County Voluntary Council

Every county in Wales has a voluntary sector infrastructure body,[1] generically called a County Voluntary Council or CVC.[2][3] The key role of a CVC is to provide advice and information to local voluntary and community groups on volunteering, funding sources and a wide range of other issues.

At an all Wales national level the sector's infrastructure body is Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA). The 19 local County Voluntary Councils in Wales, and the national support body WCVA, make up a network of support organisations for the third sector in Wales called Third Sector Support Wales.[4]

In England the term Council for Voluntary Service is used rather than CVC.

List of CVCs in Wales

List of CVCs as advised by Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) [5]

County	CVC Name
Flintshire	Flintshire Local Voluntary Council
Wrexham	Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham
Bridgend	Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations
Cardiff	Cardiff Third Sector Council
Carmarthenshire	Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services
Ceredigion	Ceredigion Association of Voluntary Organisations
Conwy	Community and Voluntary Support Conwy
Denbighshire	Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council
Glamorgan	Glamorgan Voluntary Services (Vale of Glamorgan)
Gwent	Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations
Rhondda Cynon Taff	Interlink (Rhondda Cynon Taff)
Gwynedd	Mantell Gwynedd
Anglesey	Medrwn Mon (Isle of Anglesey)
Neath Port Talbot	Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary Services
Pembrokeshire	Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services
Powys	Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations
Swansea	Swansea Council for Voluntary Service
Torfaen	Torfaen Voluntary Alliance
Merthyr Tydfil	Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil

Notes and references

1. "County Voluntary Councils". www.wcva.org.uk. Archived from the original on 25 July 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
2. Sustainable Funding Cymru "County voluntary councils - Sustainable funding". Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
3. Welshpedia http://www.welshpedia.co.uk/wiki/wales/index.php?title=Wales_Council_for_Voluntary_Action Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Third Sector Support Wales". www.wcva.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
5. "Third Sector Support Wales". www.wcva.org.uk. Archived from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2018.