Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Early signs of recovery in volunteering participation in Scotland

OPINION 19 September 2025 by Debbie Maltman and Bethany Sikes

Management

Culture & Leisure

With today’s news about volunteer participation increasing, Debbie Maltman and Bethany Sikes dig into the numbers.

https://tfn.scot/opinion/early-signs-of-recovery-in-volunteering-participation-in-scotland

6 ingredients of change

LIST 6 April 2017 by Susan Smith

Regeneration & Housing

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Wonder why your charity’s campaign hasn’t worked? Susan Smith examines the six elements you need for a successful campaign

https://tfn.scot/lists/6-ingredients-of-change

SCVO response to the Finance and Public Administration Committee Resource Spending Review Framework

Allan Young

2 February 2022

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Policy reports

Overview The Scottish Government has published a ‘consultative framework document’ on its forthcoming,Resource Spending is the spending on day-to-day running costs of government programmes and administration,How clearly does the framework set out the Scottish Government’s priorities for the resource spending,Both local and national government in Scotland have relied heavily on the voluntary sector to support,Ultimately this is hampering the Scottish Government’s ability to address its core priorities.

https://scvo.scot/p/48798/2022/02/02/scvo-response-to-the-finance-and-public-administration-committee-resource-spending-review-framework

SCVO Scottish Budget Summary 2021

Sheghley Ogilvie

18 January 2022

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Policy reports

Parliamentary scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s Budget proposals will now take place.,Committee and plenary discussions will weigh up the Scottish Government’s plans.,This budget line pays for many of the Scottish Government's recent commitments.,The Scottish Government has cited the UK government’s lack of multi-year spending reviews as being the,If Scottish Government funding increased by an average of £4.6 billion per year.

https://scvo.scot/p/48296/2022/01/18/scvo-scottish-budget-summary-2021

SCVO’s Organisational Purpose

Tracey Bird

22 February 2021

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Support & learning

Governance

Last week the SCVO Board met and one of the items on the agenda was to look at the Scottish Governance,Code for the Third Sector and explore how SCVO trustees can evidence good governance, individually and,Over the course of this year the SCVO board will use SCVO’s Good Governance Checkup to examine each of,the five principles of the Governance Code, so we can demonstrate good governance in the Scotland’s,If you’d like to take your own Board on a journey to good governance you can use SCVO’s Good Governance

https://scvo.scot/p/42399/2021/02/22/scvos-organisational-purpose