Voluntary Action Maidstone (VAM) mission is: *To promote volunteers and volunteering and to develop services in response to local needs. *To support, strengthen and develop the capacity of voluntary and community organisations in Maidstone. Its core activities are a Volunteer Centre providing a brokerage service for people wanting to volunteer and those organizations requiring volunteers. It's also a Council for Voluntary Service and provides support, advice and capacity building.

We work effectively with voluntary, community & statutory organisations & represent the voluntary sector within Maidstone. Several projects have been developed through a need identified by the community providing services for older people, people with mental health problems, those with a disability on low incomes, carers providing care in the community, people recovering from substance misuse and those rehabilitating in the community after a prison sentence or youth offending service.

Our VC is accredited by Volunteering England and supported 541 volunteers last year. The CVS has gained NAVCA Accreditation, it held 101 individual advice sessions, 214 CRB checks and provided a range of training events and forums during 2011. VAM currently manages the following projects; Platform, Gateway, Maidstone & Malling Carers, Transport, Kent Event Team, V Team & Brighter Futures. The last two projects have received the Queens Award for Volunteering which is the equivalent of an MBE.