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Access to Volunteering 

Access to Volunteering is a £2 million pilot programme and was launched in September 2009. The programme provides funding to organisations to support the additional costs associated with involving disabled people in volunteering.  The programme was created in response to the Commission on the Future of Volunteering, “Manifesto for Change”, report in 2008.

The pilot will run in three areas – London, the West Midlands and the North West and is delivered by a consortium of Digital Public, Charities Aid Foundation and the RNIB. 

The outcomes for the fund are:

• To remove barriers to volunteering for disabled people
• To increase the number of disabled people volunteering in the pilot areas
• To increase the range of organisations providing volunteering opportunities for disabled people, and
• To provide evidence of any additional costs associated with disabled people volunteering.

There will be five grant application rounds between September 2009 – March 2011.

Further details can be found at www.accesstovolunteering.org.
Email: enquiries@accesstovolunteering.org.
Telephone: 03000 123 346.