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Exclusive: resignation calls at major Scottish charity after founder is expelled
Conservation campaigner Denis Mollison and another senior trustee "driven out" by the John Muir Trust: buff.ly/y8fjWZL
A pioneering fund has announced long-term awards tackling poverty, racism and climate change across Edinburgh marking a major milestone in the ten-year commitment to community-led change.
With energy costs to surge from July, deepening debt will follow
Molly Shevlin of @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social - when costs are unaffordable, arrears are the consequence
A new project is reviewing how Shelter Scotland and Wheatley services are delivered in Glasgow for Black People and People of Colour through an anti-racist lens, so that they can better meet the needs of communities.
New podcast launched to encourage more men to talk about self-harm
Penumbra Mental Health’s self-harm support service, Self-Harm Network Scotland, is hoping that its new podcast series will get more men talking about self-harm - Tina Koenig tells us more: buff.ly/rmucCzW
@shnscotland.bsky.social
To support children, we need to focus on families
Vicky Williams: “The UN International Day of Families reminds us that families, in every form, are the bedrock of childhood”
Vicky Williams is chief executive of Sistema Scotland, who run the @bignoisescotland.bsky.social programme
New processes, major improvements
Martin Hayden of LearnSixSigma.co.uk explores how one @trussellscot.bsky.social foodbank doubled its volunteer effort using simple techniques borrowed from manufacturing
Growing the social economy with a new rainbow parliament
Duncan Thorp of Social Enterprise Scotland on the challenges and opportunities presented by the new parliament: buff.ly/PMEWTIu
@duncanthorp.bsky.social @socialenterprise.scot
TFN is @scvo.scot's magazine for the #VoluntarySector
On this month’s opinion pages, Ewan Aitken of Cyrenians on the need for dialogue after the Holyrood election: “Those conversations may be uncomfortable, but they matter.”
Read it all here: buff.ly/3SD70Dm
@cyrenians.bsky.social
What does Scotland’s social care sector need from the new parliament?
Rachel Cackett of the Coalition of Care and Support Providers In Scotland (CCPS) on what the sector needs from John Swinney’s new government: buff.ly/NpYAWBO
@r-cackett.bsky.social @ccpscotland.bsky.social
Conservation campaigner Denis Mollison and another senior trustee "driven out" by the John Muir Trust
Shelter Scotland and housing provider Wheatley will join forces.
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Penumbra Mental Health’s self-harm support service, Self-Harm Network Scotland, is hoping that its new podcast series will get more men talking about self-harm - Tina Koenig tells us more
