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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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Membership

The biggest challenges we’re facing at the moment are recruitment, and the financial crises around cost-of-living,Brexit and the pandemic have left the social care sector facing some serious staffing challenges.,workshops, befriending calls and a suite of digital self-help resources which have all been a major,Therefore, our biggest challenge now is meeting the demands on our free wellbeing services.,takes additional funding and financial support.

https://scvo.scot/membership

Scottish Third Sector Tracker

Most recent findings Wave 7 findings - Winter 2023 Waves 1-6 summary report - Spring 2023 Wave 6 findings - Spring 2023 Find out more about the tracker and see results from the previous waves Frequently Asked Questions

https://scvo.scot/research/scottish-third-sector-tracker

Scotland's Digital Participation Charter Fund

We are no longer taking applications for Round 5 Introduction Scotland is already a digital nation.,Over the past three years, the Digital Participation Challenge Fund and Charter Fund have supported 126,projects across Scotland to get people online and develop basic digital skills.,Supported by the Scottish Government and BT, the new Digital Participation Charter Fund is now open for,There is a particular focus for the Fund to support organisations currently working to tackle poverty

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/charter-funding

Scotland's Digital Participation Challenge fund

Our Digital Participation Challenge Fund, supported by the Scottish Government, the ERDF and BT, invests,The projects that we’re supporting will enable groups and organisations to digitise content, build digital,third round of the Digital Challenge fund with fantastic project ideas coming in from across the country,fund and a further 7 have been supported with money pledged by BT Scotland.,Participation Leadership Group made 33 direct offers of funding for digital participation projects.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/challenge-fund

The three underpinning enablers

to build capacity to provide digital skills support.,It is important to acknowledge that funding and capacity is often a challenge for organisations tackling,their role effectively as well as embedding digital support.,Despite a range of funding programmes to support digital inclusion a few years ago and more recently,There are very few, if any, funding opportunities specifically for digital inclusion.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/roadmap/the-three-underpinning-enablers

SCVO Annual Review 2020-21

Challenges A note of the challenges our organisation has faced over the past 12 months.,support, development of digital platforms and delivery of a shared funding platformtransforming the,offering ‘quick fix’ emergency digital support service to 60 organisations.,to support learning and developing long term digital skills.,We supported 28 tenants from our shared office space and 33 managed IT clients to navigate the challenges

https://scvo.scot/about/work/annual-review/html

SCVO Impact Report 2021/22

, as well as supporting voluntary organisations to be more digitally engaged themselves.,Of course we have our challenges.,and support from our information and customer services teams During another hugely challenging year,and the communities they support. 1,625 applications 625 awards made £17.7m distributed Our Funding,Had the chance to learn directly from digital experts 76 Digital checkups 18 Topical digital training

https://scvo.scot/about/work/impact-2021-22

SCVO Digital Call To Action 3

gets digital Themes and key next steps Our ask to funders and support organisations Introduction This,of digital challenges Our ambition for Scotland’s voluntary sector:Everyone gets digital We’re calling,Funders need to resource organisations to design services well and ensure they do not fund ‘solutions,Funders have an important role in providing core and flexible funding so that organisations can keep,or more specialist topics Use SCVO’s Digital Skills checkup to spot gaps and challenges across the organisation

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/call-to-action-3

SCVO Impact Report 2022/23

presented the sector with another very challenging year, so we amplified our support to make sure that,These findings continue to be pivotal in shaping SCVO's policy, digital, communications and support activities,were able to benefit from more accessible and flexible funding support, we continued the development,This emergency work took place alongside our continued support of digitally excluded households across,webpage views 60 organisations received Cyber Readiness Check support calls Digital inclusion SCVO’s

https://scvo.scot/about/work/impact

User insight

Gaining insight into what kind of support your users need is key.,MiFis can aid delivery in areas where connectivity is challenging.,Seek funding to help buy devices and connectivity.,This could be a funding pitch to your Board or applying for a grant.,Motivation You will need to motivate people by keeping your digital inclusion support person-centred.

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/inclusion/doing-digital-inclusion/understanding-digital-inclusion/user-insight

Our work to help organisations grow their digital capacity is supported by: