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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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Reports and news

from our Digital team Reports Supporting workforce digital skills in local government Throughout 2021 SCVO,Jason Railton explains this approach in his blog.,SCVO Digital - Taking a place-based approach to digital inclusion - the story so farDownload For more,SCVO Social Housing Digital Champions Network Evaluation (2020)

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/research-and-resources/reports-and-news

New service delivery models

organisations to share best practice through regular DigiShift zoom calls, DigiListen podcasts and blogs,Pinned posts that stay at the top of your feed are useful for this. ,quickly, a Twitter thread or ‘view-only’ link to a Google Doc is more accessible and just as quick to post,See also our blog post on questions about privacy and security when using Zoom.If you’re running a Zoom,for details of upcoming DigiShift zoom calls, and this resource page for access to call recordings, blogs

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

There’s a poor outlook for McCloud’s new poverty blog

A campaign to tackle the stigma of poverty has launched a new phase with a spoof blog that highlights

https://tfn.scot/news/theres-a-poor-outlook-for-mcclouds-new-poverty-blog

#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

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,Over the past month or so, SCVO has been running a survey asking what your top priorities are for the,Unsurprisingly, in both categories the top concern was the voluntary sector!,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

Meet David!

I was delighted to join SCVO as Digital Director on 21st March, taking over the reins from Chris Yiu.,, I know not everyone is confident in using new technology, and I am excited to be part the team at SCVO,It’s been a busy couple of weeks since starting at SCVO, with a short intermission to overindulge in,SCVO which are widely used by the sector, including Goodmoves, Funding Scotland and the main SCVO website,Labs blog to talk about the tools and techniques we’re using, the challenges we’ve encountered and how

https://scvo.scot/p/12032/2016/04/06/meet-david

SCVO Briefing – Creating a Fairer Scotland

Human Rights-Based Approach SCVO has concerns that there remains a human rights deficit in Scotland –,As such, SCVO supports efforts to reduce smoking rates, including the introduction of plain packaging,In terms of reducing poverty and improving diet, SCVO welcomes the introduction of free school meals,Households in this category are also more likely to consume higher levels of sugars than more affluent,SCVO and our members believe that many key indicators of fairness are intrinsically linked.

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

It's time to spring clean your charity's constitution

In the SCVO Information Service we see a lot of constitutions.,They fall into three main categories - the good, the bad, and the ugly.,In a previous blog I covered the differences between single and two tier SCIOs in more detail.,The SCVO Information Service offers up to two hours free legal advice to SCVO members with an income

https://scvo.scot/p/14279/2017/01/09/its-time-to-spring-clean-your-charitys-constitution

Right Approach Campaign: July - December 2016

universal application of human rights-based approaches and the sector can be divided up into three broad categories,in the first category, and, in doing so, encourage those in positions two and three to follow a human,On August 29, SCVO launched the Right Approach campaign with two SCVO blogs, alongside a podcast featuring,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

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