Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Mountain drama as air ambulance makes 1000th call-out

NEWS 30 March 2016 by Paul Cardwell

Health & Social Care

57-year-old man had to evacuated to hospital suffering severe from chest pains

https://tfn.scot/news/hilltop-drama-as-air-ambulance-makes-1000th-call-out

Scotland’s top youth worker has been named

NEWS 14 March 2016 by Paul Cardwell

Families & Young People

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20-year-old sports coach and mentor Natasha Kerr takes the title at the National Youth Worker of the Year Awards 2016

https://tfn.scot/news/scotlands-top-youth-worker-has-been-named

Let’s hear it for Scotland’s invaluable volunteers

NEWS 31 May 2016 by Graham Martin

Management

The vital value volunteers provide to the third sector in Scotland is being celebrated this week

https://tfn.scot/news/lets-hear-it-for-scotlands-invaluable-volunteers

All young refugees to be given a Young Scot card

NEWS 7 June 2016 by Paul Cardwell

Families & Young People

Charity promises to help refugees as it launches new three year strategy to make Scotland the best place in the world for everyone to grow up in

https://tfn.scot/news/all-young-refugees-to-be-given-a-young-scot-card

Why do we need a third sector anyway?

OPINION 19 August 2015 by Susan Smith

Social Justice & Poverty

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Susan Smith argues that creating a fairer society requires a third sector willing to mount a challenge to growing external criticism

https://tfn.scot/opinion/why-do-we-need-a-third-sector-anyway

Conditions set to get tougher for charities

OPINION 31 July 2020 by Gareth Jones

Health & Social Care

Gareth Jones analyses the financial struggles organisations have battled over the last few months, and why they are #NeverMoreNeeded than now

https://tfn.scot/opinion/conditions-set-to-get-tougher-for-charities

Charity chief’s Nepal rescue mission

NEWS 1 May 2015 by Graham Martin

Environment & International

The head of a medical charity has told of his anguish at not knowing if his loved ones were safe after they were caught up in the Nepal earthquake

https://tfn.scot/news/charity-chiefs-nepal-rescue-mission

Fear charities won’t be able to meet demand created by welfare cuts

NEWS 22 July 2015 by Paul Cardwell

Social Justice & Poverty

Society's most vulnerable could slip through the net due to charities workloads being increased as a result of welfare cuts blasts SCVO

https://tfn.scot/news/scvo-blasts-welfare-cuts-warning

Exposed: Scotland’s target-driven sanction regime

NEWS 26 August 2015 by Rab Armour

Social Justice & Poverty

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Sanctions appear arbitrary but are being driven by targets imposed on Jobcentre managers by the DWP

https://tfn.scot/news/exposed-scotlands-target-driven-sanction-regime

EXCLUSIVE: Union makes legal bid to force charity to cooperate

NEWS 4 December 2018 by Graham Martin

Management

A union is taking legal advice in an unprecedented bid to force a major care charity to cooperate in the latest twist in a bitter industrial dispute

https://tfn.scot/news/exclusive-union-bid-to-force-recognition-on-charity

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Mountain drama as air ambulance makes 1000th call-out

Scotland’s top youth worker has been named

Let’s hear it for Scotland’s invaluable volunteers

All young refugees to be given a Young Scot card

Why do we need a third sector anyway?

Conditions set to get tougher for charities

Charity chief’s Nepal rescue mission

Fear charities won’t be able to meet demand created by welfare cuts

Exposed: Scotland’s target-driven sanction regime

EXCLUSIVE: Union makes legal bid to force charity to cooperate

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