The Centre For VolunteeringRegistered

The Centre for Volunteering (The Centre) is the peak body in NSW promoting and supporting volunteering and community participation through leadership and experience in delivering services in NSW and throughout Australia, thus connecting people and organisations in order to enrich the community. The Centre for Volunteering includes Volunteering NSW, a statewide volunteer referral service, and the National School of Volunteer Management (NSVM), a registered training organisation providing professional development and nationally accredited volunteering qualifications The Centre for Volunteering is a notforprofit organisation with over 50 years history. The Centre has a lead role in advocacy, volunteering support services and sector development. The Centre works for volunteers and volunteerinvolving organisations, to enhance volunteering, to benefit individual volunteers, and to build strong resilient connected communities through volunteering. The Centre advocates for volunteering organisations and the more than 4.3 million volunteers in NSW and provides services for its members, Volunteer Managers and Volunteer Involving Organisations across the state. Members are mainly notforprofit organisations, large and small, across all sectors. The Centre also works with government and corporate organisations on Corporate Social Responsibility and employee volunteering programs. The Centre reaches thousands of individuals and organisations involved in the volunteering sector through our recognition program and traditional communication channels. The Centre operates as a nonprofit corporation for the development of public interest in the volunteer sector, including raising awareness of issues directly impacting the sector; it works to sustain and grow a strong volunteer base and community service for the relief of distress, illness, poverty, delinquency and helplessness by providing volunteers and advice; it operates to assist: youth; disadvantaged persons; health and welfare agencies; hospitals and public institutions; educational and recreational agencies; justice and rehabilitation; other areas of volunteer service. The Centre works to encourage voluntary citizen participation in health, welfare, recreation, educational, cultural and civic programs by promoting volunteering opportunities and making volunteers aware of their rights and responsibilities, and provides a central resource centre and units for recruitment, registration, training and management, networking, referral and placement of volunteers in such programs. We deliver education and training to encourage community services to use volunteers and encourage community services to maintain high standards in the use of volunteers.