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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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Fair funding & procurement

, Running costs crisis Contact Latest news & opinion The latest Fair Funding & procurement news and blogs,Fairer Funding principles align with SCVO’s definition of Fair Funding – developed through significant research

https://scvo.scot/policy/fair-funding-procurement

See what your charity can learn from these digital champions

Rebecca Curtis-Moss, in her role as a digital communications trainer, offers up her favourite examples of charities doing a good job of using digital technology

https://tfn.scot/opinion/the-charities-doing-great-digital-work-we-could-all-learn-from

Scottish anti-abortion group denies links to religious extremists

Questions have been asked about links between Compassion Scotland and American hate groups.

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-anti-abortion-group-denies-links-to-religious-extremists

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

SCVO response to the inquiry into Public Administration – Effective Scottish Government decision-making (Finance & Public Administration Committee)

All reports can be found on SCVO’s website for more information: Scottish Government funding of voluntary,Supporting collaboration between the third and public sectors: evidence review: The research review conducted,As pointed out in the Supporting Collaboration evidence review: ‘The research suggests that inadequate,As Sheghley Ogilvie from SCVO explained in a blog post last year: ‘I’ve often heard the Programme for,- a platform where organisations openly publish grants data- should also be implemented.

https://scvo.scot/p/57213/2023/02/16/scvo-response-to-the-inquiry-into-public-administration-effective-scottish-government-decision-making

How do you ask people to write reviews?

According to research, 70% of people when asked to write a review, will.,You could also add a widget to your website – this shows your average rating and asks people to share,Just copy and paste the code and add it to your website.,You might also want to consider doing a regular blog post, sharing reviews from Good HQ as well as other,platforms, and finish with a call to action encouraging more people to share their story.

https://scvo.scot/p/21688/2017/11/09/how-do-you-ask-people-to-write-reviews

Developing this website

promote what the organisation does, provide a platform to allow press releases and blog posts to be publicised,Rolling out Good HQ as a trust and engagement platform for the sector.,Goals Represent all of SCVO's platforms in one place, under a coherent style.,Existing blog posts would be ported over to keep a history of what has been published and to allow for,The facility to show blog posts, press releases, authors, related posts, and post categories was pulled

https://scvo.scot/p/24481/2018/01/31/developing-this-website

What if we could use data for good?

looked at the developing movement to publish open data from the third sector (the topic of a separate blog,This was brought sharply into focus over the past few weeks with some of the reaction to Cancer Research,They have used Microsoft’s Power BI platform to allow visitors to the website to explore their data in-depth,A range of case studies are available on the project website, as well as a toolkit to help you think

https://scvo.scot/p/24832/2018/03/22/what-if-we-could-use-data-for-good

Engender’s call for evidence on CEDAW - SCVO response

We have been encouraging our members to also respond – through a blog that Engender’s Jill Wood wrote,for our website which we have shared with our policy networks, and via messages on our Basecamp pages,However, this response pulls together the idea of four female members of SCVO’s Policy and Research team,; we respond both as SCVO employees – with our policy and political and research knowledge – and as women,from young and old; and the prevalence of sexist, sexualised and misogynistic comments on social media platforms

https://scvo.scot/p/25001/2018/04/03/engenders-call-for-evidence-on-cedaw-scvo-response

How to become a data-driven charity

it; but not a big enough problem that everyone cares• Make a startGive yourself 30 days to do some research,You likely don’t need a shiny new expensive platform.• Keep goingOnce you've solved one issue, find another,to display your data like the Citizens Advice live dashboard of searches by general public on their website,others - there are great Data Lab case studies on the impact of harnessing data and Citizens Advice's blog,This blog shows a student placement can have a huge impact on how your charity uses it’s data.Data Lab

https://scvo.scot/p/39244/2020/06/25/become-a-data-driven-charity