International Partners

World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Volunteer Development Scotland has has a long connection with CIVICUS over the years and we have been members of CIVICUS since 2004. We have been priviledged to have had Kumi Naidoo's knowledge and wisdom as a contributor to our conferences and Assemblies in the last four years. 

Volunteer Development Scotland first became invovled with IAVE through Liz Burns, the founding member of staff at Volunteer Development Scotland in 1984. She became Director of Volunteer Development Scotland in 1988 and retired in 2001 to take up her position as the President of IAVE from which she has now stepped down.

Our connections with the European Volunteer Centre go back several years through the work of  Liz Burns, a past President of CEV. Volunteer Development Scotland formally joined the Centre in 1996 and members of staff from Volunteer Development Scotland contribute on a regular basis to a variety of conferences, seminars and projects at a European level.

For more information on the European Volunteer Centre (CEV) please click here.