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- GCVS Blog – Universal Credit: Financial and Digital Impacts
- Integration Joint Board Update
- Third Sector Summit 2017
- Telephone Issue 7/12/17
- GCVS Blog – A Blether With Tam Baillie | Children’s Rights: Opportunities, Progress & Challenges
- SDF Addiction Worker Training Project: Completion Ceremony
- GCVS Blog – #SpeakForGlasgowTS Panel Networking Event
- Aspiring Communities Event | 16 Feb 2017
- Glasgow’s TSI Supports SCoWR Call For Increased Child Benefit
- GCVS Blog – Introduction!
- Upcoming GCVS Training
- 15 Minute Care Visits to be Scrapped
Adult literacy & numeracy
- GCVS CLD Team Round-Up 29 Sep 2015
- Seminars for the Children, Young People & Families Early Intervention and Adult Learning, Empowering Communities
- Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities (ALEC) Funds now open for applications
- GCVS CLD Team Round-Up 3 July 2015
- GCVS Community Learning and Development Team Round-Up
- YCSA New Migrant Voices video
- A Vision for Glasgow Libraries – Stakeholder Consultation
- Glasgow’s Learning Partnership CLD Survey
- Significant Child Poverty Attainment Gap
Albany
Albany cafe information
Albany hire information
Building Connections
- A Quick Guide to Welfare Benefits & Reforms March 2016
- Fee Free Bank Accounts – Now Available
- Welfare Benefits & Reforms: A drive for Plain English
- Glasgow Action on Benefits – Rights & Entitlements Workshop
- Autumn Budget 2015
- No light at the end of the tunnel – report highlights hardship in Glasgow due to Welfare Reform
- GCVS Submit Evidence on new Social Security Powers for Scotland
- Welfare Reform Committee – Call for Evidence – Deadline 28 August
- NHS tackling poverty
community- connectors
- Community Connectors is Looking for Buddy Volunteers!
- GCVS Blog – Community Connectors Social Media Launch
- Glasgow’s draft Strategic Plan for health and social care integration published
- Community Connectors: open for referrals
- We’re looking for Buddy Volunteers for our new Community Connectors service
Employers advice service
- Employer’s Advice – Statutory Increases from April 2015
- Employer’s Advice support for organisations working with children, young people and their families
- Employers’ Allowance: Don’t forget to claim it!
- Flexible working – are your policies up to date?
- TUPE changes in 2014
Equalities projects
- Acas Guides on equality and diversity in the workplace
- £20m funding to tackle violence against women and girls
- Equality Updates | Funding Extra | Jobs Extra – 27th March
- Jobs Extra Newsletter 20th March
- Tribunal Charges a Barrier to Justice
- Personal Independence Payments Call for Evidence
- Wolfson Fund Seeks Scottish Applications
- Welfare Reform: Disproportionate Impact on Women
- PIP Mobility Component Rule Revisited
- Bedroom Tax – People Going Hungry
- Richest in Scotland 273 Times Wealther Than Poorest
- Cost of Child Poverty “Colossal”
- Plan to Tackle Poverty in Glasgow
Everyone's Children
- GCVS Blog – Pupil Equity Funding: Third Sector Experiences In Glasgow
- GCVS Blog – Unlocking Third Sector Potential In Childcare
- GCVS Blog – Children’s Services Plan: Consultation Event
Finance
Funding
- Volunteering Support Grant 2016-17 launched
Funding for older people projects
- Glasgow’s Third Sector to lose millions in funding cuts
- Integrated Care Fund
- Council Sets Out Plans for Older People’s Services
- Reshaping Care for Older People Consultation Events
- Transformation Funds of £700,000 for 20 Older People’s Services in Glasgow
GCVS Blog
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #9
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #8
- GCVS Blog – Outdoor Play Event
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #2
- GCVS Blog – Scam Awareness Month
GCVS Information
- GCVS Local Election Hustings 2017
- GCVS Blog – A Guide to Campaigning
- Join our #SpeakforGlasgowTS Panel & have your voice heard…
- Raza Sadiq awarded ‘Jaguar Unsung Hero of the Year Award’
- Integrated Grant Fund – 3 month extension issued
- Vote for Unsung Hero finalist Raza Sadiq – British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards
- What would make Glasgow’s people and places more resilient?
- Building Connections Glasgow – Share Your Story!
- GCVS joins partnership for best care of elderly
- GCVS analysis table: compare Election manifestos on key issues
- It’s Living Wage Week!
