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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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Scottish Government foot dragging on pollution will cost lives

NEWS 5 May 2017 by Rab Armour
Environment & International
Pollution strategy is costing lives according to campaigners

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-gov-foot-dragging-on-climate-will-cost-lives

New covenant will rekindle sector's right-to-protest promises Starmer

NEWS 18 July 2025 by Rab Armour
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
#Society
Tory governments introduced gagging clauses

https://tfn.scot/news/new-covenant-will-rekindle-sectors-right-to-protest-promises-starmer

Has the government deliberately covered up sanction figures?

NEWS 4 August 2015 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
UK government accused of covering up true extent of "pernicious" sanction regime

https://tfn.scot/news/has-the-government-deliberately-covered-up-sanction-figures

Gaza aid blocks “appalling and unacceptable”, government admits

NEWS 5 May 2025 by Niall Christie
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Funding & Finance
UK Government raises alarm about the effect on aid and to aid workers

https://tfn.scot/news/gaza-aid-blocks-appalling-and-unacceptable-government-admits

Power given to Scots MSPs over fracking

NEWS 14 January 2015 by Rab Armour
Environment & International
Scottish excluded from Westminster fracking legislation

https://tfn.scot/news/power-given-to-scots-msps-over-fracking

Regulator reminds housing bodies to obey the rules

NEWS 20 April 2017 by Rab Armour
Regeneration & Housing
Regulator has been forced to intervene in the running of two housing associations and says it is because they did not follow their own rules

https://tfn.scot/news/regulator-reminds-housing-bodies-to-obey-the-rules

Campaigners welcome moves to ban conversion therapy

NEWS 11 May 2021 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
Outdated and harmful practice should be outlawed

https://tfn.scot/news/campaigners-welcome-moves-to-ban-conversion-therapy

Regulator to continue governing Muirhouse Housing

NEWS 10 June 2015 by Rab Armour
Regeneration & Housing
Housing association not yet fit to govern its own affairs after serious financial failings

https://tfn.scot/news/regulator-to-continue-governing-muirhouse-housing

Suspension of the Scottish Government’s national frameworks for the Supply of Electricity and Supply of Natural Gas - Letter to the Minister

Paul Bradley
26 January 2023
Posted in
written to Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, to urge the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/p/56929/2023/01/26/suspension-of-the-scottish-governments-national-frameworks-for-the-supply-of-electricity-and-supply-of-natural-gas-letter-to-the-minister

Increase Child Benefit or fund foodbanks?

POLL 8 July 2016 by Alex Turnbull
Families & Young People
2 comments
Food poverty experts have called on the Scottish Government to increase Child Benefit by £5 a week rather than fund foodbanks - do you agree?

https://tfn.scot/polls/increase-child-benefit-or-fund-foodbanks

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2026. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.