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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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#ChristiePlus10: Radical Scotland? Not yet, but we can be if we choose.

#ChristiePlus10: a series of expert blogs reflecting on ten years since the publication of the Christie Commission.

https://tfn.scot/opinion/christieplus10-radical-scotland-not-yet-but-we-can-be-if-we-choose

Holyrood 2021: what the voluntary sector wants

TFN's guide to charity election manifestos

https://tfn.scot/news/holyrood-2021-what-the-voluntary-sector-wants

Economic disruption is essential for social change

In this guest blog, I have been asked to set out some answers to how we can contribute to changing the,to affect change, she describes taxes, regulations and standards as examples of the least effective category,Our role can be internal such as changing organisational purchasing or travel policy.

https://scvo.scot/p/49645/2022/03/28/economic-disruption-is-essential-for-social-disruption

Developing this website

More positively; it was well-used - by people sharing posts by our policy team, reading pages about how,Relevant to the sector, media, MSPs and activists - campaigning, news, policy.,As a member of a third sector policy team or Trustee of a 3rd sector organisation, I need to put across,Existing blog posts would be ported over to keep a history of what has been published and to allow for,The facility to show blog posts, press releases, authors, related posts, and post categories was pulled

https://scvo.scot/p/24481/2018/01/31/developing-this-website

AI and the third sector

To my mind, these fall into three broad categories: new ways for charities to achieve their mission changing,to many jobs becoming obsolete in the near future, large numbers of people will have to adapt to a post-work,Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde), Tom Cheesewright (https://bookofthefuture.co.uk) and SCVO’s Policy

https://scvo.scot/p/23628/2018/01/19/ai-and-the-third-sector

SCVO response to Scottish Parliament Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee

For future funding, replacement of Structural Funds post-Brexit must advance on and not regress on the,Both big policy areas that the third sector in Scotland lead the way on.,A blog entitled Future of the Funds was set up by the Managing Authority (MA) to inform people but it,This is common throughout all categories of delivery with expenditure achieved to date in the Transition,It is critical that these policy areas are not left bereft of investment post the end of this programme

https://scvo.scot/p/25068/2018/04/13/scvo-response-to-scottish-parliament-economy-jobs-and-fair-work-committee

SCVO Briefing – Creating a Fairer Scotland

sector believe that the devolution of new powers to the Scottish Parliament offers the chance to take policy,the Scottish Parliament, we believe there exists an opportunity to adopt a ‘rights-based’ approach to policy,opportunity to do things differently, by adopting person-centred, human rights-based approaches to policy,Households in this category are also more likely to consume higher levels of sugars than more affluent,provides an opportunity to redress this situation and to pioneer new human rights-based approaches to policy

https://scvo.scot/p/12643/2016/06/22/scvo-briefing-creating-a-fairer-scotland

What matters to the third sector in #GE2015?

In this blog, I take a look at what things you told us matter to you and the third sector in this election,Unsurprisingly, in both categories the top concern was the voluntary sector!,how Westminster decisions on devolved issues in England can affect what happens here both in terms of policy,Well, as I hinted in my original post that accompanied this survey, we’re keeping that to ourselves.,engagement work into the 2016 Holyrood elections, so thank you for taking the time, and I hope this blog

https://scvo.scot/p/8483/2015/04/07/what-matters-to-the-third-sector-in-ge2015

Right Approach Campaign: July - December 2016

universal application of human rights-based approaches and the sector can be divided up into three broad categories,, identified the need for a campaign to promote the human rights work of organisations in the first category,We used photographs of blog writers in social media posts in order to personalise the content and to,In order to communicate a simple and engaging message, we posted a quote from the blog writer next to,Our policy officer’s blog for the campaign gained tremendous traction in dementia circles too – a concerted

https://scvo.scot/p/14613/2017/02/28/right-approach-campaign-july-december-2016