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Volunteer Centre

Swansea Volunteer Centre can provide you with all the support you need to start volunteering. We can offer you one to one advice and guidance appointment, telephone assistance or help you access Swansea volunteering information via Volunteering Wales website. We can also help organisations looking for volunteers. Read more

Swansea Community Farm – Finances & Resources Officer

Swansea Community Farm provides farm based volunteering, training and play activities to increase wellbeing and enable disadvantaged children, young people and adults to thrive!Read more

SYSHP – Support Assistant (Maternity Cover)

SYSHP is a homeless charity based in Swansea, which has been delivering services to vulnerable socially excluded and potentially homeless young people for over 20 years.Read more

Swansea Community Workshops seek Chairperson

Swansea Community Workshops is a registered charity and community where people can come together to socialise and share workshop resources.Read more

Volcano - Storyopolis Producer

Swansea’s unique and much-loved children’s literacy project is recruiting!Read more

Mynydd Y Gwair Community Fund

The Mynydd y Gwair Local Community Fund provides grants to organisations providing services, facilities or activities that benefit the communities within the area of benefit for the Mynydd y Gwair Local Community Fund.Read more

Community Lives Consortium seek Trustees

Community Lives Consortium (CLC) are a non-profit making organisation that supports disabled people to live the lives that they choose in in South West Wales.Read more

Advocacy Support Cymru (ASC) seek Trustees

Advocacy Support Cymru (ASC) is a registered charity that specialises in the provision of professional, confidential and independent advocacy for those eligible in secondary care and community mental health settings.Read more

Communities For Horses

Communities For Horses is a registered charity that was set up in July 2017 to provide educational opportunities and outreach to the local community and thereby address the cause of equine welfare issues at the roots.Read more

A Better Welcome to Swansea

The ‘Better Welcome to Swansea’ project is a mentoring scheme that supports people seeking sanctuary (primarily newly-arrived asylum seekers), to feel welcome. The aim of the scheme is to promote integration between asylum seekers or refugees and the local Swansea community.Read more

HWB Surviving the Summer Holidays

Here you'll find a 2 week meal plan based on a family of 4 at £25 per week! To accompany this, we have included a shopping list and recipes to give you meal ideas for the 6 week summer holidays!Read more

Mental Health Support

Mental Health SupportRead more

BME Skills Project

Harnessing the skills of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) professionals to benefit BME community groups and organisations across Wales.Read more

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Swansea Community Farm – Finances & Resources Officer

Swansea Community Farm provides farm based volunteering, training and play activities to increase wellbeing and enable disadvantaged children, young people and adults to thrive!

SYSHP – Support Assistant (Maternity Cover)

SYSHP is a homeless charity based in Swansea, which has been delivering services to vulnerable socially excluded and potentially homeless young people for over 20 years.

National Trust Lavender at Rhossili

Can you imagine the pleasure of spending a couple of hours in a field full of lavender, taking in the scent , listening to the bees buzz around and the distance rumble of the waves from Fall Bay at Rhossili. If this appeals to you please read on.

Swansea Community Workshops seek Chairperson

Swansea Community Workshops is a registered charity and community where people can come together to socialise and share workshop resources.

Volunteer Centre

Mental Health and Wellbeing Volunteering Project

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Volunteer Project, funded by ABMU and managed by SCVS, is a social support Project for people with mental ill health.

Staff

Swansea Council for Voluntary Service currently employs over 30 staff, based at our office on Walter Road, Swansea. For the main contact details for SCVS, use the Contact Us button, or you can contact a member of staff directly below.

Involve

Involve has a variety of schemes that engage people in need in Swansea. Involve recruit, train and support volunteers to be in a befriending/ Independent visitor role on a one to one or in a group setting to meet the needs of individual children, young people, families, adults with various needs or older people.

HWB Abertawe

HWB (Health&Well Being) Abertawe is a project offering practical support and advice about healthy eating to people who may never have cooked for themselves or their families, who have little or no knowledge of the nutritional value of food and who would benefit from raising their awareness of how to increase their physical activity levels.

Mental Health Development Service

The Mental Health Development Service at SCVS facilitates joint working between voluntary organisations and statutory organisations. The service enables voluntary organisations to have their views taken into account when decisions are made regarding the planning and delivery of mental health services across the ABMU health board. The development service also supports and facilitates the local voluntary sector Mental Health Forum and provides mental health related information and resources.

Swansea Youth Bank

Swansea Youth Bank is a youth led, grant giving panel of volunteers that provides grants to groups of young people to develop and run their own community projects across the City and County of Swansea.

Transcend

Transcend is a mental health peer mentoring project that is funded by ABMU Health Board. It provides volunteering opportunities for individuals with lived experience of mental health problems

About us

Swansea Council for Voluntary Service is the umbrella organisation for voluntary activity throughout the City & County of Swansea, supporting, developing and representing voluntary organisations, volunteers and communities in the County. We work to support and develop the Third Sector by providing a wide range of information, advice and support services and by representing the views of the sector to government and policy makers...

Volunteering for under 25's

Information for young people under 25 who are interested in volunteering.

Support for Organisations

We work to support and develop the Third Sector by providing a wide range of information, advice and support services and by representing the views of the sector to government and policy makers. Read more