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Applying for Opportunities for Volunteering (OFV) grants
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Last modified date:14 May 2009
The existing Opportunities for Volunteering (OFV) scheme National Agents have now completed the final applications round for grants in 2009-10. The OFV scheme is now effectively closed in its current form.
The Department of Health is currently undertaking a procurement exercise to identify and appoint an organisation to manage a new Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund to replace the OFV scheme. Grants for 2010-11 will be awarded by the new Fund Manager from April 2010.
Those wishing to apply to the new Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund in due course should consult the Department of Health website later this year for information, once the Fund Manager is appointed, on application process and timescales.
More information for existing projects can be found on the Volunteering England website including the:
Below is a list of the national agents.
- Age Concern England (opens new window)
- Attend (opens new window)
- Barnardo's (opens new window)
- Bassac (opens new window)
- The Children's Society (opens new window)
- Churches Together in England (opens new window)
- Crisis (opens new window)
- CSV (opens new window)
- MENCAP (opens new window)
- MIND (opens new window)
- NACRO (opens new window)
- RADAR (opens new window)
- Royal National Institute of the Blind (opens new window)
- SCOPE (opens new window)
- United Kingdom Council on Deafness (opens new window)
- Volunteering England (opens new window)
Contacts
If you wish to contact the Department of Health with queries about the scheme please E-mail us at the below address. Please note that we do not process grant applications.
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