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Islington VCS Organisations Directory – URGENT UPDATE

Islington’s directory of voluntary and community organisations is developed in partnership with Islington Council and maintained by Voluntary Action Islington. Being part of the directory gives your organisation the best chance of being found by people/organisations who need your support or volunteers who would like to help out in Islington!...

Volunteering Opportunities at Christmas

  1. WhiteChapel Mission: Kitchen Assistant Throughout Christmas, 6am-11am Help the homeless at the WhiteChapel Mission by preparing and serving meals in the day centre. Contact the office on 03000 111 400. More info here. 2. HOST UK: Student Hosts for Christmas Evening 24th December – 27th December morning/afternoon Give...

Capacity Building Essentials Project

The Capacity Building Essentials project is a new project which will work with 15 small Islington voluntary and community organisations who require support with developing their organisation’s effectiveness and sustainability. The project offers help with Business Planning, Financial Management, Publicity & Promotion, Fundraising, Monitoring and Evaluation. The programme will be...

Oslo Red Cross Members visited Voluntary Action Islington

    Oslo Red Cross members came to us and other organisations in London to learn more about our methods of recruiting and managing volunteers. Oslo Red Cross assists groups in need in the city of Oslo. They focus their relief work within the fields of migration, caring for elderly...

Launch of Newsletter for Volunteer Centre

The first issue of the Volunteer Centre Islington newsletter from VAI is out now! Our aim is to send this out monthly to help and promote volunteering in Islington, as well as inform you about the latest events in the volunteering sector. We hope you find the newsletter interesting. If...

Islington supplementary school received NRCSE Bronze Awards

The celebration of supplementary school achievement organised by the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE) with the Museum of London on Tuesday 7th July was successfully held. Tom Kasapis from Arachne, Meltem Atma and Seyret from Turkish and Kurdish Children’s Group received their well deserved Bronze Awards at the...

Watch out for our new Voluntary Action Academy video guides on Youtube

VAA signing up as a new learner:  This is a short video about how to sign up as a new learner on our Voluntary Action Academy website and it provides all the information required to register with us and to create your own account http://ow.ly/I0x1s  VAA Browsing the website and...

Are you interested in being a Trustee of a local Nursery or Charity in Islington?

If so then: Come along on Tuesday 14th October 2014 for one hour briefing session 8.30am to 9.30am to get more information and discuss the local opportunities. For more information, please click here....

2nd Children’s Project Survey now available!

Voluntary Action Islington is running its 2nd Survey about the Children’s Project that we are delivering with Children England. We would like all those who made use of the service to please complete this survey as your input and contributions will be very important in helping to shape the future...

Team London 2014 Achievement Awards

The nomination period for the third Team London Achievement Awards is now open. The Mayor of London will once again give well deserved recognition to London volunteers and their contribution to the community and spirit of the capital city. The Awards are a chance to celebrate not only the excellence...