The UK's leading volunteering and training charity.
The skills, knowledge and life and experience of Britain's over 50's 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.
If you would like to set up your own retired and senior volunteering project or become an RSVP volunteer organiser, get in touch through our national and regional offices.
Our headquarters are in London, and you can email Shahina Bibi at rsvpinfo@csv.org.uk, or call her on 020 7643 1385.
We also have a number of offices all over the UK - which one's nearest you?
| National Offices for Retired and Senior Volunteering | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| England Karen Vickers, kvickers@csv.org.uk 020 7643 1385 | Scotland Brid Cullen, bcullen@csv.org.uk 0131 622 7766 | |||
| Wales Barbara Locke, Barbara@rsvpwales.fsnet.co.uk 02920 390 477 | ||||
| Regional Offices for Retired and Senior Volunteering | ||||
| London Karen Hamilton, khamilton@csv.org.uk 020 7643 1388 | Yorkshire rsvp.york@tiscali.co.uk 01904 651 732 | |||
North East England Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Cleveland and Hartlepool | West of England Bob Maggs, office@rsvpwest.fsnet.co.uk 0117 925 0505 | |||
| Coventry Lesley Hawkins, lhawkins@csv.org.uk 024 7625 2418 | ||||