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TFN is published by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Registration number SC003558.

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Susan Smith

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Campaigns Manager, SCVO

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Susan Smith is campaigns manager for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. She has worked as a journalist for twenty years across a range of publications including Which, The Scotsman and the Edinburgh Evening News.
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Out with the bad old 2020
It's been a year of disappointments, but Susan Smith urges Scotland's voluntary sector to take comfort in a job well done
OPINION 18 December 2020
Management
#NeverMoreNeeded
 
Singing the praises of change
Susan Smith is optimistic in the face of a pretty bleak winter to come
LIST 12 November 2020
Management
Funding & Finance
#NeverMoreNeeded
#Change
 
The private sector needs a thriving charitable sector
Standard Life Aberdeen recognises that recovery from Coronavirus will mean everyone stepping up to support #NeverMoreNeeded community services
OPINION 10 November 2020
Management
#NeverMoreNeeded
#Corporate Social Responsiblity
1 comment
 
Winter is coming but are we ready?
Susan Smith on what six months of lockdown has meant for the voluntary sector and what the next six months might bring
OPINION 16 October 2020
Management
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
#NeverMoreNeeded
Coronavirus
Covid 19
Age Scotland
 
It's all about the craic
Susan Smith explores how community groups build relationships and why they are #NeverMoreNeeded than right now
OPINION 12 October 2020
Families & Young People
Management
Funding & Finance
#NeverMoreNeeded
EVOC
community
Buggy Walk
 
Funding the voluntary sector is key to a wellbeing recovery
Susan Smith says building a wellbeing economy means putting money into in the voluntary organisations that help us when we need it most
OPINION 4 September 2020
Management
 
The long and winding road to recovery
Susan Smith reflects on why Scotland's voluntary sector is #NeverMoreNeeded as a glimmer of light starts to appear at the end of the lockdown tunnel
OPINION 6 July 2020
Health & Social Care
 
Out with the old, in with the new normal
The voluntary sector has in some ways been thriving during lockdown, says Susan Smith, but what happens as lockdown lifts will shape the future. #NeverMoreNeede
OPINION 11 June 2020
Funding & Finance
 
Never More Needed than right now
Susan Smith on why SCVO is launching the #NeverMoreNeeded campaign to remind everyone how vital the voluntary sector really is
OPINION 12 May 2020
Regeneration & Housing
1 comment
 
Do more to help feed vulnerable Scots, poverty experts tell government
People are still struggling to get emergency food despite herculean efforts from community groups to reach them
NEWS 23 April 2020
Social Justice & Poverty
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