In our previous call to action in 2018, we saw that digital change was already gathering a lot of momentum,All of this changed in March 2020.,organisations adapt to this rapid shift to digital channels and ways of working: The Connecting Scotland programme,SCVO’s flagship Senior Leaders’ Programme and our topical digital training rapidly switched to online,An online store also takes away a lot of the questions people used to have around getting resources from

months SCVO has worked with its members, as well as partners across local and national governments, to gather,Accountability In 2019, in its report Looking ahead to the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2020-21,Looking ahead to the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2020-21: Valuing the Third Sector It goes on,It is important that more events and activities of this nature are organised to explain how to engage,Key contacts As we argued in our answer to question 5, the engagement process leading to the Programme

Combined, these events have left the sector wrestling with a running costs crisis while the cost-of-living,of working with different groups will provide the Committee with a more detailed response to this question,The Third Sector Unit should have a role in gathering this information and should publish an accurate,In 2020/21, 40% of charities spent more than their income, with that rising to 46% of smaller charities,The time and resources that go towards the annual funding cycle, from organisations and funders alike

sector organisations with key expertise in these areas, as outlined in response to the previous question,On the back of this we urged the EHR Committee in 2020 to revisit these recommendations, and welcomed,considerable praise and commitments to support recently from the Scottish Government at numerous key events,Do you feel that you, your organisation, and the evidence you gather, can genuinely influence government,in this year’s Programme for Government.

Last year, the committee heard that the 2020/21 UK budget process was making it difficult to plan for,/21 Programme for Government (PfG).,This, combined with what can be a lengthy process to gather and input all the relevant information, is,Their first online Young Scotland’s Got Talent event in July (delivered in partnership with Scottish,If we do not act now, the question is when?

So that’s why we’re hosting two events in one day at this year’s Gathering Good Governance at the Gathering,Funders Question Time is a chance to engage with a panel of funding experts from some of the major funders,and there’s financial sessions such as Mythbusting for Charity Investors, a Charity Finance Update 2020,It’s the big event!,The Gathering is the UK’s largest free voluntary sector event in the UK where you’ll find over 65 free