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The voice of Scotland’s vibrant voluntary sector

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.

Susan Smith

Posts by Susan Smith

Campaigns Manager, SCVO
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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The number of Scots seeking help from foodbanks increased by five-fold last year

 
The Big Lottery Fund Scotland is investing over £400,000 in improving Scotland’s local third sector support services

 
UK Civil Society Almanac shows dramatic fall in government funding to charities

 
Social enterprises in Scotland are worth £6.9 billion to the Scottish economy

 
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

 
Scotland's youth volunteering agency is set to tackle unemployment in rural Scotland

 
Westminster's work and pensions committee condemns welfare reforms for causing severe hardship to disabled and vulnerable people

 
Scotland's Charity Appeal Panel was wrong to overturn the decision to remove a Catholic adoption agency from the charity register, says equality body

 
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

 
A survey of Scottish charities by accountants Scott-Moncrieff finds surprisingly high levels of financial confidence in the sector