Social Action and Community Media

The CSV Action Network

The CSV Action network can help you to get involved in volunteering or find volunteers for a local project.

The Action Network is a groundbreaking partnership with BBC English Regions. Our Community Outreach Managers work across 36 BBC local radio stations, inspiring local people to get active in the community. Click through to the map to find your local branch.

The CSV Action Network can help you recruit volunteers, promote a local campaign or appeal, offer a local perspective to a national issue, or raise awareness where it matters. Since 2001 we’ve worked with over 20,000 community partners connecting them with local people - BBC local radio reaches up to 10million listeners every year.

We also set up our own volunteering events to help tackle local issues and bring a local dimension to national BBC campaigns.

CSV Community and Read Hear on BBC Ceefax

As part of our partnership with the BBC, we run the CSV Community and Read Hear pages on BBC2’s Ceefax Service.

The CSV Community Pages cover the issues that matter to local communities, from updates on disability and charity news to in-depth features and calls for volunteers. The pages are read by an around 110,000 people a week. So if you’re campaigning on an issue, raising funds, looking for volunteers or just want to get your voice heard, we can help!

Email Catherine Cooper at ccooper@csv.org.uk or fax your story to us on 020 7833 5689.

BBC Read Hear is the teletext magazine for deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. Providing details of the latest relevant news, entertainment, jobs and courses, these pages attract a wide and avid range of readers. Read Hear also acts as a platform for the deaf and hard of hearing to air their views on the latest issues within the deaf community.

If you have any news or issues affecting the Deaf community you can email us at readhear@csv.org.uk, fax us on 020 7833 5689, text your story to 07546 568 037 or write to us at 237 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NJ.