Anna Fowlie of SCVO wrote recently of the strange world we all now inhabit. She told of their sudden change of gear when coronavirus hit and particularly when Scotland went into lockdown, Everything had to change when Scottish Government asked them to be a ‘resilience hub’ for the third sector. The most visible output has been Coronavirus Hub, updated daily with information and resources on areas including funding, running third sector organisations, governance, fundraising, volunteering and much more.
Long active in building digital capacity across
the voluntary sector SCVO found demand for this support increased significantly prompting them to provide information, resources, webinars, 1-2-1 advice surgeries
and learning opportunities. They are now working with Scottish Government to
deliver Connecting
Scotland which will bring devices, training and
connectivity to 9,000 people across the country who are digitally excluded.
Uncertainty is all around us just now which is evident from the SCVO Goodmoves jobs portal. Available for any third sector organisation recruiting staff. Third Force News is now in e-reader format and the TFN archive in also available in the same format. TFN is one way in which SCVO will be covering a new piece of work, #NeverMoreNeeded, being produced in collaboration with similar organisations in the UK and Ireland. It will act as a piece of social history designed to generate debate on what comes next, where this takes us, what a new normal looks like.
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