West Lancashire Council for Voluntary Service

Supporting voluntary action empowering local communities

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West Lancashire Council for Voluntary Services is a charity, set up in 1973, and is the key umbrella group for voluntary and community groups in West Lancashire.

Our main activities are:

  • Providing information and support to voluntary organisations
  • Helping local people to set up and develop voluntary and community groups, and network with other organisations
  • Representing voluntary and community groups to statutory and other organisations, and partnerships

We are democratically accountable to the voluntary sector through a membership of over 200 groups. (To find out more about your group becoming a member of the CVS, please go to the Membership page).

 

A Council of Management is nominated and elected every year by the membership. To see the details of the current Council of Management, click here

 

Our registered charity number is 1039563. We are also a company limited by guarantee - registration no: 2940823.

 

Although we are an independent charity, we are belong to a national network of over 300 CVS across the UK, known as the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (see Links page)