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Third sector funding survey

Have your say: contribute to the SCDC and CHEX response to the Scottish Parliament call for views on third sector funding

As part of pre-budget 2025-26 scrutiny, the Social Justice and Social Security Committee wants to examine how the Scottish Government’s approach to fair and efficient funding can contribute to the continued effectiveness of the third sector.

This call for views is an important way for third-sector organisations to raise concerns and join the conversation about funding in our sector. Building on the feedback from the recent CHEX network engagement, SCDC are preparing an organisational response.
1.Please tell us what geographical area you cover?
2.Please briefly outline the types of services you deliver.
3.What is the source of your main funding
4.Is your main funding source:
5.How long is your funding agreed for?
6.How often are you required to report on your main funding
7.How do you report on your main funding?
8.How could the current monitoring and evaluation procedures be improved?
9.Do you receive feedback from your funder on how they use the reporting information?
10.What are or would be the benefits for your organisation of your main/core funding arrangements being agreed for 3 years or more?
11.Can you foresee any challenges with longer term funding arrangements? How might they be overcome?
12.Please detail any other sources of funding for your organisation, AND how long they agreed for
13.Which of the following best describes your organisation’s main or core funding income for 2024/2025
14.Which of these sources of funding is your biggest cause for concern and why?
15.Have inflationary pressures been taken into account by your main /core funder? Please give details.
16.What, if any, have been the impacts of inflationary pressures on your organisation for 2024/2025?
17.What would be the impact for your organisation of including inflation-based uplifts and covering full operating costs in your main/core funding?
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What do you anticipate would be the challenges of inflation-based uplifts, and how could these be overcome?
19.Are you a real living wage employer?
20.Please outline any challenges or benefits for your organisation of becoming a real living wage employer.
21.How optimistic do you feel for the future of your organisation?
22.How far in the future do you feel able to plan?
23.Please tell us anything else that we haven’t asked that you feel is important in sustainable, multi-year funding arrangements for third sector organisations?