Community Volunteering Scheme
Community Volunteering Scheme –
Small Grants
The Community Volunteering Scheme (CVS) is a government funded grant programme designed to encourage and support volunteering by funding a wide range of volunteer-involving projects within voluntary and community groups. It is targeted specifically at projects that promote volunteering amongst people not in paid work and other groups who are currently under-represented in the volunteering population. The CVS Small Grants Programme makes small grants (of up to £1,000) available to small, locally based volunteer-involving organisations incorporating the above ethos.
CVS is funded by the Voluntary & Community Unit, part of the Department for Social Development. The scheme is administered by the Volunteer Development Agency but the Small Grants Programme is managed locally by Northern Ireland’s 15 volunteer centres.
Applications for this year have now closed. The next round of available funding is anticipated to be February 2009.
