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Do More Good podcastEpisode 118: The price of everything, the value of nothing with Scottish Fundraising Conference plenary speaker Anna Fowlie"We need to talk about what goes wrong so we can learn"Anna Fowlie, the CEO of the SCVO took to the stage on Wednesday morning in Glasgow, kicking off day two of the Scottish Fundraising Conference. We caught up with her the night before to talk through her journey to the plenary stage. We found a passion for mediaeval Islamic and European art and architecture, references to Oscar Wilde and tips for first-time conference attendees - but we also strayed off-topic into the pressure of representing thousands of organisations, taking up the big s...2024-10-1134 min
1000 Better StoriesYear one of Fife Climate Hub - deepening the network for actionKaska Hempel reports from the Fife Climate Hub gathering in celebration of their first year. We hear how they have built on longstanding partnerships, welcomed new faces and the critical importance of leadership from governments in support of the urgently needed community climate action.
Consider this leadership when voting in general election on the 4th of July.
Reviews of party manifestos on environment:
Carbon Brief (Energy and climate only) - includes SNP and other minor parties
https://www.carbonbrief.org/uk-election-2024-what-the-manifestos-say-on-energy-and-climate-change/
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth...2024-07-031h 08
Digital Health Connect: Empowering Global Collaboration by ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector#29 ⎯ Digital Innovation: Reducing drug related harm and deathsECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector was pleased to partner with our members, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre in Scotland and the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations during #DigiFest to record a podcast on using digital health solutions in the area of tackling deaths associated with substance misuse.Discover how digital solutions can make a difference and delve into Scotland's distinctive approach with our panel of experts:
- Alexander Baldacchino, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Addiction at the University of St Andrews- Moira Mackenzie, Deputy Chief Executive at Scotland's Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre...2024-01-1840 min
Turing’s Triple HelixAI in the Third Sector: Implications of AI for Young People & Voluntary OrganisationsIn this episode of Turing's Triple Helix, we discuss the implications of artificial intelligence for third sector organisations and young people.
Guests:
John Fitzgerald, Digital Evolution Manager at SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations)
Kirsten Urquhart, Chief Executive at Young Scot
Links:
SCVO: https://scvo.scot/
Young Scot: https://young.scot/
Original music from Post Coal Prom Queen: https://www.postcoalpromqueen.com/
2023-07-0649 min
Charity ImpactDigital for charities and nonprofits with Ross McCulloch, Founder of Third Sector LabAre you interested in harnessing technology for social impact at your charity, social enterprise or non profit?
Are you interested in digital improvement or digital transformation?
Much of the nonprofit sector is way behind where it could be in terms of digital capabilities, so Ross McCulloch talks us through key areas charity leaders and teams need to think about in harnessing technology for social impact.
Ross McCulloch is founder of Third Sector Lab, where he leads on working with charities to help them use digital and social media as a tool to deliver...2023-03-2851 minCharity ImpactDigital for charities and nonprofits with Ross McCulloch, Founder of Third Sector LabAre you interested in harnessing technology for social impact at your charity, social enterprise or non profit?
Are you interested in digital improvement or digital transformation?
Much of the nonprofit sector is way behind where it could be in terms of digital capabilities, so Ross McCulloch talks us through key areas charity leaders and teams need to think about in harnessing technology for social impact.
Ross McCulloch is founder of Third Sector Lab, where he leads on working with charities to help them use digital and social media as a tool to deliver...2023-03-2851 min
Discourse ZARebooting Our PoliticsThe tech revolution is the central political challenge of our time. As technological advances continue to accelerate, political institutions with their roots in the previous century are struggling to adapt. In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn is joined by Chris Yiu, executive director at the Tony Blair Institute, to talk about the challenges of governing in the 21st century. They discuss the pros and cons of governance by technology, the need to reform political parties for the internet era, and how we can improve the dialogue between those changing the world with new technologies and those seeking...2021-07-0153 min
DigiListenEpisode 18 - Keeping people informed online - Season 1 ReviewIn this series of podcasts, we’ve been hearing advice from experts and talking to voluntary organisations about what they’re learning and how charities can make use of digital and tech to reach and help people.
