Voluntary Community Service: Annual Report 2012/2013, Cardiff

Description

A Voluntary Community Service's (VCS) Annual Report 2012-13. It includes a report from Mary Newman MBE, VCS Chairman, messages from Jeremy Rees, VCS Manager, and Robert Davies, founder of VCS and Honorary President. There is also a financial report and VCS Survey from October 2012 to March 2013.

The report highlights VCS projects including: BIG Up - project to encourage volunteering by younger people, aged 16-25, who are not in education, employment or training; and GwirVol Youth Volunteering - another project to encourage volunteering by younger people.

Voluntary Community Service (VCS) was established in Cardiff in October 1964 with main aim, as stated in its constitution, to promote any charitable purposes, advancement of education, and relief of poverty, distress, and sickness in the City of Cardiff. Originally VCS co-ordinated a team of volunteers involved in activities such as helping elderly people with gardening and decorating, running summer ‘work camps’ for children and young people. Its mission today is to enable people who are most disadvantaged to engage with rewarding volunteering opportunities, facilitating their personal development and employment prospects.