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• Volunteer Centre Achievers Club

  Walsall Volunteer Centre West Berkshire Volunteer Centre West Lancashire Volunteer Plymouth Volunteering Kirklees Warrington Voluntary Action Warwickshire Community and Voluntary Action...

• Volunteering and benefits

  volunteer. However, there are some rules that you need to be aware of to make sure that your volunteering doesn’t have an impact on the benefits you receive. This guidance aims to help you start...

• NCVO and Volunteering England merger talks

  Volunteering England and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations are commencing formal discussions with a view to merging. The Board of Trustees of both organisations have agreed the...

• THE ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON CHARITIES AND VOLUNTEERING: VOLUNTEERING IN PUBLIC SERVICES

  need to surround people with networks that help them to succeed. We don’t use the language ‘volunteering’ but that is essentially what this is. We have seen instances of institutions working with...

• NCVO’s General Election 2017 Manifesto: How it can be achieved

  much more to their communities, by: getting more employers to allow time off work for volunteering , including time off for charity trustees providing a support fund to address barriers to...

• Volunteering

  We are committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering in all its diversity. Volunteering is someone spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or...

• Thirty ambassadors chosen to mark thirtieth anniversary of Volunteers’ Week

  volunteer, a special constable and a teen peer mentor. Justin Davis Smith, director of volunteering at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, which coordinates Volunteers’ Week in...

• Volunteering development team

  Shaun Delaney, Volunteering development manager Shaun looks at NCVO’s strategy for volunteer management and good practice. This includes the information and resources provided through NCVO Knowhow...

• Volunteering England trustees named for NCVO merger

  Volunteering England and NCVO have today announced the names of the trustees from Volunteering England who will join the board of NCVO as part of the organisations’ proposed merger. Two...

• Justin Davis Smith joins Cass Business School as new senior research fellow

  (Cass CCE) has appointed Justin Davis Smith as a new senior research fellow with a focus on volunteering research and teaching. Justin Davis Smith joins from NCVO where he was executive director of...

• Justin Davis Smith announced as NCVO executive director for volunteering

  Volunteering England chief executive, Justin Davis Smith, will lead NCVO’s new volunteering directorate under the organisation's merger proposals, NCVO announced today. As executive director for...

• Research

  NCVO UK Civil Society Almanac – statistics on volunteering Getting Involved – an overview of the different ways that people get involved in society using key trends, facts and statistics...

• Volunteer Centres

  known as volunteer bureaux or volunteer development agencies) promoting and enabling volunteering and community involvement. NCVO has worked with Volunteer Centres to develop the Volunteer Centre...

• Volunteers' Week 2018: Championing volunteering for all

  the contribution volunteers make to our communities every day. This year’s theme is ‘volunteering for all’ – a celebration of the many different ways people can give their time. From trustees or...

• Free NCVO membership extended as merger with Volunteering England is confirmed

  The merger between NCVO and Volunteering England was finalised today, with the organisations set to formally come together on 1 January 2013. Volunteering England’s 1,800 members will become NCVO...

• NCVO and the CIPD launch joint research calling for companies to collaborate with charities and make successful corporate volunteering a reality

  65% of workers would choose employers that support volunteering, but businesses and charities aren’t working together The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and the CIPD, the...

• Institute for Volunteering Research

  In September 2019 the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) moved to the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences on campus. Visit the IVR website at UEA Read...

• Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation

  has been achieved by over 90% of Volunteer Centres. It is central to NCVO’s strategy for volunteering. VCQA was originally designed by practitioners working in what was the National Association of...

• Volunteer centres see substantial drops in income

  programmes supporting infrastructure organisations - A third (33%) of enquiries about volunteering opportunities were from people who were unemployed and seeking work. Commenting, Justin Davis...

• Public sector volunteers less satisfied

  Overall picture positive but research reveals areas for improvement to allow public sector volunteering programmes to fulfil their potential, says NCVO People giving their time to public services,...