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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 UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a UK-wide fund launched as a domestic replacement to the EU Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). It is a core component of the UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda. The funding will be targeted at the three following priority areas:- Communities and Place - Thriving Places: Development of the visitor economy and improving well-being. - Supporting Local Business: Advice and support to businesses, developing an enterprise culture and start-up support and developing business sites and premises. - People and Skills: Supporting people to progress towards and into employment or education, supporting essential skills and delivering higher level, employment related skills.Current funds are:- Development of the Visitor Economy challenge fund- Youth Diversionary Activities challenge fund- Employment Related Skills (Green and Digital Skills) challenge fund- SME Support and Upskilling challenge fund- Adult Numeracy Programme challenge fund

https://funding.scot/funds/a0R3z00000PUvIoEAL/dundee-city-council-the-uk-shared-prosperity-fund

The fund aims to deliver inclusive community-based activity to meet one or more of the Scottish Government priorities of:- Tackling the climate emergency- Eradicating child poverty - Growing the economy - Ensuring high quality and sustainable public services Grants will be targeted towards activities or infrastructure that support one or more of the following priorities: - Build community capacity to facilitate and support local development - Help the economy of the Park to deliver Net Zero by supporting communities and existing businesses (priority theme) - Attract, support and retain young people in the National Park - Increase community service provision in the National Park (priority theme)- Cultural Heritage and Recreation - Creating a Well-Being economyCairngorms CLV encourages applications from businesses (micro & small enterprises) and groups for projects that will deliver for the communities of the Cairngorms National Park. Projects could be completely new capital activity or capital items; or can be additional capital within existing projects. Where possible projects will be encouraged to work in partnership with others to deliver their projects. They would like to see a variety of applications ranging from small actions to larger more strategic projects.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0R3z00000Pxad8EAB/cairngorms-trust-cairngorms-community-led-vision-fund

The Family Focus programme offers grants of between £50,000 and £100,000 to fund projects that explore and pilot solutions for family members - collectively and as individuals - of wounded, injured and sick serving personnel or Veterans.Your project will need to meet one or more of the following outcomes:- Family members of those who are wounded, injured or sick feel better informed and more able to access relevant information, advice and guidance, applicable to their situation.- Family members of those who are wounded, injured or sick feel less lonely/isolated, more resilient and better equipped to deal with their circumstances.- Family members of those who are wounded, injured and sick have developed their skills for work, or have greater confidence to pursue volunteering or employment when it’s right for them.The focus for 2025/26 is supporting projects that test new ideas, refine successful pilots, or expand services developed in the past five years, provided they are not part of an organisation's core work.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0RP1000005aP0DMAU/armed-forces-covenant-fund-trust-family-focus-programme

Close to Home: UK poverty and the economic downturn

The UK government has recognised its responsibility to help people through the recession, but needs to,It argues that government action should be based upon a long-term vision of moving to a society based

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/close-to-home-uk-poverty-and-the-economic-downturn

A review of the Scottish Executive's Policies to promote the Social Economy

This is reflected by work being undertaken by the UK Government following the publication in 2002 of,Voluntary Sector which the Executive will be undertaking jointly with the sector and with local government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/a-review-of-the-scottish-executives-policies-to-promote-the-social-economy

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