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About 'V'
V is the first letter in volunteering. It's also the name of the independent charity championing youth volunteering in England.
V exists to inspire a new generation of young volunteers (aged 16-25) in England and enable a lasting change in the quality, quantity and diversity of youth volunteering.
Their aim is to create a culture where it is natural for young people to volunteer, and natural for organisations to support them in doing so, because the benefits of volunteering are widely understood and celebrated.
We hope youth volunteering will raise the profile of young people as being positive and active participants in their local communities, we want to embed a cultural change to involve young people more in the decision making processes of the agencies and third sector organisations in which they are placed. We want young people to become actively involved at every level of their chosen placement providers.
We believe that by encouraging more organisations to work with young volunteers, we can recognise young people as positive and productive members of our community and help break down this barrier. Young People need to be actively involved in their communities and they want to be put in positions of responsibility.
As from April 1st Voluntary Action Barnsley will be taking over from the highly successful Millennium Volunteers programme, previously run by BMBC. We hope to be able to achieve similar high standards of care for the young volunteers and of networking effectively across potential providers. We will be linking in with our colleagues at Volunteer Centre (hyperlink to subsection Adults of this page) to offer opportunities for people aged from sixteen years and upwards to infinity.
