The CSV Vocal project enables adults with learning difficulties to learn new skills and become more independent via training and volunteering in their local communities.  It has the following aims:

o    To enable people to integrate into and contribute to their own community through volunteering.
o    To enable people to be the givers rather than the receivers of care.
o    To enable people to access training in order to develop skills to enable them to volunteer in their own communities and to become as independent as possible.
o    To reduce dependency on services specifically set up to support people with learning disabilities (including CSV).
o    To develop volunteering roles of genuine benefit to the local community.

Part of the national volunteering organisation, CSV (Community Service Volunteers), the Vocal Project was set up in Downham Market in 1989 and now has offices in Downham Market and King’s Lynn with volunteers busy in areas across West Norfolk, including Hunstanton, Swaffham, Fakenham, Wisbech and Methwold.
The project supports the volunteers with any needs they may have in order to volunteer successfully by matching them to “Support Volunteers”, who are also from the local community. This support can include transport to and from their placement or one-to-one support at the placement.
Volunteers with the CSV Vocal Project meet new people, learn new skills, become more independent, and take part in activities which are both of interest to themselves, and of genuine benefit to their local community.  We currently have volunteers at cafes, allotments, children’s nursery’s, conservation projects, befriending placements, charity shops and many more, including one social enterprise in King’s Lynn!

If your social enterprise is in need of a volunteer, or if you would like to learn more about what we do, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Charlie or Hannah on 01366 385839 or 01553 766953 respectively. Alternatively, email cstewart@csv.gov.uk or hscotten@csv.gov.uk .