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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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Business Resilience Survey 2018

providers are doing based on a series of measures relating to general levels of optimism, finance, procurement,More than half of respondents (53%) said that they had chosen to not engage with a procurement process

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/business-resilience-survey-2018

The Reuse Consortium Story and Impact Report

Many public sector organisations want to increase their circular and local procurement but have struggled,Circular Communities Scotland started the Reuse Consortium in 2016 to make sustainable procurement from

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-reuse-consortium-story-and-impact-report

SCVO Response: Finance and Public Administration Committee Inquiry into the Scottish Budget Process in practice

Sheghley Ogilvie
24 March 2025
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About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to questions 2, 3, 9 and 10 of the Finance and Public Administration Committee’s Inquiry into the Scottish budget process in practice. Question 2: Please set out any barriers to meeting the four core objectives of the...

https://scvo.scot/p/97983/2025/03/24/scvo-response-finance-and-public-administration-committee-inquiry-into-the-scottish-budget-process-in-practice

SCVO Briefing: Medium Term Financial Strategy

Sheghley Ogilvie
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

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

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/supporting-collaboration-between-the-third-and-public-sectors-evidence-review

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

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/ncvo-policy-paper-how-voluntary-and-community-organisations-can-help-transform-public-services

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...

https://scvo.scot/support/shifting-sands/economy

Growing Climate Confidence: what we've learnt

Beth Mukushi
8 July 2024
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It’s been a year since we launched our Growing Climate Confidence project. In the spirit of open working I’m sharing some reflections on what we’ve learned, and what we will be doing next. If you don’t have time for whole article here are the key messages: We know most voluntary...

https://scvo.scot/p/92794/2024/07/08/growing-climate-confidence-what-weve-learnt

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

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/community-wealth-building-approaches-relevant-to-rural-and-island-communities

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...

https://scvo.scot/the-gathering/round-up-2022

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2025. 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.