About Us

Community Action Derby

Community Action Derby is a registered charity providing support and guidance for voluntary and community groups. We encourage, support and develop individuals, groups and organisations involved in voluntary action. We also promote new initiatives which tackle social exclusion and economic disadvantage and work to establish partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors.

We can help with all aspects of running a voluntary or community organisation. We:

Provide funding advice and information
Recruit and place volunteers, and support those responsible for managing volunteers
Offer training and development opportunities
Represent the sector on local and national partnership bodies and forums
Promote your organisation's events
Promote your organisation's vacancies
Organise networking events.

We also provide access to a wide range of information including:

Details of training events and funding opportunities
Funding News - monthly bulletin with all of the latest funding opportunities
Venue hire in Derby.

Volunteer Centre

As the Volunteer Centre for Derby city we also offer a brokerage service for potential volunteers and organisations and support volunteer-involving organisations to develop opportunities.

Join our mailing list!

Our mailings include our monthly Funding Newsletter, our bi-monthly Reach Out newsletter, invitations to our forums, training and events, and other news / updates relevant to the VCSE sector in, and around, Derby. Subscribe here!