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About Hackney CVS

nathan and one of our members at reception

Hackney CVS is Hackney's leading voluntary and community sector support agency and your local Council for Voluntary Service or CVS.

We provide hundreds of people to run successful voluntary and community sector organisations by giving them access to the key skills, knowledge and resources to respond to the needs of local people, especially those most in need.

What we do: Our services

Click on the box below for more information on each of our services.

Consortia work
Supporting you to form consortia or partnerships to bid for funding and contracts

Communications
Publicising what you do and keeping news flowing between you, funders and partners

Organisation and Workforce Development
Giving you the skills and tools to improve your organisation

Grants, fundraising and philanthropy
Taking a lead on bringing funding into the borough

Assets for the sector
Helping you find office or meeting space

Community Empowerment Network
Helping you influence local services and policy

Policy and leadership

Compact
Negotiating and mediating between the VCS and public sector

Health information for refugees
Helping improve how refugee communities access health services

Some key facts:

  • Our annual turnover is £2.8m
  • We have 17 staff
  • Our Exec Committee has eight members (3 BME, 3 women - many of whom are senior staff or directors of local VCS organisations)
  • As leads in developing a Hackney COMPACT, we recently won a COMPACT excellence award.

East London CVS logo   Hackney CVS is a member of East London CVS Network:   http://www.elcvsnetwork.org.uk
navca logo  

Hackney CVS is a member of NAVCA – the national body for voluntary sector infrastructure organisations.  http://www.navca.org.uk/