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PKAVS short listed for 2018 Living Wage Champion Awards
PKAVS Third Sector and Volunteering Hubs have been shortlisted for the Champion Awards under the Employees’ Choice Award category. This award category celebrates those employers who have made steps to and succeeded in reducing in-work poverty and improving the...
Volunteer Dundee: Bringing people together to fight loneliness in Dundee
Volunteer Dundee has been successful in gaining £125,000 of funding as part of a £2 million Big Lottery Fund cash boost for Scottish community projects. The cash will help to expand Volunteer Dundee’s existing projects which are helping to tackle loneliness in the...
“TSIs are enabling better community and voluntary sector use of public information…”
….said the Scottish Information Commissioner and the Information Commissioners Office in Scotland, at a meeting of the Scottish Public Information Forum earlier this month. The Scottish Public Information Forum (SPIF) was originally established as a unique way to...
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Guest Blog: Strengthening Freedom of Information for the Third Sector
The press and media consistently reveal information of public interest, only sourced because individuals, journalists and organisations decided to use their right to know and make a request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FoISA). ...
Being a woman in Scotland today – a tale of two halves?
In the spirit of empowering women and closing the gender gap this International Women’s Day, is it time we looked more closely at the picture in our own cities, towns and rural communities? You may remember back in 2017, BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour commissioned a report...
Why local is best when it comes to Facebook and your charity
At the beginning of 2018 Facebook announced one of its biggest changes to date – a move towards making the platform ‘more about connecting you to the stories and people that matter most’ - in other words Facebook is going back to basics. The changes These changes...
