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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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Device management and security

This may be a condition of your funding, but is also legally important - accidentally sharing personal,settings) of different devices and manufacturers before you settle on specific devices, as you may find

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/resource/digital-device-lending/managing-risks/device-management-and-security

Victoria and Albert Halls (Ballater) Trust

To improve energy performance of the Halls the Trust is seeking to raise funding for air source heating,halls were built over a few years from 1874 so they are old buildings, but recently these have been getting,The Trust runs a Repair Workshop and The Ready Steady Eat Recovery Cafe in one of the small rooms.,We managed to batten the hatches down and get some grants.,They do exist, it's just a question of finding them.And then the age-old problem of finding funding to

https://scvo.scot/support/village-community-halls/stories/victoria-and-albert-halls-ballater-trust

Error 404: digital inclusion still not found

A £9.5m Digital Innovation Fund has been launched, including an allocation of £764,020 for Scotland.,refresh: our call for leadership and delivery Scotland has the vision, the evidence and the partners ready,Provide transparency about how the UK Government’s £764,020 Innovation Fund will be used in Scotland,Since the original publication of this report a grant funding round and CivTech challenge were launched

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/error-404-digital-inclusion-still-not-found

HR for creatives

The research findings will be shared so that other organisations across the arts, screen and creative,Please read the guidance fully before applying and once you're ready, please complete the application,If you'd like to request a copy of your completed application, please get in touch with us at HRService,We distribute funding from the Scottish Government and The National Lottery.

https://scvo.scot/services/hr/for-creatives

Exhibitor information

If you have any questions, please get in touch with the Gathering team.,their East Kilbride warehouse from Monday 2nd February, and they will transfer it to your space in readiness,end of the event, they will collect your packages from your space and return it to their warehouse ready,touch with you directly with further information on both their courier and warehouse services, and to find,year’s Gathering greener, so to help us reduce our carbon footprint, here are some things you might find

https://scvo.scot/the-gathering/exhibitor-information

Webinar Q&A

We've included answers that were given during the webinar as well as the answers to those we didn’t get

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/essentialsector/mobile-video-training/support/webinar-qa

Digital inclusion: room for improvement

had highs in 2016-2018 when exclusion was central to the digital transformation conversation, with funding,The Scottish Government promise in the 2021 Programme for Government to spend £200m to get 300,000 households,Our readiness for this challenge will be judged more severely if we do not take action now.,The Audit Scotland report finds weak national leadership and the absence of a clear action plan.,Think about how you would cope today without a device, data or the confidence to get online.

https://scvo.scot/p/93457/2024/08/22/digital-inclusion-room-for-improvement

25 questions charities are asking about AI in 2025

This article covers audience questions that came up during a panel discussion on ‘Putting People and Values at the Heart of AI’ at The Gathering, SCVO’s national convention for charities, on 5 February 2025

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

BBC underlines sector's role in every part of society

Getting a 10-year-old, a dog and two not yet sufficiently caffeinated adults up and ready for the day,means my house is pretty hectic in the morning, so I don’t normally catch up with the news until I get,new report confirming the rise in global temperatures and Labour preparing to row back on previous funding,later in the programme when the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations introduced their latest findings,to hear the response from Sottish Government reference a continued intention to look at multi-year funding

https://scvo.scot/p/88548/2024/02/12/bbc-underlines-sectors-role-in-every-part-of-society

Levelling Up and social needs: An analysis of government’s progress - How Levelling Up is missing social needs

Key findings Areas with the worst homelessness rates do not receive any more Levelling Up funding on,Per person, Wales and Scotland are getting less Levelling Up funding than England so far.,Wales is getting just 2.5% of Levelling Up funding despite having 4.7% of the population.,with local communities and should require partnerships with charities and community groups who are a ready,resource already embedded within these communities ready to tackle social issues.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/levelling-up-and-social-needs-an-analysis-of-governments-progress-how-levelling-up-is-missing-social-needs