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Supporting collaboration between the third and public sectors: evidence review
Those areas were: funding, meaningful collaboration, procurement and lack of trust, with lack of trust,partnerships Open communication Building trusted relationships Empowerment of communities Public sector procurement,and the third sector Approaches to public procurement Competitive tendering
The impact of rising costs on third sector organisations in Scotland.
23 July 2024
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“Budgets have been stretched to go further in order to cover increasing costs and so other activities have been curtailed or cancelled.” Inflation may have finally hit the Bank of England’s target rate, but only after three years of rising costs. The focus of much of the research...
Autumn Budget fails to consider impacts of NICs increases on voluntary sector employers
5 November 2024
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Last week, following months of speculation, Britain’s first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years. A historic moment and important opportunity.The Budget, the Chancellor promised, would invest, invest, invest, partly by raising taxes by £4...
SCVO Briefing: Scottish Budget 2025/2026
28 November 2024
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Summary SCVO and colleagues across the voluntary sector welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to deliver Fairer Funding for the sector by 2026, including exploring options to implement multi-year funding deals. Despite this renewed focus, 18 months on from the policy...
https://scvo.scot/p/95427/2024/11/28/scvo-briefing-scottish-budget-2025-2026
NCVO Policy Paper: How voluntary and community organisations can help transform public services
Short policy paper exploring current procurement processes, and how VCOs can be enabled to really transform
SCVO Briefing to Scottish Parliament: Programme for Government 2024/25
2 September 2024
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Summary SCVO and colleagues across the voluntary sector welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to deliver Fairer Funding for the sector by 2026, including exploring options to implement multi-year funding deals. Despite this renewed focus, 18 months on from the policy...
The Economy
A combination of factors look set to make 2025/26 another difficult year for voluntary sector finances: UK and Scottish economies still feeling the impact of Brexit, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis costs remaining high additional costs being levied on some voluntary...
Community Wealth Building: Approaches relevant to rural and island communities
suggest a set of possible learning points in relation to each of the five principles: Progressive procurement,: Considering the introduction of a geographicalelement to procurement to ensure processes are applicable
SCVO Briefing: Medium Term Financial Strategy
1 May 2025
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Summary SCVO and colleagues across the voluntary sector welcomed the Scottish Government’s commitment to deliver Fairer Funding for the sector by 2026, including exploring options to implement multi-year funding deals. Years of underfunding and poor funding practices, and crises...
https://scvo.scot/p/98446/2025/05/01/medium-term-financial-strategy
The Gathering 2022: a round-up
Our aims for the Gathering Wishes for the sector Gathering highlights After the Gathering The Gathering, organised by SCVO, is the largest voluntary sector event in the UK. Over two days on 15 and 16 June 2022, more than 1,500 amazing people from the voluntary sector and beyond...