- Connecting Policy to Practice Seminars – 15% GCVS Member Discount
- Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill is Passed
- The Greater Easterhouse Alcohol Awareness Project wins prestigious national award
Health & social care
- Active Communities Funding: deadline 1pm 23rd March
- Integrated Grant Fund – day care for older people – call for applications
- Active Communities Funding Applications invited now
- Developing the Third Sector’s Role in Health and Social Care Integration – TSI Handbook
- Health and Social Care Integration communications survey and update
- Glasgow Disability Alliance welcomes action plan to improve lives of disabled people
- 450 Scots carers to lose £3000 because of PIP
- Health and Social Care Integration – New Partnership Newsletter
- Dramatic fall in numbers of young people in prison
- Health and Social Care Integration update
- Carers Scotland Bill
- Glasgow’s draft Integration Scheme published
- Coalition calls for an end to the “Care Tax”
- City Mission art exhibition and sale
- Simple courtesy goes a long way
- Health and Social Care Integration
- Update on new Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership
- National Care Standards Review: Views sought
IT/Admin support
Learning & development
- Record Rise in City’s Foster Carers
Life long learning guide
Member
- OSCR – Targeted regulation starts 1 April
- GCVS Payroll support sessions
- GCVS AGM 10th December – members to hear update on major changes in Big Lottery investment
- Community centre blocked by £50,000 price tag on 10ft strip of land
- Third Sector Internships Scotland – Call for Expressions of Interest
- Blue Triangle (Glasgow) Housing Association win award for partnership working
- Community Empowerment Scotland Bill Member Consultation & Briefing
Member benefits
- Free GCVS membership to third sector groups in Glasgow with income under £10,000
- Free GCVS membership to third sector groups in Glasgow with income under £10,000
Member profiles
Older people policies
- Services for older BME people to be relocated
- £100 fund to tackle delayed discharge from hospital
- Remove day centre charges and stop cuts to housing support: petitions considered by council
- Get Involved in Silver Sunday 2014!
- 2nd Round of Third Sector Glasgow Transformation Fund Makes 40 awards
- Power of Attorney – Start the Conversation Campaign
- Overwhelming Response To Older Peoples Consultation
- £100 Affordable Warmth Dividend for Older People
- Telecare Charges Controversy
- Reshaping Care for Older People – Draft Joint Strategic Commissioning Plan
Organisational development support
- Charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs with income under £300k can save on water costs through Charities Exemption Scheme
- Grants for sporting activities
- Digital Scotland Challenge Fund, Comic Relief Main Grant news, Glasgow’s Stalled Spaces and more funding news
- Upcoming Deadline for Community Support for Stalled Spaces in Glasgow
- This week’s funding newsletter
- Funding Extra newsletter 13th July 2015
- Big Lottery Fund – People in the Lead
- Just Enterprise procurement Support for TSOs
- Community capacity & resilience fund
- Investing in Communities to close 30th June 2015
- Funding Extra 11th February
- SCVO launches free new funding search tool
- Giving People From Difficult Circumstances New Opportunities
- £100,000 Litter & Flytipping Community Action Fund – applications invited
- Gift Aid – online claims are you ready?
Payroll
Payroll & Finance services
Personal care administration service
- Autumn Launch of Website to Share Experiences of Social Care
- Self-directed Support Act Introduced
Policy & legislation
- Glasgow City HSCP Reviews Statements of Best Practice
- Children and Young People Act parts 1 and 3 – GCVS summaries of draft guidance
- Scottish Programme for Government
- Your benefits, your voice – share your experience
- UN to review government actions on children’s rights
- Emergency Budget will create more poverty for families
- Govanhill “slum landlords” to be tackled
- Scotland’s NGO report on UNCRC implementation submitted to UN Committee
- UK Government “a disgrace” on child poverty
- Community Empowerment Bill passed
- New Youth Justice Strategy announced
- Scotland needs to build 23,000 new homes a year
- Austerity “isn’t necessary and does major damage” – leading economist
- Children and Young People Act consultation of draft statutory guidance for parts 4, 5 and 18
- Devolved welfare powers figures published
- Call for more thought to be given to new welfare powers
- Youth Employability Strategy Published
- New powers for Scotland agreed by Smith Commission
- Sturgeon annouces new programme of reform
- Welfare Reform and the Impact on Individuals in Glasgow
- Get Involved in Challenge Poverty Week This October
- Third Sector Struggling and Reserves Dwindling
- Councils Need to Assess Social Risk of Spending Cuts
- Benefit System Failing
- City Development Plan Consultation
- Day Centre Charges for Older People Put Service at Risk
- Call for Cumulative Impact of Welfare Research
- Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy
