Retired and Senior Volunteering

Over 50? Want to give something back to your local community?

Your skills, knowledge and life and experience are a valuable resource. At CSV we can help you share them with your local community. You could join over 15,000 volunteers on our Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme (RSVP). There is no upper age limit and no-one is rejected. Disability is not a barrier.

To find your local group, click through to the map and look for the orange pins. Alternatively, take a look at the CSV RSVP website for more details about our projects.

RSVP is unique. Projects are organised and led by volunteers so there are no limits; opportunities with RSVP are as diverse as the volunteers themselves. If you have the passion, energy and enthusiasm, you can make things happen in your community. The only limit is your imagination!

Across the UK, retired and senior volunteers drive older patients to hospital appointments, read and share skills with school children, knit teddies and blankets for children who've suffered trauma, research and record local history, befriend isolated older people and much, much more besides.

Take Stan Pitt for example. Along with his wife, Yvonne, he's been a professional dance teacher for nearly 10 years. Every Wednesday, Stan and Yvonne run a tea dance for older people in Coventry. To find out what it means to Stan, Yvonne and the dancers, watch the video below...