Volunteer It Yourself combines volunteering and DIY by challenging young people aged 14-24 to learn trade and building skills, on the job, by committing to fix community buildings in need of repair or improvement.
Volunteer It Yourself combines volunteering and DIY by challenging young people aged 14-24 to learn trade and building skills, on the job, by committing to fix community buildings in need of repair or improvement.
VIY are working on a three year project with Sport England involving 4,000+ young volunteers helping to renovate and improve 225 grassroots sports clubs and other active community spaces and places in need.
More than 60% of the projects will be located in local communities among the 20% most deprived nationally.
Projects will also be match-funded and delivered in collaboration with other stakeholders such as national sports governing bodies, local authorities, and building and construction sector employers, as well as key VIY partners Dulux and Travis Perkins.
In the process, young people will be gaining valuable trade skills and communities will be brought closer together. Sport, volunteering and DIY is a powerful mix!
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VIY is working with Sport England on 225 refurbishment projects at sports clubs and community buildings over the next three years.
They are looking for smaller scale refurbishment projects (c.£20,000 overall budget) in or close to:
London, Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Norfolk
that will have a meaningful impact on the group in question.
Examples of some of VIY’s previous projects and programmes can be found on their website or this video of a recent VIY project at a rugby club in Coventry in partnership with Toolstation.
If you are interested in finding out more and completing an application form, please email info@teamviy.com
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