Volunteering England promotes volunteering as a powerful force for change, both for those who volunteer and for the wider community. It understands the term volunteering to include formal activity undertaken through public, private and voluntary organisations as well as informal community participation.
www.volunteering.org.uk
The England Volunteering Development Council is a high-level representative mechanism for volunteering. The council engages both with government and opposition parties in order to capture the collective intelligence of volunteer-involving organisations,volunteering infrastructure providers and of volunteers to provide a powerful, coordinated lobby to steer government policy and community action.
www.volunteering.org.uk/evdc
