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Keeping Volunteers Safe: Restarting your Volunteer Programme – new free online course from Volunteer Scotland

Keeping Volunteers Safe: Restarting your Volunteer Programme  This new course covers the key considerations to ensure a positive experience for those returning to volunteering (following COVID-19). The overall aim is to help you prepare your organisation to return; involve and support your volunteers safely. This course is via the Open University’s Open Learn platform. More available free online courses The Involving Volunteers course

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Two New Funding Streams Available

Foundation Scotland have opened applications for two new funds, available across Scotland, for which details are given below. SRC will be offering funding under the same Response Recovery & Resilience Fund very soon, but that does not prevent communities from applying directly.   Response, Recovery & Resilience Fund – The fund has already distributed £3.2m

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Podcast Series: Safeguarding during COVID-19

Social distancing has made it difficult for practitioners to carry out their regular check-ins with children and families. How have they responded to these challenges to ensure needs are still met? Click on the link to check out information from the NSPCC website on various aspects of safeguarding during Covid 19. https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/news?type=6815&utm_source=Corona-newsletter&utm_medium=Podcasts-Ret&utm_campaign=202007_Corona

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Coming Out of Lockdown – Advice and Guidance for Third Sector Organisations

Managing risk As lockdown begins to ease in Scotland, managing risk is vital. Your organisation should already have a risk register and a proactive approach to risk management, but you will need to re-evaluate this given the scale of the coronavirus pandemic. With all risks the key is to identify, evaluate, manage, record and review.

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#NeverMoreNeeded Campaign

#NeverMoreNeeded Campaign Scotland’s voluntary sector has been never more needed and never more stretched than it is right now as we strive to cope with coronavirus. We don’t know what the long-term impact of this will be, but we do know how important it is to record what’s going on now so we can build on

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