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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

Setting up a charity What to consider when setting up a new voluntary organisation, including legal structures,up or running a voluntary sector organisation Find out more Upcoming events Infrastructure support As,Scotland’s Third Sector Interfaces (TSIs) Networks Make the most of professional connections and peer support,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

Community building platforms

They are places people can come to ask you questions and get peer support.,You set up a group (some people call them forums) on a platform and decide how publicly visible it will,They sign up with an email address or mobile phone number.,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’

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

New service delivery models

channels, 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,contact page – with a shift to remote working, you will need to set up a divert to mobile or cloud-based,Both platforms can be set up to send auto-replies and do some basic tagging of questions.,Pinned posts that stay at the top of your feed are useful for this. 

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,If you want to ensure a charity survives to support people beyond Covid, a great way to do it is to set,up a Direct Debit.,Many charities offer the opportunity to set up regular giving on their websites.,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

Policies, procedures and terms & conditions

Any cancellations received up to 11 August 2023 will be charged at 50% of the original booking cost.,Set up You will be able to set up your exhibition space on Monday 6 November – more details will be sent,Additional support Some people need additional communication support to participate fully in events.,If anyone requires additional support, in order to attend your event, please contact us to discuss.,, sell, hire or copy content or materials and will not use such materials except for the purpose of post

https://scvo.scot/the-gathering/terms

Making use of AI

This can help in expanding the scope of an article, blog post, or marketing copy.,use generative AI to generate multiple versions of advert copy, email subject lines, or social media posts,Retrieval-based AI tools A current weakness of generative AI is that it is, quite literally, making things up,in a similar way to generative AI, but they will match and check results against a pre-defined data set

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/ai/making-use-of-ai

Your organisation’s legacy

Even though your organisation is winding up, you may want to think about what happens after it has gone,may want to think about how you celebrate your achievements, and what happens to any people you were supporting,You will also need to share your final set of accounts, which show where any assets have been transferred

https://scvo.scot/support/closing-down/legacy

Fair funding & procurement

Our sector urgently needs Fair Funding and streamlined procurement processes to support the essential,unrestricted funding, transparency, and investment in the sector that keeps pace with inflation and supports,procurement systems and decisions on voluntary organisations, their staff, volunteers, and the services and support,We share the funding and procurement solutions needed to support a sustainable voluntary sector.,ensure voluntary organisations in Scotland benefit from the full Barnett consequentials of additional support

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

Affordable Homes

affordable homes to be built during the parliamentary term from 2016 to 2021 and for this to be backed up,2016, SFHA, Shelter Scotland and CIH Scotland carried out extensive lobbying work to gain cross-party support,for, we welcomed the Scottish Government increasing the affordable homes target and the cross-party support,“It is vital that post-2021, social housing providers can continue to deliver the housing that Scotland,SFHA, Shelter Scotland and CIH Scotland are working on new research into affordable housing need post

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/affordable-homes

Information for new trustees

your organisation’s purpose It’s vital as a trustee that you know about what your organisation was set,up to do, how it’s trying to achieve its aims and who it’s trying to help.,There may also be other regulators that you need to report to, and you should ensure you’re up to date

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