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Getting your charity accounts right: A guide for smaller charities
To help smaller charities get their accounts right, OSCR are hosting a free webinar led by their accounting experts. They’ll explain what to include (and what not to include) in your accounts, with clear examples tailored for small charities. Tuesday 3 March 2026 1pm-2pm Sign up here Join OSCR to learn more about what compliant accounts look like for smaller charities, as well as details about important upcoming changes to how accounts are published on the Scottish Charity Register. There will also be a Q&A during the event. Please submit your questions in advance via the sign-up form to help them answer as many questions as possible during the webinar.

Strengthening the Third Sector  
Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has announced plans to co-design a Third Sector Partnership agreement subject to the outcome of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. Guided by some of the key principles in the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisation’s 2026 manifesto, this will include protecting the sector’s future and independence with fairer funding, a focus on shared goals to improve outcomes for people and communities and providing greater opportunity to contribute to policy and service design. Read more here 

Climate outreach: Research unpacking how Brits think and feel about climate and nature 
Climate Outreach carried out large-scale surveys of more than 7,000 people across Britain, including over 1,000 in Scotland, alongside in-depth focus groups to understand how people think and feel about climate and nature. Their findings show that people in Scotland are overwhelmingly nature-loving and strongly support protecting the environment, yet many feel overlooked and anxious about the future. Climate Outreach concludes that these concerns can be eased by clearly highlighting the positive climate action already going on, helping people see that progress is happening and that a better future is possible. Find out more

Love To Ride 
Love To Ride is a free, fun cycling app that encourages people across West Dunbartonshire to get on their bikes, track their rides and enjoy the benefits of cycling — whether you ride for fun, fitness or everyday journeys. You can log your trips, set goals, connect with other riders and join challenges to win cash prizes! Love To Ride has partnered with West Dunbartonshire Council, so your feedback on routes will be used to help improve local cycle paths and identify which areas are most — and least — popular, supporting better planning for a safe, accessible cycling environment. Sign up today, hop on your bike, help improve your community and win prizes! Find out more: https://www.lovetoride.net/westdunbartonshire

When the heating gave up before I did: a week of cold truths in rural Aberdeenshire 
Are our homes, communities, and infrastructure actually ready for a much colder future – or are we just hoping  we’ll manage? SCCAN’s Ops Lead, Craig Dunn, confronts that question head-on through a chronicle of a week without heating, burst pipes, and power cuts during Aberdeenshire’s “heaviest snowfall in living memory” https://sccan.scot/blog/when-the-heating-gave-up-before-i-did-a-week-of-cold-truths-in-rural-aberdeenshire/?mc_cid=d60b111709&mc_eid=7ecee62880

Applications open for the Scottish Charity Awards 2026   
SCVO is calling for applications for its annual Scottish Charity Awards.  Applications are now being accepted for 2026, with SCVO placing particular importance on hearing from groups and people that reflect the diversity of Scotland’s essential voluntary sector.  All registered charities, social enterprises, campaigning groups, community interest companies and people who work and volunteer in these spaces are eligible to enter.  Read more here