Overall Aims
TCV's vision is "a better environment where people are valued, included and involved".
The organisation's aims include:
- Enabling people to make a difference in their lives and improve the places around them.
- Providing opportunities and choice for people to improve their lives.
- Local mobilisation to have a global impact (e.g. through activities to combat climate change).
- Delivering social and environmental equality.
On a practical level, TCV enables 628,000 volunteers per year to engage in conservation work in both the urban and the rural environment.
TCV also has a for-profit trading arm, BTCV Enterprises, which generates profit to feed back into and support the charity. The company has various government contracts to work with the long-term unemployed, aiming to improve skills and qualifications.
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