In this final episode, Ross McCulloch and Maddie Stark chat through their highlights from the season.
Resources mentioned:
SCVO Digital
Beth Kanter on remote working
Lou Downe on Service Design
Sa...2020-12-0100 min
ALLIANCE LiveDigital Inclusion - Self Management WeekThis ALLIANCE Live podcast with Kirsty MacNeil (Aberdeen Foyer IMPACT project), Aaron Slater (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)) and Oonagh Brown (Scottish Commission for Learning Disability (SCLD)) responds to the six provocations set out below:
Provocation 1:What are the main ways that digital exclusion impacts the people you support?
Provocation 2:What has been the biggest change you’ve seen since the beginning of lockdown for the people you support?
Provocation 3: How can we ensure that the people who aren’t online, and don’t want to be, aren’t excluded?
Provocat...2020-09-2829 min
Cue and Review Talking NewspaperCue Talks - Employing young people especially those with disabilities, SCVO Community Jobs ScotlandEmploying young people especially those with disabilities. Moira Cuthbertson is the SCVO Community Jobs Scotland Manager and spoke this week to Liz Baillie our Access to Audio Ambassador Team Leader. Cue and Review Recording Service have been involved in training programmes since 1985 and have been delighted to work with Moira and her team at the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations. For more information on CJS please visit https://scvo.org.uk/jobs/community-jobs-scotland
#CueAndReview #InsideSoap #AccessToAudio #TalkingNewspaper #HeraldScotland #GlasgowTimes #NationalScotland #PrintSpeakingToTheBlind #EastDunbartonshire #volunteering #VisuallyImpaired #MentalHealth #ImpactFundingPartners #RSMacDonaldCharitableTrust #SouterCharitableTrust #Glasgow #glasgowpodcasts #eastdunbartonshirepodcasts #BishopbriggsMediaCentre #volunteering #ItTakesATeam #CelebratingVolunteeringSince822020-09-0912 min
DigiListenEpisode 11 - Data Driven CharitiesUnderstanding your data can give you a competitive edge. Our focus for this episode is all things data. Ross McCulloch and Maddie Stark chat through highlights from our Zoom call with experts, looking at how to use your existing data to make decisions.
Speakers:
Brian Hills, Deputy CEO & Head of Data, The Data Lab
Brian has 17 years experience in analytics and software engineering, across domains including Telecoms, IT and Digital.
Steve MacLaughlin, Vice President of Data & Analytics...2020-06-2034 min
DigiListenEpisode 9 - Service Design for CharitiesCharities have been designing services for years. Whether digital or in-person, good service design ensures people are supported and empowered to actively participate in the definition, design and delivery of the services they access. New approaches give simple techniques and processes to involve beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and partners in even more effective ways.
Here, Ross McCulloch introduces highlights from our Zoom call with global experts in the service design field.
Our speakers include:
Tom Norman - Head of Service Design, Barnardo's Innovation Lab
2020-06-0352 min
DigiListenEpisode 8 - Cyber Security for Third Sector OrganisationsIn the first of two episodes this week, we have Derek Gordon, UK Territory Leader for Identity and Access Management at PwC. Derek has 20+ years IT experience, working on a wide range of high profile cyber security projects for PwC globally.
Derek explores the key areas charities need to think about when it comes to cyber security, looking at strategy, people, governance and operations, highlighting it is not just an IT issue.
Key resources from this week include:
Scottish Government’s Cy...2020-05-3034 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeSCVO Digital Senior Leaders Programme PodcastSCVO Digital Senior Leaders Programme Podcast by Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations SCVO2020-05-0523 min
DigiListenEpisode 1 - Privacy and SafeguardingWelcome to a brand new podcast from SCVO and Third Sector Lab.
With the sudden impact of coronavirus, charities, community groups, social enterprises and voluntary organisations of all sizes are shifting their service delivery into digital and online channels. We've been hosting online weekly chats with folks from all kinds of charities, talking about what they’re learning and how charities can make use of digital and tech to reach and help people. In DigiListen, we bring you some of the highlights from what charities have been talking about this week.
Links
Head to...2020-04-0731 min
DigiListenDigiListen: Digital service delivery for the voluntary sector - WelcomeWelcome to a brand new podcast from SCVO and Third Sector Lab.
Charities, community groups, social enterprises and voluntary organisations of all sizes are shifting their service delivery into digital and remote channels. In this series of podcasts, we’re talking to experts and people on the front line about what they’re learning and how charities can make use of digital and tech to reach and help people.
In week one, we're talking about Online Safeguarding & Privacy.
Links
CO...2020-04-0701 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeHebridean Housing PartnershipHebridean Housing Partnership by Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations SCVO2020-03-1809 min
Cracking Charity ChatCracking Charity Chat. Ep. 19. Ross McCulloch on DigitalA chat with Ross McCulloch from Third Sector Lab - the guy that knows what we need to know about digital. We chat digital transformation (what even is it?), digital culture, Digital Trustees and Digital Leaders (the latter through SCVO), the role of infrastructure organisations in supporting charities to get better at and scale up digital transformation. Ross gets ranty about on-line forms, I talk myself into a hole of nonsense and there's an unplanned critique of funding. Enjoy!2020-03-0700 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeCyber Essentials AccreditationCyber Essentials Accreditation by Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations SCVO2020-02-2611 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 9 - Make Renting RightIn our ninth episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Fiona King, National Campaigns & Policy Manager for Shelter Scotland, about the Make Renting Right campaign featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-11-0425 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 5 - Climate ChangeIn our fifth episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Mike Robinson, CEO of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society & former Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland about the Climate Change campaign featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-11-0425 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 8 - Smoke Free Public SpacesIn our eighth episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Sheila Duffy - Chief Executive of Ash Scotland - about the Smoke Free Public Spaces campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-09-3021 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 7 - Right To RoamIn our seventh episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Helen Todd - Campaigns and Policy Manager at Ramblers Scotland - about the Right to Roam campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-09-3023 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 6 - Community Right To BuyIn our sixth episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Peter Peacock - former Policy Director of Community Land Scotland - about the Community Right to Buy campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-09-3024 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 4 - Free School MealsIn our fourth episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Marion Davies from One Parent Families Scotland and John Dickie from Child Poverty Action Group Scotland about the Free School Meals campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-08-2000 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 3 - Free Personal CareIn our third episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Maureen O’Neill from Faith in Older People and Richard Baker from Royal Blind about the Free Personal Care campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-08-0500 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 2 - Equal MarriageIn our second episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Tim Hopkins from the Equality Network and Colin Macfarlane from Stonewall Scotland about the Equal Marriage campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-07-1600 min
Scotland, Charities and Holyrood: 20 Years Delivering ChangeEpisode 1 - Social SecurityIn our first episode, our Senior Policy Lead Jenny Bloomfield chats to Richard Meade from Marie Curie and Susan Webster from MND Scotland about social security and their joint campaign which featured in 'Charities, Scotland and Holyrood: Twenty Years Delivering Change' - SCVO's limited edition book which celebrates two decades of the voluntary sector working with the Scottish Parliament.2019-07-0900 min
Future-Proof Your CareerAutomation in the Third SectorTom replays his talk from SCVO's giant charities conference, The Gathering, where he helped third sector organisations to understand how automation my benefit - and threaten - their organisations, and missions. Plus, takeaways from Mobile World Congress, one of the world's largest technology shows.2018-03-2612 min