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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, can use digital tools to help the people they work with. ,tools Handling initial enquiries Maintain an up-to-date contact page – with a shift to remote working,See also the Coronavirus Tech Handbook for a growing crowd-sourced guide to running remote meetings.If,The National Cyber Security Centre have produced a guide to help you use video conferencing services

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

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,You should consider whether accessing your service could expose your users to harmful content, cyber,You should follow good remote working practices so that they are working in a safe and secure environment

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,devices is likely to lead to stress, low productivity and insecure working practices.,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, for example password protected home broadband.

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

Essential digital skills

apps/products/services Essential Digital Skills for Work Essential Digital Skills for Work are the increasingly,remotely or were unable to travel.,(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.

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

SCVO Annual Review 2020-21

We switched to a remote working model without disruption to any of our services and were able to continue,We switched to a remote working model without disruption to any of our services and were able to continue,services, digital inclusion and remote working, and hosted a range of practical and discursive webinars,service, and introducing a new Cyber Security Check-up and Essential Digital Skills Check-up, while,Our digital team has hosted 40 free #DigiShift webinars and six Cyber Scotland Week events for hundreds

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

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

SCVO Impact Report 2022/23

trove of resources and guides, helping to foster a culture of HR and Fair Work best practice for our,This emergency work took place alongside our continued support of digitally excluded households across,webpage views 60 organisations received Cyber Readiness Check support calls Digital inclusion SCVO’s,digital inclusion team has continued its work to build capacity for partnership working in the digital,to support our work.

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

Cyber security support for Scottish charities stepped up

Organisations can now access a free helpline for support and are being given the chance to assess how,cyber resilient they are

https://tfn.scot/news/cyber-security-support-for-scottish-charities-stepped-up

10 no-cost, high impact digital changes you can make today

Cloud-based collaboration and document storage is an absolute must for remote working.,Take some basic cyber security precautions.,Taking the first basic steps to improving your cyber security is much easier than you think, and it will,We’ve all been on a very steep learning curve with remote working, adopting new tools and techniques,Then use these key questions to guide your approach to gathering data.

https://scvo.scot/p/42583/2021/03/02/10-no-cost-high-impact-digital-changes-you-can-make-today

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