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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
Response to Social Justice and Social Security Committee Pre-budget Scrutiny: Third sector funding principles
13 August 2024
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Ensuring that all public grant funding and procured contracts have both the real Living Wage and annual,recognised that the voluntary sector faces barriers to implementation and that poor funding and procurement
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
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
SCVO Response: Finance and Public Administration Committee Inquiry into the Scottish Budget Process in practice
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...
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
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
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...