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Published by Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

TFN is published by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6BB. 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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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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Celebration as damaging Right To Buy policy ends in Scotland
Housing associations, charities and councils have united in celebration of the end of a policy that saw Scotland's lose half a million council houses
NEWS 29 July 2016
Health & Social Care
 
Disability housing research on the Horizon
Housing association Horizon and Stirling University are carrying out research into adapted housing in a bid to find solutions to a major shortfall
NEWS 28 July 2016
Health & Social Care
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Famous faces in Glasgow to open new Teenage Cancer Trust ward
A duchess, a music icon and a comedy favourite met young Scots fighting cancer at the opening of Glasgow's Teenage Cancer Trust unit
NEWS 28 July 2016
Health & Social Care
 
Supreme Court rules against Named Person
The UK's highest court has said the Scottish Government's Named Person scheme would be in breach of European human rights laws
NEWS 28 July 2016
Health & Social Care
 
Social care sector risks cracking under the strain
A coalition of charities is calling for a wholesale review of the social care system to prevent it cracking under increasing pressures
NEWS 27 July 2016
Health & Social Care
1 comment
 
Chief Encounters: Robbie Norval, a sloth loving flamingo!
Robbie Norval heads up social enterprise Lingo Flamingo and believes Life is Beautiful - just don't ask him to make you a cup of tea
FEATURE 26 July 2016
Health & Social Care
 
Charity launches cutting edge music festival
NTS says the likes of King Creosote and Hector Bizerk are set to bring contemporary music with a Scots accent to Burns' birthplace
NEWS 22 July 2016
Culture & Leisure
 
Thousands of seabirds saved after court backs RSPB
The Court of Session has overturned a Scottish Government decision to approve the development of off-shore windfarms that would threaten rare seabirds
NEWS 20 July 2016
Environment & International
 
Fresh hope for Scottish wildcat with two new litters
The Highland Wildlife Park has announced the birth of two litters of the endangered Scottish wildcat
NEWS 14 July 2016
Culture & Leisure
 
£45m for community ownership projects
The Big Lottery Fund Scotland has launched a new £45m Community Asset fund to help local groups own and manage their own local facilities
NEWS 13 July 2016
Culture & Leisure
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