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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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Charity v Conservative Party: is it war?

Susan Smith responds to another attack on the third sector's right to criticise government

https://tfn.scot/opinion/xxxx

Poverty Truth Commission becomes a movement for change

People with lived experience of poverty will continue to lead the movement and campaign on issues such as Universal Credit

https://tfn.scot/news/poverty-truth-commission-becomes-a-movement-for-change

How Maura’s Mission started on an everyday car journey

Charlie McCarthy on the inspiration behind educational charity Maura's Mission

https://tfn.scot/opinion/how-mauras-mission-started-on-an-everyday-car-journey

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

Third sector cut out of new employability landscape

sector organisations who have won bids in today’s Scottish Government announcement regarding the Fair Start,Read our briefing - Fair Start Scotland: contracts, commissioning and the marginalisation of the third,Read our Chief Executive Martin Sime's response in his blog.,Read our Director of Public Affairs John Downie's response in his blog.

https://scvo.scot/p/16248/2017/10/04/third-sector-cut-out-of-new-employability-landscape

Response to SSAC Consultation - Extension of benefit waiting days

These advances have to be paid back – from a poorer starting point for claimants, whose first benefit,Conclusion Yet again, those on benefits appear to be at the end of unfair and it would seem unjustified,year-benefit-ban-hits-120-disabled-people-under-new-sanctions-regime [vii] http://www.oxfam.org.uk/scotland/blog,the_rise_of_in-work_poverty [xiii] http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0045/00451915.pdf [xiv] http://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog

https://scvo.scot/p/5169/2014/07/01/response-to-ssac-consultation-extension-of-benefit-waiting-days

The war on the Commonweal: taking a stand in 2014

At one meeting I laughed, rather irreverently, when someone started talking about “purchaser provider,rules, its own standards and references....and as an ex-senior banker remarked, “The fact is, after you start,Aside from party politics, there is a flourishing of groups in Scotland who have started the debate using,the American soldier now in prison who leaked information to Wikieleaks,) because he felt it was so unfair,Research Unit London School of Economics and Political Science June 2012 [15] http://www.democracynow.org/blog

https://scvo.scot/p/2963/2014/01/08/the-war-on-the-commonweal-taking-a-stand-in-2014