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.

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. Reaching up to 10 million listeners every year, since 2001 we've worked with over 20,000 community partners connecting them with local people.

A great example is our Digital Switchover local volunteer programme which helps to ensure that no older or disabled people are left behind in the digital TV switch.

We also set up our own volunteering events to help tackle local issues and bring a local dimension to national BBC digital participation campaigns, including First Click and Go ON – Spring Online - two BBC campaigns specifically concerned with helping people to get on, and stay on, the internet.

We have also set up the Computer Buddies scheme, an inter-generational mentoring project funded by Nominet Trust, that helps older people get the most out of computers.

So you can see we do a great deal of great work across the UK! Just look for the blue markers on the CSV opportunities map for your local Action Desk.