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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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Pen pals break down barriers to create life-shaping cultural connections

NEWS 21 October 2021 by Gareth Jones
Families & Young People
The powerful impact of writing project in forging friendships has been highlighted as Renfrewshire Leisure and Ethnic Communities Cultural Steering Group secure a grant to continue creating cultural connections

https://tfn.scot/news/pen-pals-break-down-barriers-to-create-life-shaping-cultural-connections

Volunteering must adapt, study finds

NEWS 5 November 2019 by Gareth Jones
Health & Social Care
Volunteering can help Scottish society face some of its biggest challenges such as an ageing population and skills shortages

https://tfn.scot/news/volunteering-must-adapt-study-finds

Medical college apologises after Dean participates in “frenzies of abuse"

NEWS 3 September 2024 by Niall Christie
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Charity said David Wylie’s behaviour was below the standard expected

https://tfn.scot/news/medical-college-apologises-after-dean-participates-in-frenzies-of-abuse

Scottish Wildlife Trust purchases site bigger than Dundee after largest ever donation

NEWS 3 March 2025 by Niall Christie
Management
Environment & International
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
The nature charity plans to restore wildlife and habitats on the site to help tackle the nature and climate crises.  

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-wildlife-trust-purchases-site-bigger-than-dundee-after-largest-ever-donation

Economic disruption is essential for social change

Professor Iain Black
28 March 2022
Posted in
"Why is it so hard to implement a vision that every stakeholder, including governments supports and wants,Our economic system includes institutions, infrastructure, governance, people, stuff and finance.,It is the number governments worry about above all else and the one most regularly reported and scrutinised

https://scvo.scot/p/49645/2022/03/28/economic-disruption-is-essential-for-social-disruption

Let’s Talk Pensions

FEATURE 28 April 2017 by Alex Turnbull
Management
1 comment
TFN takes a look at the state of pension deficits in the third sector by asking three experts to answer some basic questions.

https://tfn.scot/features/lets-talk-pensions

Asking some important questions: a collation of Scottish civil society questions for UK and Scottish Governments after UK withdrawal from the European Union

Rachel Le Noan
5 October 2021
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Contributors to this report are: • Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) • Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) • Inclusion Scotland • Human Rights Consortium Scotland • Engender • Scottish Environment LINK • Citizens’ Rights Project • Scottish...

https://scvo.scot/p/45299/2021/10/05/asking-some-important-questions-a-collation-of-scottish-civil-society-questions-for-uk-and-scottish-governments-after-uk-withdrawal-from-the-european-union

Levelling Up: Are We There Yet?

Rachel Le Noan
2 March 2022
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We also believe that policy alignment between the UK and Scottish Governments is essential.,this issue, we welcome the Secretary of State’s statement in parliament last Thursday that the UK Government,We also look forward to seeing greater engagement between the voluntary sector and the UK Government

https://scvo.scot/p/49046/2022/03/02/levelling-up-are-we-there-yet

Council broke law 800 times when housing homeless as Taylor Swift and Fringe swept Edinburgh

NEWS 2 October 2024 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
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Large-scale events in Edinburgh forced the capital’s council to break the law hundreds of times by placing homeless households in unsuitable accommodation.

https://tfn.scot/news/council-broke-law-800-times-when-housing-homeless-as-taylor-swift-and-fringe-swept-edinburgh

Let’s unleash the power of people and build community wealth

Neil McInroy
25 April 2022
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including relating to derelict land, and the deployment of a community wealth building lens to Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/p/50170/2022/04/25/lets-unleash-the-power-of-people-and-build-community-wealth

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2026. 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.