Cross Party Group on Volunteering
Volunteer Scotland is secretariat of the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Volunteering. The CPG involves members from all parties, sharing an interest in volunteering.
A cross-party group (CPG) provides regular opportunities to influence MSPs, and cross-sector stakeholders. The aims of this CPG, includes:
- to raise awareness of volunteering across sectors and to increase participation rates in all its forms,
- to ensure volunteering has a high profile in the Scottish Parliament and influences Scottish Government Policy,
- to ensure opportunities for volunteering are recognised across all Scottish Government directorates,
- to examine, and share research from Scotland, the UK and beyond,
- to liaise and work with other CPGs to promote volunteering.
To become a member of the Cross Party Group on Volunteering contact, Margaret Starkie: margaret.starkie@volunteerscotland.org.uk
Margaret Starkie
VS Partnership and Communications Manager and Cross Party Group on Volunteering Secretariat
Key MSPs within the Membership include:
- Foysol Choudhury MSP: Co-Convener, Scottish Labour
- Jeremy Balfour MSP: Co-Convener, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Fulton MacGregor MSP: Deputy Convener, Scottish National Party
- Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP: Member, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Miles Briggs MSP: Member, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Paul O’Kane MSP: Member, Scottish Labour
Non-MSP member organisations include:
- Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations
- Aberlour
- ACOSVO
- Alzheimer Scotland
- Argyll & Bute Council
- Argyll TSI
- Befriending
- Befriending Networks
- Big Lottery Fund
- Breast Cancer Care Scotland
- Breast Cancer Now
- Breast Feeding Network
- British Heart Foundation
- Camphill Scotland
- Cancer Research UK's Cancer Campaigns Ambassador Programme
- Cancer Support Scotland
- Cancer Support UK
- Carnegie UK Trust
- Changing Faces
- Charity Retail Association
- CHAS
- Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
- Citizen Advice Scotland
- Compassion Edinburgh - Local Volunteer Group
- Creative Lives
- CrossReach
- Cruse Scotland
- CVS Falkirk
- CVS Inverclyde
- Dyslexia Scotland
- Edinburgh Children's Charity
- Engage Renfrewshire
- Fife Voluntary Action
- Fresh Start
- Girlguiding
- Guide Dogs Scotland
- Highland Third Sector Interface
- Home start UK
- Home-start Scotland
- Impact Funding Partners
- Institute of Fundraising Scotland
- Intergenerational National Network
- Lead Scotland
- Leonard Cheshire
- LGBTyouth
- MacMillian Cancer Support
- Museum and Galleries
- National Autistic Society
- NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland
- NHS Tayside Board
- Paths for all
- PKAVS Volunteering Hub
- Planning Aid for Scotland
- Positive help Edinburgh
- Quarriers
- RBGE
- Rowan Alba Limited
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Royal Voluntary Service
- Science Connects University of Glasgow
- Scottish Drugs Forum
- Scottish Men's Shed
- Scottish Sports Association (SSA)
- Scottish Water Ways Trust
- Scouts Scotland
- SCVO
- Shelter Scotland
- Sistema Scotland
- South Lanarkshire Council
- St Andrew's First Aid
- Stirling Voluntary Enterprise
- STRIVE
- Stroke Association
- Stroke Support - Scotland
- The Food Train
- The Health Agency
- The International Voluntary Service
- The Machan Trust
- The State Hospital
- The Wood Foundation
- TSI Ayrshire
- TSI Highland
- TSI Moray
- VC Borders
- Voluntary Action Shetland
- Voluntary Action South Ayrshire
- Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire
- Voluntary Health Scotland
- Volunteer Centre East Ayrshire
- Volunteer Centre Western Isles
- Volunteer Edinburgh
- Volunteer Glasgow
- Volunteer Midlothian
- Volunteer Scotland (Secretariat)
- Volunteering Matters
- Wellbeing Scotland
- Youth Link Scotland
CPG on Volunteering Documentation:
CPG on Volunteering: Minutes
29th March 2022
CPG on Volunteering: Minutes
26th October 2021
CPG on Volunteering: Annual Return
2018 - 2019