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OUR VISION
Building strong communities through volunteering.
OUR MISSION
Enabling people to offer their skills and time to build stronger, more active communities.
OUR VALUES
Excellence and Creativity – We strive for excellence and creativity in all that we do, recognising that each person’s contribution is valuable.
Collaboration and teamwork – We value working with others, building and maintaining effective partnerships.
Respect and Inclusion – We celebrate diversity and promote inclusion to build a culture based on due regard for others.
Beneficiaries and Safeguarding – We focus on the achievement of positive outcomes for everyone involved in volunteering and apply recognised safeguarding principles to our work.
Click here to read our Strategic Plan 2020-2025.
Latest News
Humans of Volunteer Now
10 June 2021
We have a new section on our website, inspired by the Humans of New York, spotlighting experiences of Volunteer Now’s Events Team volunteers. Check it out here – Humans of Volunteer Now.
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An Open Letter to Senior Managers & Boards in All Sectors
7 June 2021
An Open Letter to Senior Managers & Boards of Volunteer Involving & Deploying Organisations in all Sectors The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been significant. Yet amongst all the gloom of the last year, volunteers have been a source of hope and optimism, supporting the most vulnerable in our society in a myriad of […]
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New funding opportunity – Small Capital Grants Programme
3 June 2021
On behalf of the Department for Communities (DfC), Co-operation Ireland announces the opening of the 2021/22 Small Capital Grants Programme for Northern Ireland. The Programme, which has a total fund of £950,000, is aimed at assisting voluntary and community organisations purchase items of equipment to enhance and sustain the activities and services they provide to […]
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Voluntary Action Responses to the Pandemic
2 June 2021
Volunteer Now have been working in partnership with the Mobilising Voluntary Action Research Group on a 4-nation comparative study, investigating the voluntary action responses to the pandemic. The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Feel free to visit the project website (see below) to meet the excellent team and find […]
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