Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Diversifying your board - the Trustee Recruitment Cycle

Janet Thorne

20 October 2021

Posted in

Support & learning
Governance

Trustees week

There is much to be gained by diversifying your board and getting the right mix of trustees with a range of lived, learned and practised expertise. Trustees play an essential role for the charities that they lead from setting the charity’s strategic direction to making key...

https://scvo.scot/p/45661/2021/10/20/diversifying-your-board-the-trustee-recruitment-cycle

Is this the end of sleepovers?

OPINION 24 October 2017 Guest post

Management

2 comments

Annie Gunner Logan says that Living Wage move looks like it will lead to an end to sleepovers

https://tfn.scot/opinion/in-order-to-save-the-sleepover-it-became-necessary-to-destroy-it

Learning from history

OPINION 6 July 2020 Guest post

Management

Chris Martin believes we must look to the past to help society bounce back from Covid-19

https://tfn.scot/opinion/learning-from-history

Urgent change needed to create safer roads for everyone

OPINION 2 April 2024 by Denise Hamilton

Social Justice & Poverty

Environment & International

Culture & Leisure

Serious injuries and deaths on our roads are unacceptable and preventable says Cycling Scotland’s Denise Hamilton

https://tfn.scot/opinion/urgent-change-needed-to-create-safer-roads-for-everyone

Wee pipers call the tune in life affirming film

NEWS 8 January 2016 by Graham Martin

Families & Young People

2 comments

Charity and workers co-op combine to produce fantastic film

https://tfn.scot/news/wee-pipers-call-the-tune-in-life-affirming-film

Unheard voices reshape health and care in pioneering arts research project

NEWS 15 July 2025 by Niall Christie

Families & Young People

Management

Social Justice & Poverty

Culture & Leisure

Health & Social Care

Research led by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh proposes a redesign of health and care services.

https://tfn.scot/news/unheard-voices-reshape-health-and-care-in-pioneering-arts-research-project

Access for all? Connectivity in a cost-of-living crisis

Jason Railton

4 October 2022

Posted in

Support & learning
Digital

The internet has been called ‘the great leveller’, making our access to services, products and opportunities easier and more affordable. But we are facing, once again, an unprecedented crisis. The cost of living is set to spiral, and millions of families will have tough choices...

https://scvo.scot/p/54303/2022/10/04/access-for-all-connectivity-in-a-cost-of-living-crisis