With financial pressures a major concern for many UK charities it is perhaps not surprising that some of the bigger ones are restructuring.
For those operating across national boundaries that has included decisions about their commitment to separate operations in Scotland. This has led to a kind of reverse devolution in the third sector, with charities considering managing their operations on a UK-wide basis even as the policy and politics landscape becomes more divergent.
RNIB Scotland formally concluded the transfer of its staff to London-based Action for Blind People earlier this month. This is still hugely controversial - the charity's chairwoman Sandra Wilson has loudly opposed the move, and I'm told many of RNIB's Scottish members are equally angry. Meanwhile Asthma UK plans to close its Scottish offices.
The argument against, is that this is precisely the wrong time to be considering such action. Independence may have been rejected at last year's referendum, but will charities miss out as Holyrood gets greater powers?
Andrew Horne believes so. The director of Addaction Scotland moved to reaffirm the drink and drug dependency charity's commitment to its Scottish operation recently.
The National Deaf Children's Society has also chosen a different path. It has just announced that its Scottish director Heather Gray is to take on responsibility for its work in Northern Ireland as well.
Ms Gray says NDCS is not immune to the financial pressures on the sector. Its vital work supporting families of deaf children and helping schools do better by deaf pupils is largely funded by trusts and foundations. Wherever the money comes from "it is not going up", she says.
But politics are different across the UK, she says. "We need to be in tune with that. It is great having a UK-wide organisation, but we have to fit with what is happening in Scotland and look at opportunities to collaborate. It is very difficult to keep up to date from a London HQ."
NDCS hopes to have influenced a forthcoming committee report on the attainment of pupils with sensory impairment, works closely with Scottish councils to promote sign language and is part of a Scottish Government network to support deaf children. With health devolved, it makes sense to have a Scottish operation to deal with issues such as deaf children's heightened risk of mental health problems.
Whether or not you perceive a hostility to the charity sector from the UK Government - and many do - the pressures on charities mean many more may have to decide how, and how much, they focus on their activities in Scotland.
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