Volunteer Centres NI – the volunteer centre portal

Hello!

Welcome to Volunteer Centres NI (VCNI),
we are a partnership of six independent Volunteer Centres
across Northern Ireland.

Our Centres About Us

Our Centres Across NI

Causeway Volunteer Centre, Craigavon & Banbridge Volunteer Bureau, Limavady Volunteer Centre, Mid Ulster Volunteer Centre, North West Volunteer Centre and Omagh Volunteer Centre.

Covid 19 showed the value of localised volunteer centres and having an accessible service for all. Centres share knowledge, skills, and resources in relation to volunteering as well as connecting and supporting local people to develop skills, knowledge, and confidence to support healthy, vibrant communities.

As independent Volunteer Centres, we are independently governed and aim to create a society where people feel included, inspired, and supported to make their unique contribution. Through VCNI strategic plan we aim to Build, Connect & Sustain Volunteering.

Visit our Volunteer Centres

Click on the links below to visit each of our centres across Northern Ireland

Our Vision

Empowering local people and local community and voluntary sector organisations.

Our Mission

Connecting and supporting local people develop their skills, knowledge, and confidence to support resilient, healthy, vibrant communities.

Our Values

Respectful Collaboration: To ensure that our volunteers and their communities can benefit from the experience, skills, knowledge, and resource of the collective.
Respectful Inclusion: We support those most marginalised find and achieve their volunteer pathway.
Radical kindness. We recognise and promote the legacy impact of nurturing an empathetic connection with and between our organisations, volunteers, and the local community.
Transparency. We will deliver our services in a clear and transparent manner to ensure that all relevant stakeholders understand our organisation and what we do.

Our Goals

Building capacity through the enhancement of person-centred skills, knowledge, and confidence.
Creating an individual personal volunteer experience through our pathway volunteer programme.
Supporting volunteer-based community organisations develop the necessary resilience to allow them to continue to deliver their essential work long into the future.