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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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Five times more Scots turn to foodbanks
The number of Scots seeking help from foodbanks increased by five-fold last year
NEWS 15 April 2014
Social Justice & Poverty
 
New project to improve local third sector support
The Big Lottery Fund Scotland is investing over £400,000 in improving Scotland’s local third sector support services
NEWS 4 April 2014
Management
1 comment
 
Charities lose £1.3bn in government funding
UK Civil Society Almanac shows dramatic fall in government funding to charities
NEWS 3 April 2014
Funding & Finance
 
New service to help curb youth homelessness
Homelessness charity the Cyrenians is setting up a major new national service in a bid to reduce the number of young Scots that become homeless each year
NEWS 3 April 2014
Social Justice & Poverty
 
Social enterprises worth £2bn more than whole third sector
Social enterprises in Scotland are worth £6.9 billion to the Scottish economy
NEWS 3 April 2014
Funding & Finance
1 comment
 
Volunteering project to help young jobless in rural areas
Scotland's youth volunteering agency is set to tackle unemployment in rural Scotland
NEWS 3 April 2014
Families & Young People
 
Welfare reforms are causing severe hardship say MPs
Westminster's work and pensions committee condemns welfare reforms for causing severe hardship to disabled and vulnerable people
NEWS 2 April 2014
Social Justice & Poverty
 
Charity appeal panel wrong to overturn OSCR
Scotland's Charity Appeal Panel was wrong to overturn the decision to remove a Catholic adoption agency from the charity register, says equality body
NEWS 1 April 2014
Management
 
Self-directed support marks a new dawn for social care
From 1 April, Scottish people have the legal right to control their own social care budget, a move that impacts on clients and care staff alike
FEATURE 28 March 2014
Health & Social Care
 
Nine in 10 Scottish charities are financially confident
A survey of Scottish charities by accountants Scott-Moncrieff finds surprisingly high levels of financial confidence in the sector
NEWS 28 March 2014
Funding & Finance
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