The Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant scheme

The Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant scheme is now open for projects that will look long-term at volunteering and improve volunteering practices in Wales.

The aim of the Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant (VWSG) scheme is to support a small number of strategic projects to build on and learn from the new or improved approaches to volunteering across Wales.

2025-28 ROUND ONE

For this round of funding, high quality proposals are welcome from the following priority areas:

• Health and social care
• Education and young people
• Environment/climate emergency
• Arts/culture/sport
• Welsh language/communities

GRANT OBJECTIVES

The VWSG scheme aims to unlock the strategic potential of volunteering over the longer term by:

• Identifying the strategic need and exploring new volunteering opportunities or removing barriers to volunteering
• Exploring partnerships within and between the voluntary, private and public sector
• Supporting the upscaling of strategic infrastructure and volunteer organisation to embed emerging good practise
• Undertaking thorough learning around equality and inclusion in volunteering and exploring how this impacts communities and their engagement
• Strengthening partnerships
• Levering further investment, both financial and non-financial