This website uses cookies for anonymised analytics and for account authentication. See our privacy and cookies policies for more information.





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.

 
​Tim Shayler, a pro-bono lawyer, reckons campaigning is far more effective if your cause is constructed around a legal framework

 
​Veteran anti-poverty campaigner tells friends and family has has motor neurone disease

 
Have you bought a poppy yet? In this fantastic video, Tam and Arthur, explain how Scotland's 5.2 million poppies are made by hand in Edinburgh

 
List aims to encourage top leaders to be open about their sexuality

 
The country’s first foodbank taskforce has convened, with the aim of eradicating hunger in Scotland

 

 
​Allegations emerge that an officer in Sheku Bayoh's fatal arrest was violent and racist

 
Susan Smith believes we have become too complacent about the rich becoming richer

 
Lisa Stewart, campaigns and comms manager at Oxfam Scotland, says poverty could be more effectively tackled if wealth inequality is addressed

 
Rory Byrom explains how a charity could end up being the victim of discrimination under the Equality Act