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Engage Update - 23 February
CyberScotland Week 2026
CyberScotland Week returns for its eighth year from 23 to 28 February 2026 and organisations, businesses and community groups across Scotland can get involved by hosting an event or activity. The week brings people and sectors together to share knowledge, strengthen resilience and celebrate innovation in cyber security.
“Can’t Hack it?!”
The 2026 theme continues last year’s focus on “Can’t Hack it?!”, highlighting how everyone in Scotland can take simple, practical steps to stay safer online. From individuals and families to small businesses and large organisations, the message is clear: improving cyber resilience does not have to be complicated, but it does require awareness and action.
Trading Standards Scotland - 19 February
Cyberbyte February 2026
Accord Annual Art Exhibition - Call for Entries
As we come towards the end of the financial year, it feels like a good moment to look ahead. We’re starting to plan our training programme for the year ahead and want to make sure it reflects what you actually need. If there’s any training you’d like us to offer, or particular topics you’d find useful, please do let us know.
Your feedback will help shape what we prioritise: Training Needs 2026/2027 – Fill in form
Renfrewshire HSCP Health Improvement Team are hosting an in person event aimed at staff working in organisations across Renfrewshire who are interested in tobacco and vaping prevention work taking place both locally and nationally.
Date: Thursday 12th March
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Venue: Tweedie Hall, Linwood
This event will provide an opportunity to:
- Share updates on progress since our last stakeholder event in Feb 2023
- Highlight current information and available resources
- Support shared learning and discussion across tobacco and vaping work
- Gain insight into areas requiring further support and input
Further details, including speakers and a draft agenda, will be shared in due course. For now, we would be grateful if you could register your interest using this Tackling Tobacco & Vaping Together – Fill out form
If you have any questions, please contact alex.connor@nhs.scot or kwilkinson@engagerenfrewshire.com
Billy McClean
Chief Officer, Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership
I’m pleased to share my latest Vlog with you below. In this week’s Vlog, I talk about:
In this week’s Vlog, I talk about:
- Recent meetings about the important topics of business continuity and cyber security.
- Discussions around high-cost care packages.
- My regular thanks to staff for their great work. This week I mention some feedback for the two social work students who met with Angela Constance and John Trainer - as well as compliments for individuals in our social work, West Renfrewshire RES teams and Ward 39, as well as the SURE Fund.
If you have any feedback on this video or ideas for future topics, I’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch or email: HSCPcommunications@renfrewshire.gov.uk
I hope you enjoy this week’s update…
OSCR
To help smaller charities get their accounts right, we’re hosting a free webinar led by OSCR’s accounting experts. We’ll explain what to include (and what not to include) in your accounts, with clear examples tailored for small charities.
- Date: Tuesday 3 March 2026
- Time: 1pm-2pm
- Location: Online
- Sign up here
Join us 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 us answer as many questions as possible during the webinar.
Book your place now
Don't forget, the information we publish about charities on the Scottish Charity Register will be changing soon. The following changes are will come into force in early in 2026 (exact date to be announced soon):
- The first and last names of charity trustees will be displayed on the charity's register entry.
- Every accounts document submitted to OSCR as part of a charity's online annual return will be published in full, without any changes, on the Scottish Charity Register.
Please ensure you are prepared for these change by:
- Making sure your charity trustee details are up-to-date in OSCR Online.
- Carefully considering what information to include in your accounts before drafting them. Please remember, the documents will be published in full, as they are received, so you may want to consider if it is appropriate to include the names and images of volunteers or beneficiaries.
- Making sure your accounts can easily be displayed online, with a PDF document being the most preferable option.
- Considering adding digital or typed signatures, rather than handwritten.
SCVO's Scottish Charity Awards are back for 2026! Our prestigious awards celebrate the impactful work of Scotland’s voluntary sector. If your organisation, team, or an inspiring individual has made a difference over the past year, now is the time to shine.
Winning or being shortlisted for an award can raise your profile, attract new supporters, and gives well-deserved recognition to those driving change in communities across Scotland.
The awards are free to enter and there are multiple award categories to showcase your achievements. Every finalist will also be gifted two complimentary tickets to attend our celebratory awards ceremony on Thursday 11 June at the Radisson Blu, Glasgow.
Anti Stigma Session
On Thursday 26 February, 11am to 12pm, See Me and LGBT Health and Wellbeing will be working in partnership to launch the evaluation of the See Me proud programme.
This event will bring together professionals and organisations interested in learning more about the Community Champions model, with the session looking at the impact on champions, capacity building within communities, as well as the challenges and enablers to this approach.
This work pays particular attention to the overlapping stigmas created by systems like homophobia, biphobia and transphobia and mental ill health.
We will hear from workers from See Me, LGBT Health and Wellbeing and the Mental Health Foundation, as well as See Me Proud Champions about the partnership through presentations, the sharing of lived experience and breakout room discussion
This session is open to all but will be of particular use and interest to those looking to make changes within public, third and community sector organisations.
Thursday 26 February
Online, via Zoom
11am - 12pm
Register now
