BTCV specialises in working with people within their communities to bring about positive environmental change in both rural and urban settings. Working through a wide range of partnerships, they have 40 years' experience of managing volunteer programmes, developing and delivering community support, and running employment and training initiatives.

In the early years, BTCV developed volunteering as a means to achieve an environmental goal. A bigger picture is now emerging where conservation volunteering is also becoming a focus for the achievement of wider social goals - tackling social exclusion and encouraging personal development and lifelong learning.

BCTV's purpose is to ensure that the potential of voluntary action for the environment is fully realised.

Their vision is of a world where people value their environment and take practical action to improve it.

BTCV believes that it can best maximise its long-term sustainable impact by expanding the boundaries of conservation volunteering and welcoming the involvement of all.

Our aims are to:

• Involve more people in practical environmental action.
  
  
• Work increasingly at a local level.
  
  
• Ensure that training and education are key components of all activities.
  
  
• Use influence to help make voluntary action in the environment relevant to the government's broad social, economic and environmental objectives.
  
  
• Work with partners to achieve shared objectives.
  
  
• Respond to customers' and supporters' needs more effectively.
  
  
• Maintain a commitment to quality.
  
  
• Be financially viable.
  
  

Contact BTCV

Email: information@btcv.org.uk

Tel: 01491 821600

Fax: 01491 839646

36 St Mary's Street
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 0EU