Councils for Voluntary Service in the London Urban Zone
Below are the organisations that make up the Councils for Voluntary Service category. They are ordered by descending traffic rank in the local territory as detailed by Alexa. Where they have insufficient traffic to have a UK traffic rank the organisation is ordered by their global traffic rank and where there is insufficient traffic for even a global ranking, an organisation is just listed alphabetically. Finally where an organisation does not have an independent website they are ordered by their parent organisation’s traffic rank. A quick and easy way to look up the Alexa traffic rank for a website is to visit the Chrome Web Store and to install the Alexa plugin to your copy of the Chrome browser.
These organisations administer the funding provided by the local authority to the voluntary and community sector. They also represent the voice of the sector in their area and facilitate partnership between third sector organisations and between these organisations and the wider public and commercial sectors. In 2005 the third sector in London had a turnover of £18,7000,000 and employed 250,000 people (6.8% of the workforce). Councils for Voluntary Service are sometimes joined by local Centres for Voluntary Action (in turn represented nationally by Volunteering England) and in a few instances are multi-authority organisations. They are represented by the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action, London Voluntary Service Councils, and, sub regionally by South London Councils for Voluntary Service.