Charity: Sutton Borough Volunteer Centre

Volunteer Centre Sutton (VCS) provides community services to the residents of the London Borough of Sutton where it has worked for over 50 years. Using the power of volunteering, VCS aims to unlock potential, address inequalities, and support the vulnerable, disadvantaged, distressed, and deprived. VCS works by promoting and delivering voluntary projects and programmes across health, education, culture and community development for all age groups, identifying local community needs and solutions. Our MAPS (Mentoring, Advocacy and Peer Support) project helps young people with complex life circumstances, mental health issues, low self-confidence, self-esteem and self-harm achieve their full potential through the support of a volunteer mentor or advocate. Whilst our Sutton Befrienders programme reduces isolation, loneliness and improves wellbeing in the elderly, just two of the projects we run out of Volunteer Centre Sutton.