Volunteering England(VE) is the national volunteering development agency for England, committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering in all its diversity.

Our work links research, policy, innovation, good practice and grant-making in the involvement of volunteers. Our members and partners range from national charities to voluntary agencies across the length and breadth of England; from NHS Trusts to arts organisations; from local community projects to government think-tanks.

Volunteering England is at the centre – bringing ideas and people together, developing better networks and structures, and initiating projects to support volunteering in a wide range of fields, such as health and social care, sport and employer supported volunteering.

Volunteering England was formed in April 2004 following a merger between The Consortium on Opportunities for Volunteering, The National Centre for Volunteering and Volunteer Development England.

Key activities:  undertaken by Volunteering England include:

• Working to secure and support an England-wide network of quality volunteer development agencies, promoting and enabling volunteering and community involvement;
• Undertaking research, policy and development activity;
• Providing grants, support and advice to sustain and develop volunteering.
• Keeping volunteering high on the policy agenda, working with government to promote opportunities for, and remove institutional barriers to, volunteering;
• Providing authoritative, up-to-date research on volunteering issues;
• Supporting volunteering development through:
  - Promoting accredited quality frameworks for volunteering management and local volunteer development agencies;

Further information can be found at :www.volunteering.org.uk