# How to join

## **Who is eligible?**

Any organisation that is a Scottish Registered Charity can apply to join the SCVO Credit Union as a Payroll Partner. You’ll be one of the many voluntary organisations we work with across Scotland.

## **Getting set up**

To become a Payroll Partner is simple and quick to set up. And there’s no cost to your organisation in offering our workplace savings scheme to your employees and volunteers.

It’s also low risk. There’s no need to access your teams’ SCVO Credit Union accounts – all you have to do is transfer their savings or borrowings via your payroll. And because this is not an employee salary sacrifice scheme, there are no tax issues for your organisation. The savings you transfer to the SCVO Credit Union always belong to your employees and volunteers.

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Once your organisation has decided to introduce workplace savings with us, we’ll provide you with a Service Level Agreement that sets out how we’ll work together. It’s a commitment to work for the benefit of your team members.

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The SCVO Credit Union team will take care of putting the systems in place to get your payroll deductions up and running. Once the workplace savings scheme is in place, we’ll help tell your team all about it with information, support and marketing materials. We’ll be with you every step of the way.

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We’ll also help you develop an engagement plan: you tell us the best way to your team, and we’ll arrange the roll out.

## **Get in touch**

If you’d like to become a Payroll Partner with the SCVO Credit Union or want to find out more, please contact Tom McVay at **[thomas.mcvay@scvo.scot](mailto:Thomas.McVay@scvo.scot)**. Tom will be more than happy to help you.

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## About SCVO Credit Union

SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) is the national membership organisation for Scotland's voluntary sector.

Our role is to champion the role of voluntary organisations in Scotland and to support them to do work that has a positive impact.

SCVO supports members and the wider voluntary sector with all aspects of setting up and running a voluntary organisation. SCVO represents the needs and concerns of the voluntary sector to the Scottish government in Holyrood and UK government and Westminster. Through our learning and events programme SCVO offers training and development opportunities to the sector.

Members access an extensive membership benefits package including specialist, in-depth, 1-to-1 guidance from our Information Services team and from professional service partners.

Access to exclusive membership networks (including comms, employers, governance and policy) supports members to grow their connections, stay up to date, exchange ideas and views with peers, and learn through tailored learning opportunities.

SCVO members enjoy free access to Funding Scotland Premium to stay on top of funding opportunities to support their organisation’s financial resilience.

Discounts and savings on SCVO products and services (including our HR service, managed IT support, payroll service and events and training) and partner offers provide members with support to allow them to focus on delivering their organisation’s goals. Further SCVO products and services include [extensive digital support](https://scvo.scot/support/digital), a climate action resource [Growing Climate Confidence](https://climateconfident.scot), a voluntary sector publication [Third Force News](https://tfn.scot) and a voluntary sector jobs and recruitment service [Goodmoves](https://goodmoves.org).

For more information on SCVO membership, visit [SCVO membership](https://scvo.scot/membership)