Government 'must involve the sector in the Youth Contract' 4
Tags: Funding | Public service delivery
Martin Sime
Chief executive, SCVO from 1991
Martin Sime has been chief executive of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) for more than 20 years, having joined in 1991.
He is on the board of ACOSVO, which is the voluntary sector's chief officers network in Scotland, and has served on the New Deal task force and the expert panel on procedures for the Scottish Parliament. He is also currently treasurer of Civicus, a global civil society network and was an advisor to the Christie Commission on Public Service Reform.
Before he joined SCVO he worked in the mental health field and had been the director of the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
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Umbrella bodies have welcomed the creation of the £1bn government fund to tackle youth unemployment but stress that the voluntary sector must be involved in its delivery.
A scheme launched by the Scottish Parliament with the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations has seen 766 jobs in the voluntary sector filled by young unemployed people.
The money flowing into Scotland’s charities fell by almost £100m during 2010 and four in five expect the economic situation to worsen over the next 12 months.
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is urging the Scottish Government and Parliament to embrace an agenda of preventing social problems from occurring rather than trying to fix them once they’ve happened.
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Scotland resists 'Big Society cynical cover for cuts', says SCVO chief 1
Tags: Funding | Statutory funding
The chief executive of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations has released a damning appraisal of the UK government's treatment of the voluntary sector in the context of its response to last week's riots.
Technical briefing
Scottish election - what does the SNP manifesto have in store for charities?
Finance |
26 May 2011
We now have a majority government in Scotland that was supposed to be impossible and an SNP victory that is totally unprecedented. But what should civil society expect from the new government in Edinburgh? Martin Sime investigates.
Three Scottish charitable organisations, including the umbrella body Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, have announced redundancies this week as a result of funding cuts.
Yesterday’s Scottish Budget Statement contained a £70m fund to support the elderly, a £5m fund to support children and youth, and an extra £1m for climate change.
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