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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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Older people’s commissioner could help save lives, charity says

NEWS 14 August 2023 by Niall Christie
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Food Train is urging MSPs to get behind the action.

https://tfn.scot/news/older-peoples-commissioner-could-help-save-lives-charity-says

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

Triple hit as charities and third sector projects announce closure

NEWS 18 December 2023 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#RunningCostsCrisis
Funding challenges have contributed to the closures, which will come into effect next year.

https://tfn.scot/news/triple-hit-as-charities-and-third-sector-projects-announce-closure

Volunteers praised for remarkable first year

NEWS 1 June 2021 by Gareth Jones
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
#NeverMoreNeeded
Hundreds of shopping trips have been made and tens of thousands of hours spent on calls to over-65s in opening 12 months of a charity’s newest operation

https://tfn.scot/news/volunteers-praised-for-remarkable-first-year

Fears over rising rates of malnutrition among older people in Scotland

NEWS 11 October 2021 by Gareth Jones
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Malnutrition is a very real problem and Covid-19 has seen issues worsen, a charity has said

https://tfn.scot/news/fears-over-rising-rates-of-malnutrition-among-older-people-in-scotland

Wee Forests to be created across Glasgow

NEWS 19 October 2021 by Gareth Jones
Environment & International
The project aims to create a living legacy from COP26

https://tfn.scot/news/wee-forests-to-be-created-across-glasgow

New vaccine fund aims to Give the World a Shot

NEWS 22 March 2021 by Gareth Jones
Environment & International
Health & Social Care
A new campaign has been launched which aims to support two billion Covid-19 vaccinations

https://tfn.scot/news/new-vaccine-fund-aims-to-give-the-world-a-shot

Fundraising body apologises over response to sexual harassment allegations

NEWS 26 March 2021 by Gareth Jones
Management
Funding & Finance
The Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CIoF) has issued an apology to women "who have been let down" and has created an action plan aimed at improving how it responds

https://tfn.scot/news/fundraising-body-apologises-over-response-to-sexual-harassment-allegations

Scots charities say they will not give up on Afghanistan

NEWS 17 August 2021 by Graham Martin
Environment & International
#NeverMoreNeeded
Pledge to continue life-transforming work - even in the face of the Taliban's triumph

https://tfn.scot/news/scots-charities-say-they-will-not-give-up-on-afghanistan

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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.