- Glasgow Community Planning Audit Published
- Poverty in Scotland Lower Than Rest of UK
- Welfare reform ‘vital’ post referendum
- The Ties That Bind – Support Networks Vital
- Social Care Eligibility Criteria Change in Prospect
- Consultation on Tax Free Childcare
- GDA Criticise GP Policy on Welfare Claims
- Concessionary Rents Update
- Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill – Alliance Briefing
- SCVO Welfare Reform Report Published
Policy/Project
- Food Banks Represent a Dickensian Model of Welfare
- Children and Young People (Scotland) Act Briefing
- £2m Funding for Vulnerable Young People
- Lobbying Bill Threatens Charities Free Speech
- Housing associations: Get Rid of Callous Bedroom Tax
- Scots Academic Says Future Bleak for Young People
- Three in Ten Disabled People Refused Discretionary Housing Payments
- Scotland’s Play Strategy Published
Recruitment
Recruitment support service
Research & Information
- The impact of poverty on women’s health
- Under 50% of young people claim JSA
- Infobase and Engage feedback survey
- Ripple Effect: community consultation on effect of alcohol on Glasgow communities
- Promoting wellbeing, preventing harm
- Women and Welfare – A Call for Evidence
- Families with disabled children going without food and heating
- Call for Sanctions Research Participants
- Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence Coming to Glasgow
- Researching changing work patterns in Glasgow’s Third Sector
- Glasgow Tops UK Workless List
Sector Information
- Community Empowerment & the Third Sector – What does it mean for us?
- Important Communication from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry
- OSCR updates dates guidance for charity trustees
- £6.5m Integrated Grant Fund Cut
- Cordia to close
- Advice for organisations supporting, or intending to support, refugees
- GCVS loves Community Jobs Scotland
- Third sector call for democratic community planning system
- Awards for All in Glasgow’s communities
- Hospital closures and transfer dates to the new South Glasgow Hospitals
- Sanctions in Scotland: evidence, policy in practice and impacts
- £1.1m to support volunteers from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Social Value Lab seeks views on sharing and collaboration among third sector organisations
- Make poverty a thing of the past – join the Poverty Leadership Panel
- Census Stats Show Changing City
- SCVO Speaks Up for Campaigning Charities
- Child Trafficking Risk During Commonwealth Games
- New funding available for local groups in Strathclyde
- Local People Lack Influence in Regeneration
- Third Sector opportunities for disabled and minority ethnic graduates.
- Organisations Need to Create Volunteering Opportunities
- Scottish Government Consults on Rate Exemption for Smaller Charities
- East End Community Hub Launches
- Are you adequately protecting your staff?
- Youth Offending Declines in Glasgow
- £10m Funding for Third Sector in Scotland
Services menu
SVQ courses
Third Sector Interface Information
- Offer of rent & business rates free office space for charities in Glasgow
- OSCR updates guidance
- Alistair Malloy Inspire Awards winners
- Alistair Malloy Inspire Awards – nominations sought
- Anderston/City voluntary sector substitute election – Electoral Register
- Bedroom Tax Call to Action
Training programme
- Training for third sector organisations who deliver services to older people and their carers
Type of membership
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- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #7
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #6
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #5
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #4
- Office Closure – Easter Weekend
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #3
- Update – Office Closure
- Office Closure due to Adverse Weather
- Citywide Forum – Transformational Change Programme Update
- GCVS Blog – Tackling Fraud Together Update #1
- JRF Briefing: Poverty in Scotland 2017
- The National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights – Report on the Third Sector Consultation Event
- Children (Equal Protection from Assault) Scotland Bill – GCVS Respond
- GCVS Blog – Volunteers’ Week 2017
- A New Approach To Community Planning? – Glasgow’s Third Sector Forum
- Tackling Fraud Together
- GCVS Blog – Manifesto for Change
- GCVS Blog – #MeetOurMembers!
- The Cost of the School Holiday – Helping Children and Families
- Participatory Budgeting & the Third Sector
- Glasgow Makes Connections – GCC Event on 26/01/17
- GCVS AGM 2016
- Raza Sadiq Wins Herald Society Unsung Hero Award
- Glasgow Charities Christmas Fayre 2016
- Closing the Attainment Gap – The Third Sector Response
- Glasgow Effect explained
- GCVS manifesto for a fairer and healthier Glasgow
- Glasgow seniors co-housing project plans revealed
- Do you know a family who could do with a break?
- Spring Budget summary
- GCPP Health Check Survey
- Glasgow job creation schemes at risk
- GCVS CLD Team Round-Up 20 Jan 16
- What are your priorities for your police service?
