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Organisations that can assist and advise on recruiting and supporting volunteers.

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BVSC Volunteer Centre
www.bvsc.org/volunteer
BVSC supports voluntary action in the City of Birmingham, providing information, advice and guidance to voluntary and community organisations; promoting volunteering by helping individuals to find suitable voluntary work and helping organisations to find volunteers.

Community Organisers
www.cocollaborative.org.uk
The Community Organisers programme will create a new home-grown movement of community organising for the 21st century, emerging directly from the strengths, concerns and hopes of all kinds of neighbourhoods across England.

Global Exchange
www.globalxchange.org.uk
Global Xchange supports partners in the UK and across the world to set up international networks of youth volunteers who work, live and learn together. Global Xchange’s success is due to the model of putting young people at the centre of efforts to combat poverty and inequality, by giving them a chance to join other young people to work on important projects in developing countries.

My Community Starter
www.communitytoolkit.co.uk
My Community Starter is a free online resource for people who want to get involved in organising smaller, more straightforward community activities. The developers looked at the barriers that stood in your way to volunteering in your local community and created a website that could give you some guidance, inspire you and, most importantly, provide you with some information you may need to get started.

TimeBank
www.timebank.org.uk
TimeBank is a national charity inspiring and connecting a new generation of people to volunteer in their communities, and enabling charitable organisations and businesses to develop innovative and effective volunteer recruitment programmes.

Volunteering England
www.volunteering.org.uk
Volunteering England works to support and increase the quality, quantity, impact and accessibility of volunteering throughout England.

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Volunteer Services Overseas
www.vso.org.uk/volunteering
VSO was founded in the UK in 1958, and now welcome volunteers from an ever-increasing range of countries and backgrounds. Their national partners recruit volunteers from many different countries worldwide and this international approach allows VSO to combine and learn from a rich variety of perspectives.