Services available at our Volunteer Centres

Every Volunteer Centre has six core functions through which it provides support for individual volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations.

• Brokerage (i.e. matching interest in volunteering with appropriate opportunities)

• Marketing Volunteering (encourage local interest through promotional events and activities)

• Good Practice Development (research, training, support networks, partnership working and external quality accreditation)

• Development of Volunteering Opportunities (by working in close partnership with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies)

• Policy Response & Campaigning (identify policy proposals or legislation that may impact on volunteering and ensure VCS engagement and input).

• Strategic Development of Volunteering (as the local experts on volunteering we inform strategic thinking and planning at local, sub-regional, regional and indeed national level).