History
WCVA was born in 1934 and known as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Council of Social Service. During the Depression, the Council funded district nurses at a cost of £100 a year, and supported co-op schemes to dig mountain coal and keep fit classes for women. In the following decades WCVA’s scope increased, and it supported the founding of organisations like Citizens’ Advice Bureaux and Disability Wales.
Since then, WCVA has promoted volunteering across Wales, launched the Wales Volunteer of the Year scheme, taken on the management of the Communities First Trust Fund and much more besides.
Read more about this topic: Wales Council For Voluntary Action
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