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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

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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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

The Digital Participation Charter Fund is back!

Fund is administered by SCVO, and Round 9 is delivered in partnership with Fund sponsors Scottish Government,“The Digital Citizen Division in Scottish Government is delighted to be working in partnership with SCVO,outcomes for the people of Scotland.”Eilidh McLaughlin, Head of Digital Citizen Unit, Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/p/62763/2023/10/03/the-digital-participation-charter-fund-is-back

North Ayrshire: A case study on Kindness. (September 2020)

kindness’ begins by revisiting our starting ambition to reframe the relationship between local government,kindness, which we hope will feel relevant and urgent not just for North Ayrshire, but for local government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/north-ayrshire-a-case-study-on-kindness-september-2020

Shifting the Dial in Scotland

It draws on research to explore how governments can better measure what matters to people.,measuring wellbeing, rather than just GDP, can improve the lives of the people of Scotland because government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/shifting-the-dial-in-scotland

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2010

This report, using official government data, is built around a set of 50 indicators.,is too soon for the data in this report to reflect any impact of new policies from the Coalition Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/monitoring-poverty-and-social-exclusion-2010

SPICe Briefing: Autism (Scotland) Bill

The purpose of the Bill is to place a statutory duty on the Scottish Government to prepare and publish,It outlines the recommendations made in the Scottish Government?

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/spice-briefing-autism-scotland-bill

Consultation on Public Sector Equality Duty Specific Duties: Analysis of Responses

In order to streamline and strengthen existing equality legislation, the UK Government introduced the,In order to help decide what form these specific duties might take the Scottish Government launched a

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/consultation-on-public-sector-equality-duty-specific-duties-analysis-of-responses

Shaping equality and fairness after the recession

The seminars were designed to enable participants from government, NGOs, business, academia and think,the relative share of responsibility for the crisis between financial institutions, regulators, government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/shaping-equality-and-fairness-after-the-recession

Evaluation of the National Mortgage to Rent Scheme

This report describes the results of research commissioned by the Scottish Government to evaluate the,The scheme is funded and operated by the Scottish Government.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/evaluation-of-the-national-mortgage-to-rent-scheme

SCVO additional evidence to the UK Government's Energy Bills Relief Scheme Review

If, as suggested, changes are to be made to the type of support available, we hope the UK Government,It is vital that the UK Government understands that the issue of rising energy costs is faced by large,For some, no support from the UK or Scottish Governments will almost certainly mean having to close their,changes are to be made to the type of support available post-March 2023, we would hope to see the UK Government,above, supplementary to any responses to the survey, which SCVO has promoted widely, that the UK Government

https://scvo.scot/p/54967/2022/10/31/scvo-additional-evidence-to-the-uk-governments-energy-bills-relief-scheme-review

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