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Guest Blog: Being a Kind and Flexible Employer is Key to Managing the Home Schooling Challenge for Charities

Wednesday 20 January 2021

This guest blog is brought to you by Ben Doherty, Partner and Head of Employment with ACOSVO Strategic Partner, Lindsays. Below he encourages charities to go beyond their legal obligations when supporting staff who once again find themselves balancing working from home with home schooling.

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Guest Blog: Furlough factor adds new dimension to ensuring fair play with third sector redundancies

Thursday 15 October 2020

 

This guest blog is brought to you by Ben Doherty, Partner and Head of Employment with ACOSVO Strategic Partner, Lindsays. Below he outlines why fairness and transparancy are of the upmost importantance when considering redundancies

 

When it comes to issues surrounding potential redundancies, it’s not just morally right for us to ensure that everyone is treated fairly - it’s a legal necessity.

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Guest Blog: Cognitive Dissonance and Making an Impact

Tuesday 15 September 2020

This guest blog was brought to you by ACOSVO member, and Director of Barnardo's Scotland, Martin Crewe, who discusses the tricky months ahead & why more than ever we need to be clear & focused on our mission.

 

In this blog I am going to try and pull together two trains of thought that have been on my mind for some time now.  The first is a feeling of cognitive dissonance.  This is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other.

 

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Health & Housing Exchange Extended

Monday 27 July 2020

The Health and Housing Group Leadership Exchange project was established to improve the lives of communities across Scotland by creating stronger links between health and housing leaders.

Now, 8 months in and further funding agreed, project lead and ACOSVO’s Member Services Manager, Phili Wetton updates us on how the project is going:

 

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Guest Blog: Charity CEO Reflections in Scotland During Weeks 11 and 12 of Lockdown

Monday 15 June 2020

This guest blog is brought to you by Julie Hutchison from Aberdeen Standard Capital who summarises the key themes which emerged during ACOSVO's Weeks 11 and 12 CEO Check-In During COVID-19

 

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Guest Blog: Charity CEO Reflections in Scotland During Week 10 of Lockdown

Monday 1 June 2020

This guest blog is brought to you by Julie Hutchison from Aberdeen Standard Capital who summarises the key themes which emerged during ACOSVO's Week 8 CEO Check-In During COVID-19.

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Guest Blog:We Need More Acts of Human Kindness

Thursday 21 May 2020

This blog is brought to you by Ian McLaughlan, a Fellow of ACOSVO and Chief Executive of Youth Scotland. Ian asks the voluntary sector to continue to be tolerant, act fairly, work collaboratively and be more generous in our collective acts of human kindness with each other.

 

 

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Blog: My first month of being in Edinburgh was interesting to say the least...

Friday 15 May 2020

This blog was written by Griet Haegemans, our most recent Belgian intern who has been working with ACOSVO over the past three months. She shares her surreal experience from an evacuation on her second night in Edinburgh to working with us during a global pandemic.

 

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Guest Blog: Charity CEO Reflections in Scotland During Week 8 of Lockdown

Wednesday 13 May 2020

This guest blog is brought to you by Julie Hutchison from Aberdeen Standard Capital who summarises the key themes which emerged during ACOSVO's Week 8 CEO Check-In During COVID-19.

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Guest Blog: Charity CEO Reflections in Scotland During Week 7 of Lockdown

Wednesday 6 May 2020

This guest blog is brought to you by Julie Hutchison from Aberdeen Standard Capital who summarises the key themes which emerged during ACOSVO's Week 7 CEO Check-In During COVID-19.

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