Regional CVSs and Covid-19

Photo by Shelley Pauls on Unsplash

Councils for Voluntary Service

“A Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) is a type of charity in England. CVSs are “the place at which local voluntary and community organisations speak to each other”. They offer a wide variety of services and support for local organisations, for example training, or advice on funding”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_Voluntary_Service

Each CVS in the various parts of the West Midlands has a link to information about the local response to the Covid19 pandemic.

Updates


Some of these pages are updated on a regular basis. Please check back regularly.

CVS on Twitter


Each CVS’s Twitter feed should give you their latest information.

Something missing?


Please let us know if we have missed an area or organisation by emailing me at paulineroche.news@gmail.com 

PlaceAgencyCOVID19 info Twitter
Birmingham Birmingham Voluntary Service Council https://www.bvsc.org/C19SupportBrum https://twitter.com/BVSC
Bromsgrove & RedditchBromsgrove and Redditch Network https://barn.org.uk/covid-19/https://twitter.com/BARNNetwork
Coventry Voluntary Action Coventry http://www.vacoventry.org.uk/https://twitter.com/VACoventry
DudleyDudley Council for Voluntary Service http://dudleycvsreview.org/covid-19-community-action-and-support/https://twitter.com/DudleyCVS
Herefordshire Community First (Herefordshire & Worcestershire)https://www.comfirst.org.uk/community_firstrsquos_response_to_coronavirushttps://twitter.com/comfirst
Malvern Hills Community Action Malvern & District https://www.communityaction.org.uk/stay-connected-help-line/https://twitter.com/CommunityActio1
Sandwell Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations https://www.scvo.info/covid-19/https://twitter.com/SCVOSandwell
Shropshire Shropshire Rural Community Council https://www.shropshire-rcc.org.uk/news/coronavirus-update/?hid=#-anchorhttps://twitter.com/Shropshire_RCC
Solihull Colebridge Trust & Enterprisehttps://colebridge.org/covid-19/latest-notice/https://twitter.com/colebridgetrust
Staffordshire Support Staffordshire (includes Cannock Chase, Lichfield and Tamworth) https://www.supportstaffordshire.org.uk/covid-19-supporthttps://twitter.com/supportstaffs
Stoke on TrentVoluntary Action Stoke On Trent (VAST) https://corona19.vast.org.uk/https://twitter.com/VASTstaffs
Stratford-on-Avon Voluntary Action Stratford-on-Avon District https://www.vasa.org.uk/corvid-19-update-27th-march/https://twitter.com/vasaorg
Telford & WrekinTelford & Wrekin CVShttps://www.telfordandwrekincvs.org.uk/update-covid-19-coronavirushttps://twitter.com/TelfordVolServe
Walsall One Walsallhttps://onewalsall.org/https://twitter.com/One_Walsall
Warwick & Warwickshire & SolihullWarwickshire Community and Voluntary Action https://www.wcava.org.uk/covid-19https://twitter.com/wcavaorg
Worcester & WorcestershireCommunity First (Herefordshire & Worcestershire) https://www.comfirst.org.uk/community_firstrsquos_response_to_coronavirus https://twitter.com/comfirst 
Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council http://www.wolverhamptonvsc.org.uk/covid19/https://twitter.com/WolvesVSC

Mapping charities in the West Midlands

The map shows all 13,653 charities that were registered with the Charity Commission in September 2016, and had registered with a postcode that falls within the West Midlands.

The layers tab on the right allows for filtering by category of activity (proportional by income), the search function on the left searches by charity name.

The layers are ordered by frequency of type (with 82 umbrella bodies and 2383 religious orgs).

James Bowles made this map following a suggestion by Pauline Roche from RnR Organisation.

Pauline recognised how useful such a map would be, not only for all the charities on the map, but also for existing and potential funders, including individuals who might want to support a charity in their area.

James posted details of how he made the map here