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Data tables for the 2025 Scottish Voluntary Sector Workforce Survey.All survey questions and their associated data tables have been made available, excluding open text responses.

The aim of this research was to provide HEACS with 1. an overview of the structure and operations of a cross-section of intermediary bodies in the voluntary sector and 2. an assessment of the key characteristics that contribute to the successful and effective operations of such...

This paper is the first output of our State of the Sector programme, aimed at injecting new thinking and ideas about how sector leaders in the UK can respond to the changing environment. It brings together our practice and thinking to identify what are, in our view, the critical...

This report presents the findings of the 2016 Charity Commission study into public trust and confidence in charities, conducted by Populus. The research monitors the level of public trust and confidence in the charity sector as well as other key questions. It also explores the...

Key to the third sector?s success are the voluntary boards which are responsible for ensuring that third sector organisations are run well. Existing research into third sector boards has found that many experience difficulties recruiting new and appropriately skilled board...

CRER research examining whether there is underrepresentation of minority ethnic people on charity boards,, with a focus on the top charities in Glasgow by income. CRER identified ethnicity and gender for each of the trustees for all 426 of the charities in sample pool through a...

contracting arrangements Ineffective safeguards and regulation Greater protection for independent governance

information (FOI) is generating new arrangements for managing information, thereby supporting government's,managed within Scottish public bodies the paper also casts light on the practice of democratic government

About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Government consultation on,contributing member of the SCIO Dissolution Working Group 2019 and we therefore welcome the Scottish Government’s,Despite our support for the Scottish Government’s commitment to progressing the recommendations of the,With this in mind, we would like to use this opportunity to again call for the Scottish Government to,SCIO’s dissolution application.However, we ask the Scottish Government to consider further extending