There is currently one tender opportunity available Milo Ad-hoc Reporting Training Design and Delivery This tender is open to colleagues from the TSI network The closing date for return of all tenders is, noon, February 28th 2013 Please download the specification here If you would like further information please email your enquiry to supportingvoluntaryaction@scvo.org.uk
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February 20th, 2013
Tender Opportunity: Milo Ad-hoc Reporting Training Design and Delivery
December 3rd, 2012
Milo Healthcheck Review Report available
In September the SVA Management Group asked BIG to consider funding a review of MILO, to ascertain whether the system was fit for purpose and to make recommendations to ensure its successful roll out and management. Following competitive tender, Valuta Consulting were selected to deliver the ‘project healthcheck’ review. Valuta have extensive experience of reviewing [...]
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June 6th, 2012
Milo Interim Database approved
Sopra Group (the developer of Milo) has now approved the Milo Interim Access Database for bulk migration of organisational records to Milo. The Interim Access Database allows TSIs to collate their organisational data records into one place. It is a very simple one-table Access database which contains all of the Core Minimum fields. The database [...]
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May 31st, 2012
Programme Evaluators appointed
SVA are pleaesd to announce that they have appointed an organisation to evaluate the SVA Programme. To find out more please see the Monitoring and Evaluation page.
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May 23rd, 2012
Milo Organisational Fields – Screenshots
A document is now available on the Managing Intelligence page containing screenprints for Milo covering all of the core and additional organisational fields. This will enable you to see how the fields are presented on the system itself. The Milo fields are organised in an accordion system, allowing you to expand and collapse the panels of [...]
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April 24th, 2012
Milo in the Media
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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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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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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