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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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Pamela Redpath

She has been delivering iterations of All Things Financial for SCVO for a long time now; financial policies,current courses: All things financial: building a strong financial foundation, All things financial: budgeting,and sound financial management and All things financial: annual accounting and external reporting

https://scvo.scot/support/training/trainers/pamela-redpath

Scottish & UK Budgets

We engage annually with budget processes to call for meaningful progress to realise these ambitions and,Latest news & opinion The latest Scottish & UK Budgets news and blogs.,Read more Latest briefings & policy papers The latest Scottish & UK Budgets briefings and policy papers,from the policy team.,the policy team.

https://scvo.scot/policy/fair-funding-procurement/budget

Policy

We also ensure sector wide challenges are recognised within the Scottish and UK Budgets, Fair Work, procurement,Read more Latest briefings & policy reports The latest briefings and policy reports from SCVO.,Read more Policy network SCVO’s Policy Network connects voluntary sector professionals in Scotland with,Policy network Meet the team Kyrstie Brown Leads our Policy Network and has responsibility for banking,Sheghley Ogilvie Leads our funding work and is responsible for our work on Fair Work and the Scottish budget

https://scvo.scot/policy

Trustee expenses

A well run and effective charity board should have a Trustees Expenses Policy that is clear and easy,trustees.Enable the charity to show payments correctly in the Charities Accounts and Trustees Annual Report,year, every charity must: Keep proper accounting records.Prepare a statement of account, including a report,clearly reflect the discussions and decisions about the value of trustee expenses to be included in the budget,Trustee expenses policy template Trustees expenses templateDownload For more on how to use this, see

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/governance/guidance-and-templates/trustee-expenses

Control & risk management

As the board, we should put in place appropriate structures, financial controls, policies and procedures,Maintaining and regularly reviewing policies, procedures and reporting arrangements (for example, those,Monitoring and evaluating our organisation’s performance against plans and budgets, and making sure they

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/governance/code/control-risk-management

Scottish Government Commitments

funding, acknowledging that the sector needed certainty and sustainability.In December 2022, the Scottish Budget,With the appointment of the new First Minister, in April 2023 the Scottish Government published its policy,spending plans, recognising that these would both offer greater transparency on the impact of annual budget,of funding, outcome-based flexible funding, and proportionate administration around applications and reporting

https://scvo.scot/policy/fair-funding-procurement/fair-funding/scottish-government-commitments

Developing your board

learn or improve skills and abilities as members of the board, eg in chairing or reading financial reports,of reference for meetings and any sub-committeescode of conductcopy of the latest accounts, annual report,expensesprocedure for declaring register of interestscopy of the personnel manual and other relevant policies,strategicallydevise and implement a planning processanalyse financial information and set out the main financial policies

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/governance/developing-board

Free School Meals

This was an extension to the previous policy of offering free school meals to children and young people,bill was defeated but the Scottish Executive implemented the recommendations of the Hungry for Success report,The government awarded councils extra funding to implement the policy, which affected 135,000 children,universal provision of free, healthy school meals has proven benefits in relation to uptake, family budgets

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/free-school-meals

Press coverage tips for charities

fundingCertain topics – such as animal welfare – can invoke strong opinions and emotions, if your stance or policy,like stats and figuresSend them to the right people – a blanket approach doesn’t work, find relevant reporters,Be strategic and factor in social media budget ahead of time to complement planned campaigns etc A recording

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/resources/press-coverage-tips-for-charities

Trainers

project management and contracts and service level agreements, in addition to practical ones such as report,Lindsay Linton Lindsay has been working with SCVO for over 10 years delivering the Plan, measure and report,Lindsay's current course: Plan, measure and report social impact Lynn Houmdi Lynn Houmdi has worked in,She has been delivering iterations of All Things Financial for SCVO for a long time now; financial policies,current courses: All things financial: building a strong financial foundation, All things financial: budgeting

https://scvo.scot/support/training/trainers

Get involved

Collaborate with us and our members to develop and promote voluntary sector policy perspectives for Scotland