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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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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

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

Big Noise programme generating "positive and sustained" change

NEWS 23 June 2026 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Culture & Leisure
Report shows how charity-run service delivers critical support to children facing disadvantage

https://tfn.scot/news/big-noise-programme-generating-positive-and-sustained-change

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

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

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

Rape crisis centres form alliance to combat rise in sexual violence against women and girls

NEWS 10 March 2026 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
All four founding members of the SRCA have announced their disaffiliation from Rape Crisis Scotland

https://tfn.scot/news/rape-crisis-centres-form-alliance-to-combat-rise-in-sexual-violence-against-women-and-girls

Community path fund leaves a lasting legacy across Scotland 

NEWS 25 March 2026 by Graham Martin
Environment & International
Culture & Leisure
Funding & Finance
62 projects funded to improve local walking routes 

https://tfn.scot/news/community-path-fund-leaves-a-lasting-legacy-across-scotland

When spaces close, communities feel it: why Unity Hub matters in Glasgow’s east end

OPINION 7 May 2026 by Nkechi First
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
Nkechi First: “when traditional community infrastructure is under pressure, there is an opportunity for the third sector and communities to step forward and innovate”

https://tfn.scot/opinion/when-spaces-close-communities-feel-it-why-unity-hub-matters-in-glasgows-east-end

SCVO consultation response to the Scottish Government's Resource Spending Review

Allan Young
22 March 2022
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to local government mirrored in local government funding of voluntary organisations.,The Scottish Government, and local government, should commit to working with voluntary sector intermediary,The Scottish Government cannot continue to rely on voluntary organisations in receipt of static government,to local government mirrored in local government funding of voluntary organisations.,The Scottish Government, and local government, should commit to working with voluntary sector intermediary

https://scvo.scot/p/49550/2022/03/22/scvo-consultation-response-to-the-scottish-governments-resource-spending-review

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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.