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Entries are now open for the annual awards ceremony, which celebrates those working to protect Scotland’s natural habitats

The Refugee Festival Scotland will return next month with a packed programme of events

Civil society has mobilised to instigate change globally

Boost for young people post-covid

The Social Enterprise Awards Scotland are set to return this year

Scouts Scotland has launched the #GoodForYou campaign to recruit volunteers

Clic Sargeant will now be known as Young Lives vs Cancer

Climate Fringe Week will take place just weeks before world leaders head to Scotland for COP26

This year’s Henry Duncan Grant programme will support organisations who work on mental health, with BAME communities or small charities

Changes is based in East Lothian, and offers vital support to men with their mental health

New research from Amnesty International and the Human Rights Consortium Scotland finds human rights were overlooked as major public service

The amount of CO2 production financed by Britain’s banks is nearly double the UK’s annual carbon emissions

More than £17,000 was raised through Miles for Mikeysline

Frameworks supports organisations to tell their stories

The new health destination is planned for Auchinleck in Ayrshire

Hope is the poems will help alleviate stigma

The organisations have said urgent action is needed to examine the wide-ranging impacts of the virus and lockdown

SCIAF is working with its international partners to provide vital support for those affected by heavy bombing in recent weeks

The Eilidh MacLeod Memorial Trust was set up in memory of a teenager who loved music

The site for the new Eden Project in Scotland, which will create 500 jobs, has been revealed

More people want to become foster parents

Cash will be used to plant woodland in UK

Group boosts its leadership team

The role of communities secretary has been axed in Nicola Sturgeon’s new cabinet team

But charity retail welcomes the move

Report found instances of institutional racism at the group

James McAvoy is amongst those behind a new fundraising campaign from the STV Children’s Appeal

Big Hearts and Hearts FC have added a new initiative to their Football Memories project

Campaigners say urgent support is needed for low-income families

Volunteering Matters has launched support for communities to get back to outdoor environmental volunteering

Videos of fans chanting anti-Irish slurs have appeared on social media since the weekend

Plans to place new restrictions on the right to protest and stricter limits on access to judicial review will make

Twitcher took to Twitter to highlight anomaly

Barrowland Ballet’s Family Portrait is an interactive installation piece themed around a single parent with her three children

Looking over the past month – exclusive for SCVO members

North East Sensory Services (NESS) will receive £90,000 over the next five years

Community action saw hundreds block the detainment of two Indian men

Berwickshire in Lockdown documents the efforts of community groups, charities and social enterprises to the coronavirus

Support for those aged 65+ will help with earlier intervention to stop physical and mental health problems from under-nourishment deepening

Hundreds foil dawn raid in Glasgow by Border Agency officials

Travel companies are holding onto customers’ cash

The National Trust is highlighting the places that Scots love are reopen

The Trussell Trust has published its State of Hunger 2021 report

Since the first lockdown, there has been a 208% increase in Big Issue vendors offering cashless payments via the Zettle

Partners in Change is open to organisations with a turnover of £2m and over

The eighth annual Off the Beatson Track will return as a virtual event

Getting out and about can combat stress depression and anxiety

Investments, pensions and insurance policies will be classified under the scheme

The youngsters are aiming to clear 10,000 miles of litter during the Big Summer Clean

Kim Leadbeater plans to stand in the Batley and Spen constituency that her sister Jo Cox represented

Jason Knauf began working for the Cambridges after an alleged row with Meghan Markle

Kibble has joined forces with the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland

All places for the first round of the course were snapped up in 48 hours

Claim made at employment tribunal

A charity has said restrictions being eased will bring much needed hope for older people

Stewart Lamb Cromar is building Edinburgh’s Main Library for charity

The ScottishPower Foundation is supporting nine organisations from across the country

Alison Stone will lead efforts to crack down on voluntary sector cyber crime

Arts organisations say the 2m rule places pressure on an industry which is already struggling to survive

Outdated and harmful practice should be outlawed

New magazine looks at the charity sector’s relationship with government

Boost for disabled people’s rights in Scotland

Expansion for GHA

Sean McLaughlan, James Connell and Stephen Mather will take in Glasgow’s football stadia in a fundraising challenge

Lorraine Kelly, Michael Sheen and Katherine Grainger are among host of backers of a viral campaign to say Thank You

Campaigners want this administration to finish what it started

My Poppy Run is a new fundraising challenge encouraging supporters to run, walk or jog in aid of veterans

The new initiative has been launched to mark Demystifying Death Week

Increasing demands of Covid causing burnout

How to ensure donated devices have been safely prepared before passing them on to service users.