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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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Christian charity chief savages the scandal of poverty
Poverty is “an avoidable scandal that robs people of their dignity and diminishes us all,” the chief executive of a major Christian charity has said
NEWS 29 May 2017 by Graham Martin
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JustGiving investigates 200 Manchester fundraising pages
The UK's biggest fundraising site has put 200 Manchester bombing fundraising pages into quarantine over fears of fraud
NEWS 29 May 2017 by Susan Smith
 
Scotland backs global goals for a better world
MSPs pledged to support the world's 17 Sustainable Development Goals at both home and abroad during a recent Scottish Malawi Partnership campaig
NEWS 25 May 2017 by Susan Smith
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Exploitation, misery and death – how the asylum process crushes refugees
Destitution is built into the asylum process – and drives exploitation, ill health, misery and death
NEWS 25 May 2017 by Graham Martin
 
Leading charities unite for greater political diversity
More diversity is needed if Scottish politics is to be truly inclusive
NEWS 24 May 2017 by Robert Armour
 
Brendan Cox: unite against cowardly attacks and heal our divisions
Brendan Cox says cowardly attacks cause great pain - but they must not drive us apart
OPINION 23 May 2017 Guest post
 
Welfare cuts only stigmatise the poorest
Danny Saviola is a welfare rights manager for See Change in the Borders
OPINION 23 May 2017 by Robert Armour
 
FOI request reveals DWP staff told to reject 80% of benefit appeals
Staff are working to a quota confidential documents reveal
NEWS 18 May 2017 by Robert Armour
 
Apprenticeship levy will costs us £130,000 this year
Edel Harris calls on charities to join her in campaigning for more support for organisations that can ill afford the new tax on apprenticeships
OPINION 16 May 2017 Guest post
 
Scots politicians urged to lift Westminster’s benefits freeze
Benefit have been frozen until 2020
NEWS 16 May 2017 by Robert Armour
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TFN Guide to Running a Charity or Social Enterprise 2024

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