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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.

 
Destitution is built into the asylum process – and drives exploitation, ill health, misery and death

 
More diversity is needed if Scottish politics is to be truly inclusive

 
Staff are working to a quota confidential documents reveal

 
Benefit have been frozen until 2020

 
Bosses of Glasgow's Aleos see salaries soar as budgets get scythed

 
People have rushed to the aid of a Glasgow foodbank after it began to run out of stock

 
​Thousands who receive zero points during PIP assessments have ended up winning their appeals

 
Charities could be at risk of fines because they don't know what campaigning activities they are allowed to take part in during election campaigns

 
Public backing for a new system of wealth distribution is growing, says a new report

 
A record number of Scots are relying on help from foodbanks, it has been revealed