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Welcome

Welcome to the Volunteer Network ( formally the Somerset Youth Volunteering Network), 
we thought you might be wondering who on earth we are and what is it that we do?
Well just to give you a brief explanation keep reading…

All About SYVN...

SYVN is a charity organisation based across Somerset, with our head office in Glastonbury.  It has been up and running since 1999, with many changes along the way to suit the needs of the young people we work with, our communities and ever changing lifestyles. We work with volunteers and organisations to help place suitable volunteers with great placements and vice versa. We support volunteers throughout their activities as well as putting on volunteering taster days for them. We run a number of projects with our main aim being to assist volunteers aged 16-25, although we do work with all age ranges. We work with a large number of organisations involved in all aspects of volunteering. We can also help young people obtain the well deserved accreditation, with the use of our v awards which range from a vThank You certificate right through to a vImpact award which acknowledges community benefits from a young person’s positive action.

 

Please browse through our website and enjoy your time here. If you would like any more in depth detail on anything we do, do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Registered charity number: 1096507

things we have done We have a national reputation for delivering innovative and effective project delivery such as:
2008
We became one of only 5 charities in the UK to be awarded  “Gold Star” status for our work with peer mentoring by the Home Office,

2009 to 2010 South West lead for V’s youth volunteer programmes

2008/2010 ran national pilots in e-mentoring and anti-bullying programmes in schools for different national charities.

2006 we were in the top 5% of Millennium Volunteer delivery partners.

2007 we co-wrote the national REACH quality framework adopted by V in 2008 as a national bench mark

Current staff from SYVN have given key note speeches at: the Houses of Parliament, the Treasury, the Lord Mayors Mansion (London), the Bank of England and Wembley Arena
We have also been invited 4 times to 10 Downing Street and spoken on behalf of the Home Office, Youth Action Network, Mentoring and Befriending Foundation and Number 10 Office on supporting young people, and presenting our work to 3 government committees.

Our programme to train young trustees for charities led to having 3 of them listed in “Who’s Who” for business, as nationally significant up and coming entrepreneurs who alongside a well established board of trustees and management team means that we have both a nationally proven track record in innovation and project delivery needs through non-traditional roots.