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Southampton Volunteer Alliance

Welcome to the Southampton Volunteer Alliance Web Portal in association with Southampton Connect. This is intended to be a simple starting point for any organisation in the city – regardless of your sector – to begin to make the most of volunteering to help your organisation and our city.

We've listed useful links to further information under sector based headings below to help get you started but if you have any further questions please feel free to contact the city’s volunteer centre:

Volunteering Development Team
Southampton Voluntary Services (SVS)
02380 216002
volunteer@southamptonvs.org.uk

For more general enquiries please call SVS on 023 8022 8291 or email information@southamptonvs.org.uk

Community and Voluntary Sector Information

Find volunteers through SVS's Volunteer Centre – click here

Build your capacity to manage volunteers – click here

Solent Skills Development Zone – click here

For more general information on volunteering – click here

Information for Businesses

Support from Business Solent to Solent Champions - click here

Shared opportunities for small to medium sized businesses – click here

Support from Business in the Community is available for medium to larger sized businesses on responsible business practice – click here

Finding volunteering opportunities through Southampton Voluntary Services (SVS) – click here

Solent Skills Development Zone – click here

For Information on local volunteering and responsible business best practice – click here

Public Sector Information

Recruiting and managing volunteers through SVS's Volunteer Centre – click here

Solent Skills Development Zone - click here

Southampton’s Big Society Agenda - click here

The Big Society agenda in relation to the Southampton City Council (SCC) Plan - click here

SCC report on national and local Big Society related initiatives - click here

For more general information – click here

Thank you for your interest in volunteering in Southampton. We hope you found this page a useful starting point and would be interested in your feedback. Please click here to comment on this service.