Lottery
The National Lottery has a number of discrete strands of funding, known as the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Sports Lottery Fund, the Lottery element of the activities of the Scottish Arts Council and the scheme that covers all four of these areas but awards small grants of up to £5000, known as Awards for All. Policy issue around the lottery include allocation of funds to good causes, split of funds between distributors and between parts of the UK, regional and national input into UK Government decisions about the lottery, priority areas for lottery funding and criteria for application.
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Strategic Funding Review
The Strategic Funding Review involved SCVO, COSLA and the Scottish Executive working together to look at long term solutions to funding issues for voluntary organisations, covering amongst other things three-year funding; full cost recovery; best value; funding mechanisms; and capacity building.
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Funding - Miscellaneous
This section of the website provides an outline of the key policy debates surrounding funding for the Scottish Voluntary sector other than the Strategic Funding Review. It includes coverage of UK Government and Scottish Executive funding, Unclaimed Assets, donated income, fundraising, GAYE, tax-effective giving, European funding, loan finance, the Changing Children’s Services (CSS) Fund and funding the black and minority ethnic voluntary sector.
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Infrastructure
Voluntary sector infrastructure includes all those playing a supporting, co-ordinating or development role within the sector, at local, regional and national levels. Amongst other things it includes thematic intermediary bodies grouped around areas of work and generic CVS grouped geographically. This section contains documents on the development of voluntary section infrastructure and how it should be supported.
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Charity Law
SCVO pressed for changes to Charity Law for over a decade. Here you will find policy and position papers, responses to consultations and draft Bills, submissions to Parliamentary Committees and a number of other papers setting out the progression of our thinking on charity law and on the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), which ultimately resulted in a new Scottish Act being passed in 2005.
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Water
Water supply in Scotland is administered by Scottish Water, Scotland’s only public corporation, which sets charges, defines exemptions and maintains the infrastructure of supply. The Water Industry Commissioner imposes efficiency and performance targets for the industry. The supply of water and charges made for it to voluntary organisations and charities is subject to a longstanding series of policy debates and decisions where the key issue has been affordability. This section covers that debate.
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Compliance
Compliance encompasses all of the regulatory, guidance, best practice and other controls imposed by central and local government and their agencies to ensure effective protection and best practice is in place for all aspects of national life from health and safety, to fire safety, to food standards, to building and planning regulations. The voluntary sector is now obliged to comply with a huge range of varied measures. The implications for the sector of any given piece form the core of SCVO policy work in this area as will be clear from the range of documents available here.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility is the collective term for voluntary contributions by businesses to support the communities in which they operate. These often take the form of funding, in-kind support and facilitation of staff community involvement but can also encompass ethical auditing of all business activity. UK Government promotes CSR as the business contribution to achieving sustainable development goals. This section addresses policy debate and issues around corporate social responsibility and its impact on the voluntary sector.
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Financial Crisis
SCVO is aware that members are worried about the financial crisis and how it will affect them. In particular, many people are concerned about their deposits, whether in the UK or abroad, their investments in the stock market and pension funds amongst many others.
The following guidance looks at the issue of the collapse of Icelandic banks and advises members on compensation available, as well as looking at what organisations can do to minimize exposure to financial risk.
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