Surrey Millennium Volunteers

From April 1st 2008 Surrey Millennium Volunteers is developing into an exciting new project and our new name will be ‘Surrey vinvolved’.

The Surrey vinvolved team will be working across the county with main bases in Reigate and Redhill YMCA, Woking YMCA and Guildford YMCA.

vinvolved is a national initiative funded by v, the youth volunteering charity, and teams are being launched in each local authority area. The teams comprise of Youth Volunteer Advisors and Youth Volunteer Development Managers and they have 3 main aims:

• To create new volunteering opportunities across all sectors through supporting, networking, training, capacity building, and sharing good practice to create a vibrant youth volunteering community.
• To broker young people into opportunities and support them to set up their own projects.
• To champion youth-led action through developing and facilitating Youth Action Teams.

Surrey vinvolved will be drawing on 9 years of Millennium Volunteer experience to create 8000 new opportunities, inspiring and engaging 8000 more 16 - 25 year olds into volunteering. This will benefit organisations, the communities and the environment of Surrey plus the young volunteers themselves.

We will shortly be launching a new website but if you would like more information in the meantime please phone 01737 784970 or visit www.wearev.com.