Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

What SCVO has done

employability community on basecamp Partnered with a range of stakeholders to build a Scotland focused research

https://scvo.scot/support/coronavirus/what-scvo-is-doing

SCVO's work to become an anti-racist organisation

Anna Fowlie

25 March 2024

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Support & learning

All our HR policies have been reviewed through an EDI lens, with expert help from CEMVO, and our People,Including a question about board/leadership diversity in the Third Sector Tracker research.

https://scvo.scot/p/89475/2024/03/25/scvos-work-to-become-an-anti-racist-organisation

We’ll provide: detailed audits of policies and proceduresone-to-one expert HR and people management advice,We’ll be gathering information about the needs of creative organisations, as part of a wider research,Participating organisations will share their HR learning journeys with a dedicated researcher.,The research findings will be shared so that other organisations across the arts, screen and creative,response, Creative Scotland has partnered with SCVO and Project Manager Kathryn Willens on an action research

https://scvo.scot/services/hr/for-creatives

2016

–Macmillan Cancer Support & Glasgow Life People’s Choice – Lucy Lintott The Edinburgh-based former policy,He launched GordonsFightback.com to raise funds for research and lobby for better care for people with,She created the website Lucy’s Fight and has now raised over £100,000 to help fund research.

https://scvo.scot/scottish-charity-awards/previous-winners/winners-2016

Abolition of Tuition Fees

Mike Day, director of NUS Scotland between 2007 and 2012, said: “Our strategy was to produce solid research,border gave up their commitment to abolishing tuition fees but their Scottish counterparts supported the policy,Parliament elections found retaining free tuition for Scottish students was the third most popular policy

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/abolition-of-tuition-fees

Debt Arrangement Schemes

Susan McPhee, head of policy and public affairs at CAS, said: “We knew from our bureau service that people,diligence (the legal term for debt protection) became devolved so we saw that as a way of changing policy,with civil servants and Labour’s Margaret Curran, then Minister for Social Justice, and carried out research

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/debt-arrangement-schemes

Scottish Policy & Research Exchange

Membership number 7796
Charity registered in Scotland SC051809

https://scvo.scot/membership/members/7796/scottish-policy-research-exchange

Make Renting Right

Graeme Brown, director at Shelter Scotland, said: “We have always engaged with private renting policy,Brown continued: “We built a well-evidenced case for reform, through research, policy papers, public

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/making-renting-right

#NeverMoreNeeded

stories and impact Businesses Ways that businesses can support voluntary sector organisations MSPs SCVO's research

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed

Mental health & wellbeing

Flexible Working Policies The traditional working pattern has changed a lot this year.,If you don’t already have flexible working policies in place, this is something to consider implementing.Employees,According to research by the Wellbeing of Women group, 900,000 women have had to leave their jobs due,The clear message is that designing policies and procedures in isolation of the staff who will benefit,This is part of the government commitment to conduct research into ‘what works to improve reproductive

https://scvo.scot/support/hr/employee-engagement-culture/mental-health-and-wellbeing