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Lack of credit costing the poorest dearest

NEWS 18 November 2025 by Rab Armour

Families & Young People

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Social Justice & Poverty

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#CostOfLivingCrisis

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Low-income families are trapped in a cycle of exorbitant lending rates

https://tfn.scot/news/lack-of-credit-costing-the-poorest-dearest

Easy money: is foundation giving the future of charity funding, or is it just a lottery?

FEATURE 18 October 2018 by Susan Smith

Funding & Finance

Trusts and foundations are becoming ever more important in the face of drastic public spending cuts. TFN finds out how the sector is coping with demand.

https://tfn.scot/features/easy-money-is-foundation-giving-the-future-of-charity-funding-or-is-it-just

Rowntree Charitable Trust defends funding Cage

NEWS 3 March 2015 by Rab Armour

Funding & Finance

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Charity Commission investigates JRCT for funding controversial group which defended "Jihadi John"

https://tfn.scot/news/rowntree-trust-defends-funding-cage

Blowing the whistle in the third sector

OPINION 18 December 2018 Guest post

Management

Jamie Meechan analyses the latest report on whistleblowing within Scotland's charity sector

https://tfn.scot/opinion/blowing-the-whistle-in-the-third-sector

Investments needn’t be a minefield

OPINION 12 February 2019 Guest post

Management

Investments needn’t be a minefield

https://tfn.scot/opinion/investments-neednt-be-a-minefield

Save Your Outdoor Centres – they are Never More Needed than now

OPINION 14 September 2020 Guest post

Families & Young People

Liz Smith MSP on why she’s championing the Save Your Outdoor Centres campaign in the Scottish Parliament

https://tfn.scot/opinion/save-our-outdoor-centres-they-are-never-more-needed-than-now

Song of the Clyde: saving Scotland’s greatest river

FEATURE 23 February 2018 by Graham Martin

Environment & International

How the community and voluntary sector is reviving Scotland's greatest river

https://tfn.scot/features/song-of-the-clyde-saving-scotlands-greatest-river

#ChristiePlus10: Radical Scotland? Not yet, but we can be if we choose.

OPINION 28 July 2021 by Adam Lang

Management

Social Justice & Poverty

#NeverMoreNeeded

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#ChristiePlus10: a series of expert blogs reflecting on ten years since the publication of the Christie Commission.

https://tfn.scot/opinion/christieplus10-radical-scotland-not-yet-but-we-can-be-if-we-choose

Scotland publishes plan that aims to build a country that cares

NEWS 31 March 2021 by Gareth Jones

Families & Young People

Plan 21-24 is the first of three plans created on the back of the Independent Care Review

https://tfn.scot/news/scotland-publishes-plan-that-aims-to-build-a-country-that-cares

Deadliest period on record for aid workers this World Humanitarian Day

NEWS 19 August 2025 by Niall Christie

Management

Social Justice & Poverty

Environment & International

Health & Social Care

Over 400 humanitarian workers have been killed since October 2023 in Gaza

https://tfn.scot/news/deadliest-period-on-record-for-aid-workers-this-world-humanitarian-day

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Lack of credit costing the poorest dearest

Easy money: is foundation giving the future of charity funding, or is it just a lottery?

Rowntree Charitable Trust defends funding Cage

Blowing the whistle in the third sector

Investments needn’t be a minefield

Save Your Outdoor Centres – they are Never More Needed than now

Song of the Clyde: saving Scotland’s greatest river

#ChristiePlus10: Radical Scotland? Not yet, but we can be if we choose.

Scotland publishes plan that aims to build a country that cares

Deadliest period on record for aid workers this World Humanitarian Day

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