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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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Make your new year’s resolution to volunteer
Martin Docherty-Hughes explains why people should make their new year resolution to volunteer in 2017
OPINION 19 January 2017 Guest post
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This government cares not one jot for the ordinary people of this country
​Maggie Lennon says those who voted for Brexit now appear to have been turkeys voting for their own early Christmas
OPINION 19 January 2017 Guest post
 
DWP slammed for “shambolic” Universal Credit roll-out
MP demands figures on how many people are being put on Universal Credit in error
NEWS 18 January 2017 by Robert Armour
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Charity hails ruling branding two footballers rapists despite no criminal conviction
Rape Crisis Scotland says the landmark civil court ruling could open door for more civil rape trials
NEWS 17 January 2017 by Robert Armour
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Disabled claimant takes DWP to court over email
Claimant believes DWP is breaching disability legislation
NEWS 17 January 2017 by Robert Armour
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Rich getting richer at the poor’s expense
Oxfam report highlights "grotesque" inequality in distribution of wealth
NEWS 16 January 2017 by Robert Armour
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Shared society is a sham - and Tories must keep off our territory
Graham Martin says the Tories must not be allowed to use third sector as cover for their agenda of inequality and division
OPINION 12 January 2017 by Graham Martin
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Poll: Is it degrading to stop asylum seekers from working?
POLL 12 January 2017 by Paul Cardwell
 
Bid to give asylum seekers the right to work
Glasgow MP will take forward debate in which she will press for asylum seekers to be given right to work
NEWS 11 January 2017 by Robert Armour
 
Hugely successful sleepover raises £500k for social enterprise
Social Bite has announced it raised more than £500,000 from a celebrity sleepover
NEWS 11 January 2017 by Robert Armour
TFN Guide to Running a Charity or Social Enterprise 2024

This year’s Guide takes a look at how the sector is progressing in inclusion, diversity, equality and environmentalism - what more can be done to further these aims, featuring a wealth of expert opinion, advice and reflection.

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