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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

All the latest insights from our Digital team Reports Supporting workforce digital skills in local government Throughout 2021 SCVO Digital worked with 19 local authorities to support workforce digital skills programmes. This report is a summary of our insights and lessons learnt...

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

New service delivery models

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

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

Asylum seekers failed by coronavirus lockdown

NEWS 17 March 2020 by Gavin Stuart
Social Justice & Poverty
Refugees seeking asylum are still being forced to travel to Liverpool to hand in documents.

https://tfn.scot/news/asylum-seekers-failed-by-coronavirus-lockdown

New visa system, new hoops for charities

OPINION 5 May 2015 Guest post
Management
Chris Airey warns the lastest government overhaul of the visa system does not mean charities will have to work less hard to support incoming guests

https://tfn.scot/opinion/new-visa-system-new-hoops-for-charities

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

OPINION 28 July 2021 by Adam Lang
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
#NeverMoreNeeded
1 comment
#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

How to maximise your grant success

OPINION 14 March 2019 Guest post
Funding & Finance
1 comment
How to maximise your grant success

https://tfn.scot/opinion/how-to-maximise-your-grant-success

Holyrood 2021: what the voluntary sector wants

NEWS 4 May 2021 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#NeverMoreNeeded
1 comment
TFN's guide to charity election manifestos

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

A week in the life of a digital champion

Claire Sharp
9 May 2019
Posted in
Examples of support provided Note- these categories have been applied by SCVO to the examples given by,address then supported another client to make a claim for Universal Credit” “Helped someone save a document,in a specific location, helped someone with the layout of a document, and helped someone with email,Showed customer how to find post codes. Helped customer fill out a Housing Benefit form online.”

https://scvo.scot/p/30972/2019/05/09/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-digital-champion

Developing this website

Calum MacÙisdean
31 January 2018
Posted in
We began the process of building a new website by taking a step back from the content and design to document,As part of the technical development (more on that in another post), we needed to document content types,interesting relevant older posts to be shown alongside newer posts.,The facility to show blog posts, press releases, authors, related posts, and post categories was pulled,This allows us to manage documents in a cloud-based environment and the new website technology stack

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

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

Alison Cairns
13 April 2018
Posted in
For future funding, replacement of Structural Funds post-Brexit must advance on and not regress on the,This is common throughout all categories of delivery with expenditure achieved to date in the Transition,The Managing Authority considered using a common sense approach to verifying documentation relating to,participants registered by 31 December 2016 by accepting a wider variety of documentation to justify,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