Institute for Volunteering Research
The Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) is a world-class research and consultancy agency specialising in volunteering.
We undertake research, consultancy and evaluation projects to help improve policy and practice.
For our free volunteering reports and evaluations visit our Evidence Bank.
To find out how we can help you, click here.
News and Events
Read our chapter on volunteering infrastructure in new European publication
You can access CEV's new publication here.
Missed our seminar on volunteering and social mobility?
You can now listen to the podcasts of the speakers here.
Annual Return of Volunteer Centres available now
Get the latest and most comprehensive data on Volunteer Centres in England here.
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Read about the findings of our evaluation of City Year London in @HuffingtonPost - http://t.co/wWYGIXJg
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Social Research Association summer event 21 June asking what the localism bill means for policy researchers - http://t.co/kJlOxQVq
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Read our take on volunteering infrastructure in the European Volunteer Centre's latest publication - http://t.co/TbcX1Hrn
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Interim report of the evaluation of National Citizen Service available now at http://t.co/YvUqJV4z.
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Our email is now back up and running - apologies for any problems in trying to reach us over the past few days.
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We're having a few technical issues so email is not working - we're hoping to be back online very soon. Apologies for any inconvenience.
The Institute for Volunteering Research is an initiative of Volunteering England in research partnership with Birbeck, University of London
REVEAL The REVEAL project aims to develop innovative multi-lingual self assessment tools and training courses designed to strengthen the skills base of both volunteers and the managers of volunteers, throughout Europe.
Evaluation of BT Troubleshooters BT have commissioned IVR and Volunteering England to deliver and evaluate their Troubleshooter volunteering programme.