Introducing North Lanarkshire Volunteering – Your new Volunteering platform! Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire is thrilled to launch our brand new Volunteering platform: North Lanarkshire Volunteering (Kinetic NL), designed to enhance the volunteering experience for people seeking new volunteering opportunities. With North Lanarkshire Volunteering, you can: ✔️ Search and apply for new exciting volunteering opportunities ✔️ […]

We’re thrilled to invite you to join the brand new North Lanarkshire Community Climate Action network, following the launch of our Climate and Green Wellbeing project earlier this year! From the feedback we received during the pilot project, training sessions, and launch event, it’s clear that many of you are looking for ongoing support in your […]

 Today we are delighted to welcome David Wood to VANL as our new CEO. David comes to us with an excellent track record of leading voluntary sector organisations in both Scotland and England and is well placed to lead VANL as we embark on our new strategy, focusing on providing the highest quality support, information […]

North Lanarkshire Council’s Working for Families Programme is seeking support from partners in the third sector to create work placements within their organisation for Working for Families registered clients. Working for Families has a caseload of clients who would benefit from six months work experience to support them on their work journey. North Lanarkshire Council will support each organisation with full employee […]

VANL would like to invite you to join and sign up for our new FREE volunteer management software – https://vanl.teamkinetic.co.uk/ Registration is simple and fast and it only takes 7 quick steps to register and create your profile page. Once you have registered you can create your volunteer opportunities and start promoting them straight away. 🚀Team […]

It’s Volunteer’s week!  This Volunteer’s week VANL are looking into the benefits to wellbeing of what we like to call ‘Green Health’ projects, these are projects that connect us to nature and get us into the great outdoors. These projects range from biodiversity projects, planting wildflowers etc, such as the Cumbernauld Community Parks: https://cumbernauldlivinglandscape.org.uk/project/cumbernauld-community-park/   to […]

The Chief Executive of Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire (VANL) will retire in June. MaddyHalliday has led the organisation for the past five and a half years, capping off a long andillustrious career in the Community and Voluntary sector. Ryan Currie, Interim Chair of VANL, said the board are deeply grateful for her service.“Maddy has steered […]

Due to upcoming changes in legislation, Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire will no longer be able to act as an Intermediary Organisation to process applications for PVG’s.  As a result of this, you will now need to enrol directly with Volunteer Scotland Disclosure Services (VSDS) to continue to access your disclosures. You can find out more by visiting their […]

Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire and University Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire are delighted to announce the launch of a new website for our North Lanarkshire Community Solutions programme. The Community Solutions programme is our flagship, partnership, strategic investment programme for the community and voluntary sector (CVS) in North Lanarkshire. The programme aims to improve health, wellbeing, inclusion and equality […]

Join us today, 14th of March, to celebrate #SocialPrescribingDay! highlighting the incredible impact of social prescribing on our health and wellbeing. We also invite you to participate in the Social Prescribing Network Consultation. This survey aims to gather your valuable insights on the establishment of a North Lanarkshire-wide social prescribing network. Click the link below […]