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• Volunteer Centre Achievers Club

  All Volunteer Centres who achieve the Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation Standard become members of the Achievers Club. Members Amber Valley CVS Bassetlaw Community and Voluntary Service (BCVS)...

• New research examines volunteering policy response in England during the pandemic

  Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) examines the government’s policy response to volunteering in England, and its impact, during the covid-19 pandemic. The briefing presents findings from...

• 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...

• 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...

• Volunteers’ Week 2021: A time to say thanks to all volunteers during the pandemic

  around the UK are encouraging everyone to use it as ‘a time to say thanks’ to all those volunteering during the coronavirus pandemic. A time to say thanks after a difficult year The theme of this...

• 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...

• Strategic volunteering consultancy

  In need of a volunteering reboot? The impact of covid-19, improvements in technology and changes in society have all made organisations think differently about how to harness the power of...

• NCVO and Centre for Ageing Better partner to increase age-friendly inclusive volunteering in England

  with the Centre for Ageing Better to support its efforts to increase age-friendly inclusive volunteering in England. NCVO will do this through the delivery of training and the creation of an action...

• Latest research reveals mixed impact of pandemic on volunteering numbers despite more positive outlook, increased diversity and rise of the digital volunteer

  charities. However, in the past month 20% of organisations said they expected an increase in volunteering, with 19% expecting a decrease. This is the first time more have expected an increase and...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation

  across the Volunteer Centre Network and a formal evaluation carried out by the Institute for Volunteering Research . The Standard covers the five core functions of a Volunteer Centre’s work :...

• 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...

• Time well spent: A national survey on the volunteering experience

  Time Well Spent is a major new report into the volunteering experience published by NCVO in January 2019. It is the result of a national survey carried out through YouGov's panel (10,000+...