About us 

We’re York Centre for Voluntary Service (known as York CVS), we’re an independent charity; supporting and championing York’s voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector to make positive change, challenge issues and grow new ideas for the future in order to strengthen communities.

York CVS works in four key areas:

1. As a membership body for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, we bring together, support and represent voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations that are active in York
2. We promote and celebrate volunteering
3. We reduce inequality through social action
4. We work alongside many other people and organisations to improve life in York.

Priorities for the five years 2021 to 2026 are to:

• support our members by providing information, advice, training, networking and representation
• promote volunteering of all kinds, from one-off opportunities to long-term links
• tackle the causes of poverty in York
• tackle loneliness and encourage a sense of community
• help people stay well and feel well.

To support our aims, we will:

• promote equality, diversity and opportunities for all, in everything we do
• reach out to people with direct, first-hand experience and together find the best ways to make a real and lasting difference: we will co-design, co-produce, co-deliver and empower.
• work in partnership: we can only deliver this plan by working closely with our members and with partners in the public and private sectors.