Retired and Senior Volunteering

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.

 

Contact RSVP!

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
Durham, Dales, Northumberland, Newcastle Sunderland
rsvpne@hotmail.com
0191 389 1155

Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Cleveland and Hartlepool
rsvpmiddlesbro@btconnect.com
01642 231 560

  West of England
Bob Maggs, office@rsvpwest.fsnet.co.uk
0117 925 0505
 
Coventry
Lesley Hawkins, lhawkins@csv.org.uk
024 7625 2418