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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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Save The Children “sorry” for Blair award
Save The Children admits Tony Blair should not have been given humanitarian honour
NEWS 3 March 2015 by Graham Martin
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Church starts a movement to end foodbanks
Church of Scotland suggests food co-ops and allotments could help stop rise of food poverty
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Paul Cardwell
 
Family say blogger faces beheading
Amnesty International looking into claims made by Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's family that he is to be retried
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Paul Cardwell
 
Privacy fury at big brother database plans
Plans to share confidential NHS information could infringe civil liberties, say campaigners
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Graham Martin
 
Protesters warn: sanction us and we’ll close you down
Protesters to blockade work capability assessment centre in Edinburgh
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Robert Armour
1 comment
 
Welfare cuts cost disabled £2,000 a year
Research reveals true cost of cuts on most vulnerable
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Robert Armour
 
“Shocking” rise in Scots being scammed
Charity reports worrying rise in people being scammed
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Robert Armour
 
I’m no racist claims human rights director
​Chelsea fan at centre of racism storm identified as human rights director from Northern Ireland
NEWS 23 February 2015 by Robert Armour
 
Paradise lost as Milton project faces the axe
Charity working in deprived area could close its doors unless new funders are found
NEWS 20 February 2015 by Graham Martin
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Charities slate Tory plans for compulsory work scheme
David Cameron's plans for a compulsory work scheme slated by leading charities and trade unions
NEWS 18 February 2015 by Robert Armour
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