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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

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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Lack of credit costing the poorest dearest

NEWS 18 November 2025 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#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

Charity banking system still causing chaos - now there are calls for an inquiry

NEWS 8 July 2025 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
1 comment
Cancer charity tells TFN it can't access £25k it has promised a hospice

https://tfn.scot/news/charity-banking-system-failure-still-causing-chaos-now-there-are-calls-for-an-inquiry

Campaign launches to help charity bridge huge shortfall in funds

NEWS 7 August 2025 by Rab Armour
Management
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
#RunningCostsCrisis
#CostOfLivingCrisis
Running costs rocket but demand for services is at all time high

https://tfn.scot/news/campaign-launches-to-help-charity-bridge-huge-shortfall-in-funds

Protecting children from criminal exploitation

NEWS 26 April 2024 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Action for Children’s service to help children coerced into exploitative criminal activity in Edinburgh launched in November 2020

https://tfn.scot/news/protecting-children-from-criminal-exploitation

No easy journey: families punished by barriers to prison visits

NEWS 30 April 2024 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Failure to support contact impacts the family, who have not committed an offence but nevertheless suffer the consequences

https://tfn.scot/news/no-easy-journey-families-punished-by-barriers-to-prison-visits

Charities revolt at prospect of devastating cuts to Edinburgh’s community organisations

NEWS 29 October 2024 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
The council may step in and cover shortfalls for the remainder of this financial year.

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-revolt-at-prospect-of-devastating-cuts-to-edinburghs-community-organisations

Show must go on: community theatre fights for survival amid demolition threat

NEWS 29 October 2024 by Graham Martin
Culture & Leisure
This follows the discovery of dangerous, ‘bubbly’ RAAC concrete in 2023

https://tfn.scot/news/show-must-go-on-community-theatre-fights-for-survival-amid-demolition-threat

Research bolsters push to get children and parents excited about hobbies

NEWS 15 January 2026 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Hobbies have huge developmental attributes

https://tfn.scot/news/research-bolsters-push-to-get-children-and-parents-excited-about-hobbies

Accounts reveal continued financial trouble at Scottish health charity 

NEWS 1 May 2026 by Niall Christie
Management
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
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MND Scotland lost over £800,000 in the year to March 2025

https://tfn.scot/news/accounts-reveal-continued-financial-trouble-at-scottish-health-charity

Care services could be hit as frontline charity staff vote on strike

NEWS 22 June 2026 by Graham Martin
Management
Health & Social Care
Unite says there have been huge discrepancies between pay awards to senior management and other staff

https://tfn.scot/news/care-services-could-be-hit-as-frontline-charity-staff-vote-on-strike

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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.