Site last updated:
August 2009

Volunteering Lancashire is a non-profit organisation working to enhance and promote volunteering throughout the county. Its membership is drawn from Volunteering Infrastructure agencies. It provides a comprehensive signposting for those interested in volunteering. It also provides support for volunteer-involving organisations through resource materials, information, training and events.

The group formed in 2005 initially to provide a county-level response to new voluntary, community and faith sector initiatives such as ChangeUp. The strong and diverse tradition of voluntary work in Lancashire is reflected in the organisation’s membership of Volunteer Centres and other agencies who seek to reflect the widest representation of volunteering issues.

As part of the Lancashire Community Voluntary & Faith Sector Consortium, the Volunteering Lancashire Sub-Group were able to benefit from funding via ChangeUp to establish itself in 2006 as a central focus for volunteering issues throughout Lancashire. The initial Terms of Reference can be found here.

From its official launch in June 2006, the group aims to become a dynamic forum within the Lancashire voluntary sector, with an independent constitution and wider membership. The objects of the constitution are as follows:

"The objects of the Constitution are to promote the charitable work of principal providers of volunteering support and development services within Lancashire for the benefit of the community by the promotion of voluntary service in the advancement of education, the protection of health, the relief of poverty, distress and sickness and the support of any other charitable purpose."