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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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Technology

digital maturity and plot a route ahead SCVO’s Digital Strategy Playbook can help you run strategic,discussions on digital across your organisation Find out more about how your organisation can embed digital,inclusion in your core service delivery Protect your digital systems and data and ensure your organisation,is prepared for a cyber attack by finding out more about cyber resilience SCVO’s blog on formulating, have resources on crisis planning and social media for voluntary organisations SCVO’s managed IT service

https://scvo.scot/support/running-your-organisation/shifting-sands/technology

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

will be selling new AI products so it’s helpful to know how to evaluate them and work out which ones make,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,of the organisation and service.,Digital product teams can start thinking about simple applications, but model capabilities are still

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

Don’t panic: charity storm clouds have a silver lining

Smith says don’t panic about falling trust levels, be proactive and seize the opportunity to create good

https://tfn.scot/opinion/theres-a-silver-lining-within-the-current-storm-of-bad-news

Digital is booming and charities are starting to join the revolution

Paul Cardwell looks at which charities are making the best use of digital technology to explore how your

https://tfn.scot/news/tech-special-digital-is-booming-and-charities-need-to-take-note

Response to Social Justice and Social Security Committee Pre-budget Scrutiny: Third sector funding principles

SCVO support services (funding, digital, membership support, and information).,policy and public services across Scotland.,Ultimately, this creates needless inefficiency at the heart of public policy and public services.,and public services across Scotland.,Voluntary organisations are crucial to, and a partner in, the delivery of public policy and public services

https://scvo.scot/p/93311/2024/08/13/response-to-social-justice-and-social-security-committee-pre-budget-scrutiny-third-sector-funding-principles

Is digital a human right?

If you’re reading this chances are you’re online. But did you know five billion others aren’t? Robert Armour investigates our right to get online

https://tfn.scot/features/is-digital-a-human-right

Making work easier with open working and reuse

Maddie Stark of SCVO's Digital Evolution team has been reflecting on reuse and working in the open.,collating resources, finding examples of our own work at SCVO, creating slides and developing content, what,I re-use other people’s and my own slides, other people’s blogs, other people’s videos, and other people,to make my own?,It is good to share… To read more about working in the open click here To find out how to do it click

https://scvo.scot/p/52689/2022/08/22/making-work-easier-with-open-working-and-reuse

The UK Growth Plan 2022 and the Energy Bill Relief Scheme

services.,be put in place for transport services so that industrial action doesn’t make it impossible to get to,Claimants who do not fulfil their job-search commitment without good reason could have their benefits,Digital Later this year, the UK Government will set out its plans on how it will further support digital,SPICe also published a blog considering the impact on Scotland. What’s next?

https://scvo.scot/p/54109/2022/09/28/the-uk-growth-plan-2022-and-the-energy-bill-relief-scheme

Kids Company: What lessons can we learn?

England and Wales we now have a report into the failure of Kids Company and the subsequent, very public,Emma Maxwell, Senior Associate at Burness Paull, partners in the SCVO Pro Bono Service has already highlighted,This is supported by the new digital SCVO Good Governance Checkup which guides you through the principles,That’s why we’re planning some lunchtime webinars with our Pro Bono Service partners to look at trustee,We’ll cover what you need to know about charity law and good governance and what trustees can and can

https://scvo.scot/p/48978/2022/02/18/kids-company-what-lessons-can-we-learn