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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

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 Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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Your hall online

The digital and online world offers lots of possibilities for your village hall, so it’s worth investing,feels like a gap in your knowledge or experience, you could look at getting a trustee involved who has digital,Effective and safe internet use Here are some of the things you will need to make sure that your hall is digital,ready and that you and your hall users can access online and digital in a safe way.

https://scvo.scot/support/village-community-halls/digital/your-hall-online

New service delivery models

, see our How To Guide: Digital Services SCVO in collaboration with Third Sector Lab are also supporting,See this guide from Cast on the principles behind developing good digital services. ,Remember the need to protect privacy and support good safeguarding practice where users are sharing personal,The National Cyber Security Centre have produced a guide to help you use video conferencing services,safely and securely.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/service-delivery

Essential digital skills

(Microsoft) Microsoft Outlook Guide (Microsoft) Essential Digital Skill: Handling Information and Content,(Age UK) Shopping Online Securely (National Cyber Security Centre) Online Shopping (Digital Unite) Universal,for Digital Champions (One Digital) Top Tips for Staying Secure Online (National Cyber Security Centre,Champion Guide.,Before you leave, you can check out the last part of the Digital Motivator Guide: measuring impact or

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/understanding-digital-inclusion/essential-digital-skills

Safety and security

You have to make sure that information shared as part of your digital service is as safe and secure as,For more information about how to assess risk see the Catalysts step-by-step digital safeguarding guide,Informed consent You should gather consent before providing digital support, in the same way as you would,for face-to-face support.,You should consider whether accessing your service could expose your users to harmful content, cyber

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/digital-services/safety-security

Enable your staff to work from home

Three key actions Provide hardwareCheck staff have suitable, affordable and secure connectivity and dataAsk,This makes it much easier to keep up with security settings and ensure employees can run the software,possible ‘in the cloud’ so that data is not stored on the local computer Ensuring staff work safely and securely,Connectivity and data You will need to ask your staff if they have access to a secure internet connection

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/remote-working/enable

Video calls

messengerGoogle hangoutHouseparty Things to consider How to set up video call services, safely and securely,This guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre covers the key things you should consider before,you deliver support by video.,Charities using this tool Homestart shifted their usual face to face support to phone and video call,Starcatchers are delivering fortnightly online gatherings for artists to share ideas and support.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/research-and-resources/tools-functionality/video-calls

SCVO Annual Review 2020-21

service, and introducing a new Cyber Security Check-up and Essential Digital Skills Check-up, while,offering ‘quick fix’ emergency digital support service to 60 organisations.,Our digital team has hosted 40 free #DigiShift webinars and six Cyber Scotland Week events for hundreds,to support learning and developing long term digital skills.,Looking forward SCVO’s three-year strategic plan covering 2019-22 will continue to guide our overall

https://scvo.scot/about/work/annual-review/html

SCVO Impact Report 2022/23

trove of resources and guides, helping to foster a culture of HR and Fair Work best practice for our,These findings continue to be pivotal in shaping SCVO's policy, digital, communications and support activities,This emergency work took place alongside our continued support of digitally excluded households across,Had the chance to learn directly from digital experts 112 Digital checkups 35 Topical digital training,webpage views 60 organisations received Cyber Readiness Check support calls Digital inclusion SCVO’s

https://scvo.scot/about/work/impact

Charities doing worse than private sector in staving off cyber attacks

Fewer charities deployed security monitoring tools than businesses

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-doing-worse-than-private-sector-in-staving-off-cyber-attacks

New accessible versions of vital cyber security information released

Lead Scotland has produced the information in a range of accessible formats

https://tfn.scot/news/new-accessible-versions-of-vital-cyber-security-information-released

Our work to help organisations grow their digital capacity is supported by: