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Ilse Mackinnon
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- I’m SCVO’s Research Officer and have a special interest in building the evidence base on the Scottish third sector to help understand the contribution made by third sector organisations. My main focus is on providing insights into the third sector’s activities, finances, workforce and volunteers, and how these are changing over time. Key projects and briefings SCVO State of the Sector annual research briefings, including Research Briefings, Scottish Third Sector Statistics and Sector Forecasts. Financial research – income sources, income growth areas, income types eg Government income; Social Enterprise; Grants; Donations; Assets. Workforce research – numbers of employees, gender, workers with disabilities, work patterns, job satisfaction, eg SCVO Workforce Survey
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Latest posts by Ilse Mackinnon
As we moved out of peak Covid with its lockdowns and social distancing and into more of a recovery phase, the key financial trends based on our analysis of charity data for the period 2021-22 show a sector slowly returning to normal. Last year we pulled out six highlights for the... Read more
Individual giving via donations, legacies and fundraising was worth £1,133 m to the Scottish charity sector in 2021. The value of individual giving doubled over the last decade, in part thanks to time and effort invested by charities and voluntary groups in things like new... Read more
Back in 2015, SCVO and TFN surveyed around 1,000 sector workers about their experiences working in the voluntary sector. Eight years, four UK prime ministers, two referendums and a pandemic later, it was high time for a refresh. Last month GCVS and the Scottish Centre for... Read more
The figures below are from SCVO’s Sector Stats 2022. As well as an overview of the latest key stats we’ve taken a more in-depth look into six highlights. Most charity accounts analysed for the Sector Stats 2022 covered the period April 2020 to March 2021 and show the financial... Read more