Our goal is to promote volunteering opportunities that have a positive impact on volunteers, charities and the community and we firmly believe that volunteering enriches lives, enhances local services and increases cohesion in the community.

Why the community needs us

Volunteering makes a significant and irreplaceable contribution to the local economy. Volunteering is an important expression of citizenship and can help build community cohesion. Volunteering is a mutual exchange, where the volunteer, organisation and community all benefit. We strive to eliminate barriers to volunteering and enable people facing disadvantage or discrimination to volunteer.

Our impact on the community

HVC has been in operation for almost 3 years and have engaged 2800 volunteers and have successfully placed almost 1000 volunteers into various front line organisations such as hospices, mental health charities, hospitals, libraries etc. Without HVC many charities could not operate with our help in engaging vital volunteers, volunteering also helps to break isolation and builds community cohesion. HVC has helped restore an unloved community garden and set up a friends of group run by volunteers