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Helen Oparinde, Development Officer in VAL’s Voluntary Sector Support team, celebrates Student Volunteering week and considers how young people can strengthen our local VCSE sector.

Read how VAL's Sector Support Team helped the organisation to become a CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation).

On 8 February 2021 the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government published the Decent Homes Standard: review guidance.

On 8 February 2021 the Department of Health and Social Care and The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP published a speech that was delivered at the Downing Street coronavirus briefing.

A number of webinars are being delivered by the LLEP growth hub. 

In 2018 NCVO, ACEVO and Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales launched a project to address competition and collaboration between voluntary organisations and social enterprises of different sizes around the delivery of services of all kinds to the public.

Ovacome is the national ovarian cancer support charity

On 4 February the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport included a new section on volunteers eligible for vaccines.

The call for evidence ends on 19 February 2021.