- Alexandra Park consultation
- Find a Solution! Inviting proposals from local charities working with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
- Launch of the Cost of the School Day report
- Third sector considers resilience in Glasgow
- New website to support refugees coming to Scotland
- Core funding and free training for health charities – 2016 GSK IMPACT Awards
- Find a Solution Presentations 2015
- Self Management IMPACT Fund Report
- Glasgow facing £100m cuts
- Views sought on making Scotland a fairer country
- Your Environment Needs You! Calling all 16-30 year olds!
- Glasgow Roads Closed to Play on the Longest Day
- Building Glasgow’s resilience
- Increase in need for food aid in Glasgow
- Scotland’s bid for fairer workplaces
- Have you registered to vote?
- LES Road Closure Proposal for Play and Big Lunch activities in June
- Need help with Analysis? Submit a bid for the Analytical Exchange Programme
- First Minister: “sector is crucial ally”
- Most of Scotland’s new jobs in low pay sectors
- 1000 more Community Jobs Fund opportunities for young people
- Seen Something? Say Something
- Shocking rise in Scotland’s demand for food aid
- Evidence from disabled people forced to use food banks sought
- Vulnerable targeted for benefit sanctions
- Love Food Hate Waste – training workshops for Glasgow community groups Feb and March 2015
- Glasgow Digital Makers seek 100 young people 14-17 to participate in project
- Parents demand inquiry into delivery of free childcare policy
- Glasgow foodbank list
- Scotland in the red
- Recovery? 60% entering employment paid less than Living Wage
- Grant Funding Decisions Due
- Social Edge programme to boost innovation in the voluntary sector
- National Action Plan to tackle child sexual exploitation
- £2m cut to Integrated Grants Fund
- Offer of rent and rates free space for charities in Glasgow
- GAMH under threat of “devastating” 40% funding cut
- Glasgow University Settlement: Find a Solution
- Welcome to our new website!
- Select Committee to Investigate Sanctions Regime
- People with Degenerative Conditions “fit for work in future”
- UK Government Plans on Human Rights “bewildering”
- Draft Budget Published
- How should you calculate holiday pay? We don’t really know for sure yet….
- Living Wage Commission Reveals Blueprint for Lifting 1 Million Out of Low Pay
- Glasgow Bike Hire Scheme Launches
- Call the midwife!
- Commonwealth Games Updates
- Flawed Benefit System Needs Overhaul
- Social Care Budgets at Breaking Point
- Child Poverty Strategy Unveiled
- Progress on Independent Living Strategy
- Clydesdale Bank launches 2014 Spirit of the Community Awards
- “Gagging” Bill Passed
- Proposed Park Rules Under Fire
- Ceremonies Volunteer Cast Performer opportunities
- Carers Consultation Launched
- Bedroom Tax Mistake for Thousands
- Draft Scottish Welfare Bill Consultation
- £12bn Benefit Cuts Planned in Next Parliament
- Free School Meals and Additional Support for Childcare Announced
- Food Poverty Reached Level of Public Health Emergency
- Scottish Human Rights Action Plan Launched
- Important Help for More People Affected by the Bedroom Tax
- Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland
- Glasgow £3m Regeneration Boost
- Trussel Trust to Open Another Food Bank
- Shelter Warns of Homelessness Crisis
- Living Wage Campaign Gathering Momentum
- Council Charging Policies Under the Spotlight
- Limited Rollout of Reassessment for Personal Independence Payments
- GDA supporting disabled people during ‘worst ever crisis’
- Thousands Could Lose Mobility Payments
- 300,000 More Face Fuel Poverty
- CPAG Launch People Like Us Campaign
- Glasgow Bike Hire Scheme
- Community Facilities Social Enterprise Funding Recommendations
- Action to Challenge Poverty
- Women Lose Out in Public Spending
- Unemployed Targeted Again by Tories
- Scottish Welfare Fund Update
- Delay to Closing Learning Disability Day Centres Urged
- Call for a Scottish Welfare System
- Bedroom Tax: Unlawfully Discriminated Against Glasgow Woman
- ALEOS in Spotlight Over Charitable Status
- Glasgow to Become a “Co-operative Council”
- Scottish Goverment Budget – £20m for Bedroom Tax Assistance
- One Million in UK on Zero Hours Contracts
- Research Reveals Shocking Disadvantage in Glasgow’s Queens Cross
- Fears of Rising Food Poverty in Glasgow Over School Holidays
- Action on Payday Lending Gathers Pace
- Glasgow’s Third Sector Transformation Fund – New Round Opens June 3rd
- TUC Complaint – Duncan Smith ‘Misused’ Statistics
