Established as a registered charity in 1971, Rushmoor Voluntary Services (RVS) are the Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) in Rushmoor. Our role in the community is to champion volunteering and to support any voluntary or community group working in the Borough of Rushmoor.

RVS’s key role in the community is to champion volunteering and to support voluntary or community groups working in the Borough of Rushmoor. We do this by creating networks; our well attended quarterly Voluntary Sector Forum is testament to this. We also provide information and assistance with volunteer recruitment and training, maintaining governance good practice and access to funding opportunities.

RVS also manage a number of projects that provide community benefit. These include:

• Blooming Marvellous - a supported volunteering gardening project.
• Community Transport - which includes scheduled passenger services and a group-hire minibus scheme for Rushmoor & Hart.
• HIV in Hampshire – emotional and practicable support to people living with HIV.
• Home Help - providing shopping and light housework to frail, elderly and disabled people.

We work in close partnership with various organisations including our core funders Rushmoor Borough Council and Hampshire County Council.

RVS are members of the Hampshire Council of Voluntary Services (CVS)  Network, an alliance of eight organisations who work together to help Hampshire’s charities, community groups and social enterprises to succeed and flourish. We collaborate in a local cluster with Hart and Basingstoke CVSs.

Our Mission

In partnership with the voluntary, statutory and business sectors, enabling all the people of Rushmoor to play a full and active part in the life of the local community.

Where we Work

The area we cover for our CVS services includes Aldershot and Farnborough, along the Blackwater Valley in the north east corner of Hampshire.

Over 300 organisations and groups from this area are members of RVS.

Join us!

Through the pandemic, we worked with key partners to lead the local response to the Covid emergency. New opportunities arose from the amazing community response.

You now have the opportunity to join us as we evolve through a period of positive and progressive change.

 If you are committed to working alongside your community, to build a sustainable and resilient future, we’d like to hear from you.