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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 Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.

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Small steps to cyber security: don’t take the bait

SCVO’s cyber awareness campaign was created to provide regular hints and tips to share with staff and,And stay in the loop on all things cyber If you want to keep up to date with cyber and hear about all,Contact SCVO’s Cyber Resilience Co-ordinator, Alison Brogan, if you’d like support with creating a positive,cyber security culture within your organisation.,From board level to supporting your team in their everyday work, there is lots of free support available

https://scvo.scot/p/98699/2025/05/19/small-steps-to-cyber-security-dont-take-the-bait

Small steps to cyber security: starting with passwords

Charities are using digital systems every day to deliver their services and keep in touch but with this,To support this SCVO are launching a new cyber awareness campaign - over the next year we will help voluntary,And stay in the loop on all things cyber If you want to keep up to date with cyber and hear about all,Resilience bulletin.Contact SCVO’s Cyber Resilience Co-ordinator, Alison Brogan, if you’d like support,From board level to supporting your team in their everyday work, there is lots of free support available

https://scvo.scot/p/95874/2024/12/11/small-steps-to-cyber-security-starting-with-passwords

Unwrapping a year of digital support

300 CEOs and directors completing the programme since 2016 February: A great turnout for our one-day cyber,DigiNext conference in Glasgow October: New research completed into barriers to achieving standards in cyber,final training sessions and offering more 1-to-1 digital support sessions What have we noticed or learned,We’ve got a strong Digital theme at The Gathering, with events on digital change, building your cyber,activity to help organisations keep cyber security on their radar at all levels from boards to frontline

https://scvo.scot/p/95957/2024/12/12/unwrapping-a-year-of-digital-support

DigiNext event content and speaker videos

Alison Brogan Alison Brogan is SCVO’s Cyber Resilience Co-ordinator.,It is her passion for improving cyber resilience within Scotland that led her to join SCVO last year,,where her role is to coordinate implementation of Scottish Government’s Third Sector Cyber Resilience,Action Plan to support charities in becoming more cyber resilient.,Stew is also a Head Consultant for the NCSC Cyber Consultancy Scheme and supports the Cyber First initiative

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/diginext-event-information

Cyber resilience

SCVO have appointed Alison Brogan as Third Sector Cyber Resilience Co-ordinator, who will work closely,with Scottish Government through the CyberScotland partnership, to support Scotland’s voluntary sector,in their journey to becoming more cyber resilient.,resilience.,Checkup to assess your current digital maturity and plot a route ahead, including cyber security.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/cyber-resilience

Technology

. https://youtu.be/WkfB_391Iqo Planning prompts Sources of support Take SCVO’s Digital Check-up to assess,ensure your organisation is prepared for a cyber attack by finding out more about cyber resilience SCVO,tools, along with guidance on supporting staff while working remotely Preventing Charity Fraud provides,to go digital The SCVO Comms Network is a supportive space for anyone in an SCVO member organisation,security tool that helps small to medium sized organisations to detect, assess and mitigate their cyber

https://scvo.scot/support/shifting-sands/technology

Your hall online

The digital and online world offers lots of possibilities for your village hall, so it’s worth investing,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

Introduction This paper considers the available literature and data on the resilience of Scottish voluntary,For this paper, resilience is defined as the ability of an organisation to anticipate, cope with and,long-term trends from the Scottish third sector tracker, we draw conclusions about the sector’s resilience,and what is required to sustain and build on that resilience.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/the-resilience-of-scottish-voluntary-organisations

Charities come together to renew their focus on cyber resilience

The aim of the day was to support organisations in understanding more about cyber resilience, why it,to becoming more cyber resilient.,As part of this support, I am delighted that Alison Brogan has been appointed as the Third Sector Cyber,Eddie Nisbet, YouthLink Scotland Senior Digital & Communications Officer and member of the Third Sector,of information and resources that could support the development of our cyber incident response strategy

https://scvo.scot/p/89528/2024/04/05/charities-come-together-to-renew-their-focus-on-cyber-resilience

2021

He successfully made an impact in communities across Glasgow by delivering Cyber Crime Prevention Awareness,Community Action – Cumbernauld Resilience Cumbernauld Resilience was established in March 2020 as a community-based,especially delighted to have won in the Community Action Category as, from the outset, Cumbernauld Resilience’s,digital isolation and the pandemic has only reinforced that view.,of people with devices, digital skills and connectivity.

https://scvo.scot/scottish-charity-awards/previous-winners/winners-2021

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