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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 Supporting Partners programme provides funding to projects that will improve support for Service partners and spouses regarding the skills and experiences they bring to the workplace. Projects should have a positive, lasting impact for partners of Serving Personnel or Reservists based in the UK or overseas.Your project will need to show that it will improve access to support, and will celebrate the skills and experiences spouses and partners bring to the workplace.Your project must meet one of the following aims.- Enable partners to access knowledge and information that’s relevant to employment opportunities.- Improve access to education, training, and qualifications for partners.- Communicate the skills and experiences that partners are able to bring to the workplace.Project ideas should be hands on, impactful and targeted. You could explore ways of upskilling partners of Serving Personnel or Reservists through training, education and qualifications. Your projects might support partners to access paid employment, by finding ways to connect more partners to existing support.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0R3z00000PUiTyEAL/armed-forces-covenant-fund-supporting-partners-programme

Green finance, land reform and a just transition to net zero - a discussion paper

fiscal measures on the land market and identifies a suite of interventions by which the Scottish Government,use, ensuring that any future fiscal measures are fully aligned to delivering the full range of Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/green-finance-land-reform-and-a-just-transition-to-net-zero-a-discussion-paper

SCVO Water Rates Exemption Scheme: charity feedback 2017

To inform the 2017 Scottish Government review of the water rates exemption scheme, SCVO collected feedback,Attachments: SCVO's recommendations to Scottish Government, based on survey responses Full survey response

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/scvo-water-rates-exemption-scheme-charity-feedback-2017

Perspectives on Early Years Services: Qualitative Research with Service Users

The Scottish Government commissioned GEN and Illuminate (specialist 'drama in education' practitioners,development of the Early Years Framework which was launched in December 2008 and which the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/perspectives-on-early-years-services-qualitative-research-with-service-users

Resources needed for the voluntary sector to action Scottish Government Fair Work plans

Minister Lorna Slater, announced that all organisations that receive grant funding from Scottish Government,The announcement is part of the Scottish Government’s plans to become a Fair Work Nation by 2025.,SCVO encourage the Scottish Government to engage with voluntary sector funders and employers to ensure,Scottish Government need to work with local government, funders, and crucially, the sector, to ensure

https://scvo.scot/p/56062/2022/12/09/resources-needed-for-the-voluntary-sector-to-action-scottish-government-fair-work-plans

Life in the UK: Scotland 2024. A measure of Scotland's collective wellbeing

Democratic crisis: Trust in government and politics has reached a record low, with over three quarters,Carnegie UK urges both the London and Edinburgh governments to work on rebuilding public confidence by

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/life-in-the-uk-scotland-2024-a-measure-of-scotlands-collective-wellbeing

Public sector funding of the voluntary sector

Local authorities account for around half of all public sector funding, and Scottish Government accounts,The rest comes from NHS/Health & Social Care Partnerships, UK Government and European funds and Non-departmental

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/public-sector-funding-of-the-voluntary-sector

Food and beyond: exploring the foodbank experience

The researchers also caution that while the third sector and Scottish Government may not see foodbanks,The Scottish Government asked us to look at the implications for food policy, but what we found has a

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/food-and-beyond-exploring-the-foodbank-experience

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