Oxfordshire Children and Voluntary Youth Services is an independent charitable organisation that
supports voluntary and community organisations working with children and young people. We have a membership
of well over 50 charities working with our county’s children , young people and families.
We help these charities to become better at what they do, by offering support, guidance, and training and
representing the sector at a strategic level across the county. In turn, this helps us to create better
services for our children and young people, giving them the opportunity to learn and thrive, supporting
children and young people to have happy childhoods and improving their life chances.
We produce a monthly newsletter jam packed with the latest information about what’s happening in the
children and youth sector, which includes information about training events and courses, careers in the sector,
latest news in policy developments, funding opportunities and best practice across the sector. We also monitor
the effectiveness of voluntary sector provision across the county and support organisations to meet identified
needs.
We work strategically to ensure that the voluntary sector gets the recognition it deserves for delivering
outstanding services to children and young people.
Does your charity want to get involved with our work?
Free membership of OCVYS Until 31st March 2011, charities can access membership free.
Membership gives you:
- Access to all the organisations working in the sector across the county, to help you network and share resources
- Telephone and outreach support around managing your organisation
- Access to free training opportunities and a calendar of training events across the county
- A free, monthly newsletter full of useful resources to use with managing your youth and children’s work provisions
- Free email updates around policy and strategic work
- Representation of your organisation by OCVYS on strategic boards
- Access to our free training forums, or low cost training events for children and youth organisations
To join up fill in our survey click here.