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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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Support & learning

and model constitutions Running your organisation How to solve problems and run effective and sustainable,voluntary organisations.,a voluntary sector organisation Find out more Upcoming events Infrastructure support As part of the,recognition, capacity building, and professional education for the voluntary sector Find out more Latest posts,The latest posts from the SCVO information service.

https://scvo.scot/support

Information for new trustees

Know your organisation’s purpose It’s vital as a trustee that you know about what your organisation was,You can find this out by reading your organisation’s governing document.,Get a good induction and meet your fellow trustees You should be able to understand what your organisation,your organisation is and about any potential personal liabilities.,you must always put the interests of your organisation first.

https://scvo.scot/about/networks/trustee/information-for-new-charity-trustees

Community building platforms

Then they have access and can post text, images and files to the group.,Every time someone posts a new question or starts a conversation others can reply, forming a ‘thread’,Threads can often be organised by topic or you can start sub-groups or ‘rooms’ for them.,Consider whether your organisation should join and bring extra value to it instead.,Oxfordshire Breastfeeding Support run a 'Facebook happy hours' expert Q&A session through their Facebook

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/research-and-resources/tools-functionality/community-building

About the Scottish Third Sector Tracker

Those involved in the running of a third sector organisation operating in Scotland are invited to represent,finding out more information on the impact of the first phase of the Tracker, please read this blog post,by Steven Marwick (Director of Evaluation Support Scotland) which can be read here.,To register your interest To register your interest in becoming a member of the Scottish Third Sector,organisation.

https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker/about

Bank account comparison table

Which is the best bank account for your charity?,CAF Cash Account Deposit cash at any Post Office, and RBS or HSBC.,No minimum deposit required and no turnover limitations Account management online, by phone or by post,with a turnover of £6.5m or less Support and guidance on running and financing your organisation Lloyds,minimum deposit required Reliance Bank Part of The Salvation Army, all profits made by the Bank go to support

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/finance-business-management/bank-accounts/comparison

Top tips for businesses to support #NeverMoreNeeded

Your business may have sponsored specific projects for the charities you support, but freeing up your,If your organisation is a funder, take a look at SCVO’s guide to best practise for funders during Coronavirus,Corporate volunteering While financial support from corporate organisations is always welcome; the professional,organisation well in the future.,Staff fundraising Your staff may not be able to do physical activities like bake sales and marathon runs

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/top-tips-for-businesses-to-support-nevermoreneeded

New service delivery models

, see our How To Guide: Digital Services SCVO in collaboration with Third Sector Lab are also supporting,Remember the need to protect privacy and support good safeguarding practice where users are sharing personal,might want to offer supported young people mobile data topup vouchers.,Pinned posts that stay at the top of your feed are useful for this. ,See also our blog post on questions about privacy and security when using Zoom.If you’re running a Zoom

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

Top tips for the public to support #NeverMoreNeeded

Give time Volunteering is shown to boost your own mental health and sense of wellbeing as well as supporting,There are loads of organisations in your community looking for volunteers from befrienders to charity,Remember that the people running it may be volunteers themselves and very busy.,about the kinds of ways you gave to charity without really noticing it before – sponsoring a friend to run,Here are some suggested social media posts: “I’ve just donated to [Insert charity name] because its work

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/never-more-needed/top-tips-for-the-public-to-support-nevermoreneeded

SCVO training & events privacy notice

 Organisation. ,It covers: SCVO training programme SCVO-run conferences and events SCVO online events and training The,, address, phone number, email, access/dietary requirements and name/email for your organisation's nominated,, venues and additional support providers for administration of the event and to ensure your needs are,To submit a request for your data, please contact us by email, post or telephone, please use the contact

https://scvo.scot/privacy/training-and-events

eLearning and Virtual Learning Environments

What they do eLearning is a way of running training courses so people can access them from their computer,Then you organise them in the order you want your learners to access.,You can also groups posts into learning units in Facebook groups, to create a course with topic folders,have developed the Learn My Way platform to deliver digital skills courses Oxfordshire Breastfeeding Support,Sunday use Zoom to run antenatal workshops.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/research-and-resources/tools-functionality/elearning