Fraser Devine of Voluntary Action Orkney recently had a guest spot on Radio Scotland’s ‘Around Orkney’ show. Fraser used this opportunity to tell the Orkney community what Milo will mean for it’s community groups as well as for the third sector in Scotland. Listen to the broadcast.
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Archive for the ‘news’ Category
April 24th, 2012
Milo in the Media
April 11th, 2012
Change Champion Case Study – Angus Riding for the Disabled
The Volunteer Friendly Award Change Champion project rolled out Dundee Volunteer Centre’s Volunteer Friendly Award to TSI’s across Scotland, creating a benchmark in good practice and a quality mark for volunteering organisations. Read about how the Volunteer Friendly Award improved the experience for their volunteers here.
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April 4th, 2012
Change Champion Case Study – Giffnock Heritage Project
The Volunteer Friendly Award Change Champion project rolled out Dundee Volunteer Centre’s Volunteer Friendly Award to TSI’s across Scotland, creating a benchmark in good practice and a quality mark for volunteering organisations. The Giffnock Heritage Project completed the Volunteer Friendly Award with support from Voluntary Action East Renfrewshire, you can read about their experience here.
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April 2nd, 2012
Tender Opportunity
An opporunity is now available to undertake the evaluation of the SVA programme. For further information please visit the Jobs and Contracts page.
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March 29th, 2012
SVA Case Studies
As part of the evaluation of the SVA programme we are looking for case studies from TSI’s. We want to get stories from across the network and have prepared an intial set of questions for colleagues to complete regarding their experience of SVA and would appreciate if you could take the time to complete this [...]
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March 28th, 2012
Change Champion Case Study – Dundee Independent Advocacy Project
The Applying Good Equalities Practice Change Champion project provided training organisations to enable them to mainstream good equalities practice into their organsations policies and practices. In addition to this they offered bespoke support to participating organisations and Dundee Voluntary Action used this to develop an in-house training session for the Dundee Independent Advocacy project. Read Dundee Independent [...]
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March 28th, 2012
Latest Milo FAQ’s now available.
Milo is the new ICT platform for for Third Sector Interfaces (TSI’s) and national intermediaries in Scotland. The initiative has been developed by Supporting Voluntary Action with input from all partners across the national sector with particular input from the three Managing Intelligence Pilot TSI’s: Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh and Orkney. This document is intended to answer [...]
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March 22nd, 2012
Change Champion Case Study – Creche Matters
Delivered by West Dunbartonshire CVS, the Developing Quality Change Change Champion project trained TSI staff to become PQASSO mentors and trainers and it didn’t take long for the network to start delivering this service to their members. We spoke to Creche Matters who went through PQASSO with support from CVS Falkirk and District, you can [...]
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March 15th, 2012
SVA in the news
Martin Sime, Chief Executive of SCVO, as a guest columnist in the Caledonian Mercury on-line newspaper. Martin used this opportunity to reflect on the impact the SVA programme has made across the third sector in Scotland. Read the article here.
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March 6th, 2012
Milo Trainer Opportunity
As part of the development of training and support for Milo, the SVA team is currently looking for staff from within the TSI network to act as Milo trainers. This will involve a 3-day Train the Trainer course, followed by committing to deliver at least 2 Milo training sessions to other TSIs, and provide peer [...]
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