Community Justice Scotland is pleased to launch a new online directory which contains information about community justice support and court solutions available in each local authority across Scotland: Community Interventions and Support Directory. It’s hoped this will help with quickly identifying effective, community-based solutions when someone is being sentenced in court. The directory could also…
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Becoming a Trustee: Information Sessions
Becoming a Trustee for charity is an exciting opportunity to lend your experience, whether this be lived experience or professional experience to an important cause. As a Trustee you can put your professional skills into action to ensure the charity you’re volunteering for is reaching its goals, running efficiently and planning for the future. Serving…
International Volunteer Managers Day: 5 November 2024
International Volunteer Managers Day (IVMDay) was founded and observed for the first time in 1999, and was developed in order to bring recognition to individual Managers of Volunteers and their roles in the mobilisation and support of the world’s volunteers. International Volunteer Manager’s Day (IVMD) is approaching on Tuesday 5 November 2024 with the theme…
Make Your Mark: Volunteer Managers Conference 2025
Make Your Mark is a campaign to increase the number and diversity of heritage volunteers in Scotland. With heritage defined as built, natural, cultural and intangible heritage. Make Your Mark is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Make your Mark are holding their second annual conference, this year focusing on how to support…
The Driving Force: Volunteer Friendly Award Achievement
We are delighted to announce that The Driving Force have passed the accreditation to become a Volunteer Friendly organisation – congratulations!!
Humanitarian Appeal for Conflicts within the Middle East
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has today launched its Middle East Humanitarian Appeal after deciding that its three criteria have now been met following escalating violence in Lebanon. The DEC, which brings together 15 of the UK’s biggest aid charities including Oxfam, British Red Cross and ActionAid – says the scale of need is overwhelming.…
New Grief Café in Falkirk
In conjunction with Scottish Grief Cafes, the Kit-Tea Café (Cockburn Street) is now hosting free drop-in sessions for anyone over 18 who is navigating grief. The Grief Café will take place on the third Thursday each month from 4:30pm-6pm. The Kit-Tea Café is a non-profit community interest mental health cat café, aiming to combat the…
Cyrenians Parenting Programmes (Denny & Grangemouth)
Open to parents in the Falkirk area, Cyrenians will soon be hosting two Parenting Programmes within Denny and Grangemouth. Starting on Tuesday 29 October 2024, the programmes aim to help unemployed or underemployed parents build their confidence and learn new skills with a focus on supporting health, wellbeing and personal development. These free, part-time programmes…
Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Membership Changes
Most of the Disclosure Act (2020) will be implemented on Tuesday 1 April 2025. While there is no decision regarding fee waivers and reductions yet (for more information, please see our Consultation Update article – linked for your convenience), on this date: There will be different levels and types of Disclosures to choose from. Regulated Work…
Disclosure Scotland Consultation Update
As many of you will remember, Disclosure Scotland ran a consultation on potential changes to fee discounts and waivers during the spring. They received over 1200 responses, including our own CVS Falkirk response which we developed alongside local Falkirk organisations, highlighting the impact that charging for volunteer PVGs could have on the sector. Disclosure Scotland…