- The Impoverishment of the UK
- Benefit Sanctions Investigation
Welfare reform policies
- Surplus food offered to local charities
- 1,000 Let’s Eat Glasgow! food vouchers to go to food banks and social enterprises across the city
- Government guidelines on sanctions ‘appalling’
- 46,000 Glasgow children affected by tax credit cuts
- Welfare Reform: this is how Glasgow responds
- Child poverty “unacceptable”
- Government considers cutting tax credits
- Building Connections Glasgow – update
- Building Connections Glasgow – Local Issues | Local Solutions …Housing Benefit Appeals
- Glasgow City Council Discretionary Housing Payments & Bedroom Tax Charges
- Sanctions system more severe than judicial system – “but lacks its safeguards”
- “Wake-up call” for hardened attitudes towards poverty
- In Work Poverty Research Project (Scotland)
- National Study on Welfare Benefit Conditionality – Call for Participants
- Sanctions: Beyond the Oakley Review
- Swinney condemns continued cuts
- Cumulative welfare cuts hit disabled and families hardest
- Working poor now face sanctions
- Mandatory English training benefit claimants comes into force
- Sixfold increase of people requiring emergency food assistance in Glasgow
- Welfare reform tracking study reports
- Sanctioned claimants ‘disappear’ from unemployment figures
- Voices From the Frontline Report: The Impact of PIP Delays
- Welfare Reform Putting Children at Risk
- Report Outlines Impact of Welfare Reform on Disabled People
- Sanctions Campaign Launched
- Glasgow’s Poorest Communities Suffer Most from Welfare Cuts
- Lone Parents and Welfare Conditionality
- Benefits, housing and debt – give your clients a head start
- Support for Lone Parents from OPFS
- Concerns over Impact of Welfare Reform on Volunteers
- UK Hunger Crisis Concerns Health Professionals
- Unemployed Could be Forced to Take Zero Hour Contracts
- PIP Delays Causing Hardship
- Independent Living Fund to Stay in Scotland
- Food Poverty “Terrifying”
- Research Finds Welfare Reform Food Bank Link
- Bedroom Tax Savings £115m Less Than Predicted
- Benefit Sanctions and Bedroom Tax Putting Tenancies at Risk
- Lost Decade for UK Living Standards
- Over 50,000 Benefit Sanctions for Scotland’s Unemployed
- Welfare System Call for Evidence Issued
- Abolish Bedroom Tax Says UN Investigator
- Low Paid to be Targeted to Do More by DWP
- Shelter: “Help Banish the Bedroom Tax Monster”
- Cost of Raising a Child Grows
- Universal Credit: “Titanic-sized IT Disaster”
- Sick and Disabled Charged up to £130 to Support ESA Claims
- Family Support Services on ‘Your Support Your Way’
- Scottish Welfare Fund may not be reaching those in need
- Glasgow’s Hungry Can’t Afford to Get to Food Banks
- Councils Across Scotland Count Cost of Bedroom Tax
- Passported Benefits Briefing Note
- Glasgow’s Independent Living Strategy Proposals
- GPs Slam Work Capability Assessments
- BMA Slam Austerity
- Bedroom Tax Controversy Continues
Young People project
- Named Person Supreme Court Challenge
- Scottish Government Consultation on Early Learning and Childcare Delivery
- Third Sector responds to challenge of Getting it Right for Every Child
- Glasgow City Council reverses decision on free bus passes
- Scotland to withdraw from Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
- Children with learning difficulties at higher risk of abuse
- Launch of the Children, Young People and Families Intervention Fund
- Hundreds of young carers identified in Glasgow
- Recreation and play and cultural activities – Children’s right to play
- Breakfast clubs under threat – consultation closing May 8th
- GIRFEC Secondment Opportunity at Scottish Government
- Partners in Kinship Care
- Importance of play
- New art therapy programme for east end kids
- Raising Awareness of Children’s Rights in the City – Virtual Consultation 2015
- Youth Scotland – free membership offer for Glasgow based youth organisations
- Childcare costs driving families into poverty
- Why Children Die
- Yorkhill Launches Appeal for 400 Volunteers
- 500 Children’s Panel Members Needed
- Govan Nursery to Remain Open Following Talks Over Funding
- Community Jobs Scotland now open for applications from third sector employers
- GIRFEC Controversy
- Children and Young People’s Mental Health in Scotland
- Getting it Right for Glasgow’s Children and Young People: Consultation 2013
- Early Years Change Fund Awards for Glasgow Announced
- Grandparents Providing More Childcare

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