Engender have recently called for a £50m Women’s Employment and Enterprise Challenge Fund to help reduce,the space to realise how they can best contribute to society outside the traditional Beveridge-era categories,The social contract which has governed our welfare state in the post-war era appears out-dated in the,cannot be solved by one-size-fits all approaches, but rather require explicit attention and subsequent funding
https://scvo.scot/p/13428/2016/07/24/reference-briefing-scotlands-labour-market-strategy-july-2016
work in using digital to engage young people, and am also currently a Trustee of the Voluntary Action Fund,Working with the Scottish Government, we’re aiming to equip more people with basic digital skills by: Funding,84 local projects in communities across Scotland through the Challenge Fund; and Encouraging organisations,As part of the Big Lottery funded One Digital programme, we’re also providing training directly to third,suite of online services provided by SCVO which are widely used by the sector, including Goodmoves, Funding
https://scvo.scot/p/12032/2016/04/06/meet-david
Digital Journey event I produced a short promotional video to help spread awareness of our Charter Fund,received 82 surveys. 46 of these have indicated they are not in a position to learn new skills from the 5 categories
https://scvo.scot/p/30240/2019/03/19/digi-aye
Examples of support provided Note- these categories have been applied by SCVO to the examples given by,Showed customer how to find post codes. Helped customer fill out a Housing Benefit form online.”,in a variety of ways, whether they have attended one of our practitioner events, applied for Charter Funding
https://scvo.scot/p/30972/2019/05/09/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-digital-champion
Those arguments focussed primarily on administrative convenience rather than the way in which the Fund,in order to protect their budgets or increase the share of community care grants available to other categories,[vi] Furthermore, excluding this category of applicant works against the strong Government focus on tackling,References
[i]http://www.scvo.scot/long-form-posts/welfare-funds-scotland-bill-stage-1-debate/ [ii]http,(Scotland) Bill [v]http://www.scvo.scot/long-form-posts/welfare-funds-scotland-bill-stage-1-debate/#
https://scvo.scot/p/8050/2015/03/02/welfare-funds-scotland-bill-stage-3-briefing
Reasons given for increased workloads fell into 4 main categories: Staff who have left, were made redundant,The pay is certainly much lower than similar posts in the private or public sector (I have worked in,Uncertainty of funding. Every year we wait to find out if we've got the funding to keep my post.,Job security in Third Sector, it's funding funding funding - 12 to 18 months contracts, should be like,: short-term funding, and delays in hearing about funding decisions 103 respondents mentioned funding
https://scvo.scot/p/7977/2015/02/25/scvo-workforce-survey-2015
While emergency Scottish Government funding streams have provided vital support, many organisations had,The provision of the Wellbeing Fund, the Third Sector Resilience Fund and the Supporting Communities,Fund have been appreciated by the sector in this period of crisis.Additional funding needed: Additional,demand: There is a need for funding to meet the expected increased demand on the sector post-lockdown,We have divided our initial priorities for changes to the system into national and sector-specific categories
https://scvo.scot/p/38971/2020/06/08/coronavirus-next-steps-communities
The winner of each of the nine categories was decided by a judging panel, with the tenth People’s Choice,category winner decided by the public, with over 12,000 votes cast.,A special commendation was given to Aberlour Children’s Charity - Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund.,medication and launched a unique national Click and Deliver service, providing training and free Naloxone by post,A special commendation was given in the Charity of the Year category to Scran Academy SCIO.
https://scvo.scot/p/45252/2021/10/01/scottish-charity-awards-2021-winners-announced
