, but

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-uk-civil-society-almanac-2022

Tackling Multiple Deprivation in Communities: Considering the Evidence

Services and the Regeneration Division within the Housing and Regeneration Directorate of the Scottish Government,relevant published and unpublished research commissioned by Communities Scotland and the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/tackling-multiple-deprivation-in-communities-considering-the-evidence

Finding the Way: employability and the prevention and alleviation of homelessness

Links are made to Scottish Government policy, such as the Government Economic Strategy discussion, Skills

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/finding-the-way-employability-and-the-prevention-and-alleviation-of-homelessness

Adaptation to a changing climate: today's investments in tomorrow's climate

The UK Government, scientists, academia, non-government organisations (NGOs), businesses and financial

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/adaptation-to-a-changing-climate-todays-investments-in-tomorrows-climate

The future of funding for Equality and Human Rights

The UK government has committed to replacing these funds with a ‘UK Shared Prosperity Fund’ after Brexit,that evidence from the broadest range of individuals and regions across GB will be valuable as the government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-future-of-funding-for-equality-and-human-rights

The Enabling State:From Rhetoric to Reality

CASE STUDIES As economic, demographic and environmental challenges mount, governments are under increasing,Carnegie UK Trust is arguing that in these challenging times it is more pressing than ever for governments

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-enabling-statefrom-rhetoric-to-reality

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