CSV works with companies to set up volunteering projects that give the benefit of voluntary action for employers, employees and the community as a whole.
"First Figures for DWP Volunteer Brokerage Scheme
30/10/2009 As reported in Third Sector magazine, nearly 2,400 unemployed people have completed volunteering placements in the first five months of the £8m volunteer brokerage scheme being run by environmental charity BTCV for the Department for Work and Pensions.
The scheme, which began in April this year, has a target of matching 34,000 jobseekers with volunteering placements within two years.
A DWP spokeswoman said the department had no monthly targets, but expected the numbers to rise significantly in future months and did not intend to alter the overall target.
The scheme is being run by BTCV in partnership with volunteering charities Volunteering England, CSV and v. BTCV said 1,128 of the 2,365 placements were arranged by BTCV itself and the rest by its partner charities.
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