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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 Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.

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DigiNext event content and speaker videos

On 19 September, we brought together dozens of digital pioneers in Glasgow to share inspiration and experiences,need to get there.,The Digital Now John Fitzgerald from SCVO kicked off the day with a look at our ‘Digital Now’ – the inspiring,And you can check out this blog post for more of our thinking on what you need in a good digital strategy,need.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/diginext-event-information

Unwrapping a year of digital support

In this blog we’re wrapping up and reflecting on a year of work helping charities of all sizes to boost,their digital capability.,We’ve reviewed our year internally, and shared some highlights with our funders.,’re inspired by what organisations can achieve when they ‘know what they need to know’. 2024 in numbers,Even though these seem like ‘established’ digital topics, organisations still need guidance in these

https://scvo.scot/p/95957/2024/12/12/unwrapping-a-year-of-digital-support

25 questions charities are asking about AI in 2025

questions We’ve covered audience questions about the Caddy tool from Citizen’s Advice in a separate blog

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/ai/25-questions-charities-are-asking-about-ai-in-2025

AI organisational policies

Some recent research from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation tells us that most people are open,services There’s no doubt that generative AI will be used to improve digital services and enable new,Working this out will need both technical knowledge of what the models can do and detailed internal knowledge,Digital product teams can start thinking about simple applications, but model capabilities are still,If your organisation has already been using standard machine learning then perhaps you already have some

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/ai/ai-policies

Work needn't be a four-letter word

Fiona Brown on what makes Penumbra a special place to work.

https://tfn.scot/opinion/work-neednt-be-a-four-letter-word

The 4 Rs of good trusteeship – relationships, responsibilities, reminders and rewards

Sandy Macdonald ponders what it takes to be a good board member during Trustee's Week, and comes up with 4 Rs

https://tfn.scot/opinion/the-4-rs-of-good-trusteeship-relationships-responsibilities-reminders-and-r

How we designed change

Dyslexia Scotland, a small Scottish charity, has just been ranked 130th most awarded advertiser in The World Creative Rankings - sharing space with multinationals like Kraft Heinz and Apple. And no, they don’t have Don Draper on staff. Katie Carmichael tells us how they did it...

https://tfn.scot/opinion/designing-change

Building trust and transparency: trustees and fundraising

In this blog, Chartered Institute of Fundraising Head of Scotland, Hazel Crombie, shares how trustees,by finding ways to connect with passionate supporters and inspiring them to give.,Here are some of the ways to make this happen.,fundraising - there might need to be some structured sessions to upskill trustees.,of digital fundraising, which has led to them winning investment into innovative new projects.

https://scvo.scot/p/54910/2022/10/26/building-trust-and-transparency-trustees-and-fundraising

Coronavirus and its impact on the Scottish Voluntary Sector: a review of literature

, staffing and digital capacity and funding.,with the same number predicting that they would be unable to do the work they were set up to do at some,of the key issues being reported by some of the 300 charities Inspiring Scotland supports across its,Conclusions This paper considers some of the key themes emerging from research published between June,https://nfpsynergy.net/blog/are-young-people-replacing-older-people-key-volunteering-group ONS (2020)

https://scvo.scot/p/40369/2020/09/17/coronavirus-and-its-impact-on-the-scottish-voluntary-sector-a-review-of-literature

Harnessing the power of digital

Our recent DigiShift zoom was packed with insights and inspiration from charity professionals working,This blog pulls together ten great examples of organisations delivering digital services that you can,streaming doesn’t necessarily mean expensive kit - a decent mic and HD webcam are all that’s really needed,In response to Covid19, Settle has adapted their service to be delivered over the phone, as some of their,The YoungScot website ticks all the boxes in terms of really thinking about user-needs.

https://scvo.scot/p/38107/2020/05/13/harnessing-the-power-of-digital