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Ilse Mackinnon
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- I’m SCVO’s Research Officer and have a special interest in building the evidence base on the Scottish third sector to help understand the contribution made by third sector organisations. My main focus is on providing insights into the third sector’s activities, finances, workforce and volunteers, and how these are changing over time. Key projects and briefings SCVO State of the Sector annual research briefings, including Research Briefings, Scottish Third Sector Statistics and Sector Forecasts. Financial research – income sources, income growth areas, income types eg Government income; Social Enterprise; Grants; Donations; Assets. Workforce research – numbers of employees, gender, workers with disabilities, work patterns, job satisfaction, eg SCVO Workforce Survey
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Latest posts by Ilse Mackinnon
This post originally appeared as an opinion piece in TFN 11 May 2026 (Ilse Mackinnon and Amy Graham).For more on staff wellbeing, job satisfaction and job security etc see the Voluntary Sector Workforce Survey 2025. This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, which prompted me to... Read more
SCVO has just published an analysis of Pay in the voluntary sector. Our analysis found that voluntary sector pay is managing to keep up with inflation and with the private sector, but it is lagging well behind public sector pay. The voluntary sector is also lagging the public... Read more
Our newly published analysis of 2022/23 financial data shows that while the sector’s overall income continues to grow modestly, sustainability remains a key issue. Income from government has remained fairly steady, and income from the public has largely recovered after being hit... Read more
The other week the Economy and Fair Work Committee published the findings of its enquiry into the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, looking at the impact the Act has had over the last decade. The Committee found that while the Act has had a positive impact on increasing... Read more