News archive

🎅 Daily £100 donations in December! It’s the season of giving, and funding website easyfundraising are spreading some festive cheer with their Christmas Crackers competition,

Hochtief are delighted to introduce Connecting Communities, an initiative designed to support community groups, voluntary organisations, and social enterprises across North Lanarkshire. This programme reflects their

The Community Solutions locality hosts, both current and previous have done an outstanding job in the planning and distribution of consortia funding and coordination of

It is with great sadness that VANL announces the passing of our former colleague, Jean Thomson, who died on 29th October 2025. Jean started with

We are pleased to share a valuable opportunity for community organisations seeking sustainable, unrestricted funding. Through easyfundraising, your organisation can receive financial support generated from

Young people make up a large part of the population but they hold less than 3% of charity trustee roles. According to the Young Trustees

Join us for a collaborative briefing session hosted by the North Lanarkshire Partnership, aimed at community organisations and groups across the area. As the current

After a gap of several years, VANL is relaunching the Third Sector Community Justice Network to bring together organisations delivering any form of community justice

We are delighted to share the details and booking links for the upcoming North Lanarkshire Community and Voluntary Sector Locality Network Events taking place soon!  These sessions

Throughout the last year the Community Solutions Programme has funded over 201 projects between:  VANL would like to showcase the incredible work these projects have

We are thrilled to welcome Aileen Webster as VANL’s new Community and Organisational Development Lead. With a rich background in project management and development, Aileen

We are delighted to announce the relaunch of the North Lanarkshire Social Enterprise Network – this network will provide a space for enterprising organisations and individuals to

We are thrilled to welcome Tony O’Neill as VANL’s new Social Enterprise Lead. With a rich background in both social enterprise and community development, Tony

We are reaching out to invite you to take part in our Employability and Volunteering Survey, designed to gather valuable insights from organisations like you

Update 06/08/2025: This programme is now full and is no longer accepting new enquiries. Thank you for your interest. North Lanarkshire Council’s Working for Families

On Saturday 7th June, Lanarkshire Deaf Hub held a volunteer celebration event to thank all of their volunteers for their time, commitment and dedication. The

This month we were so excited to welcome Heather on board to help us spread the word about the power of volunteering for young people.

We are also excited to announce our new hot off the press easy to use guide to taking on young volunteers.  Our intrepid Volunteer Lead

HOCHTIEF, the contractor delivering the Roads & Infrastructure Maintenance & Improvement Services for North Lanarkshire Council, has officially launched Connecting Communities. Connecting Communities is a brand-new initiative created to support

Message published on behalf of Fiona Swift, Senior Education & Families Manager (Social Work) Hi, Gentle reminder of the 1 day Partner agency session we

The Locality Activity Fund (LAF) is a small grants programme that supports local Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS) organisations in each of the six North

We would like to thank everyone that came along to the Autumn 2024 round of Locality Network Events! Please see below, the master presentation slides

We’re excited to announce that the Annual North Lanarkshire Community & Voluntary Sector Conference is taking place on Tuesday, 10th December 2024 at Freedom City

VANL is currently reviewing how we can improve and develop our services. As someone who has previously used VANL’s services, we would be grateful if

Following the sudden and unexpected passing of Christine McNally on Tuesday 3rd September 2024, VANL would like to pay tribute to the remarkable and valued

We are delighted to share the details and booking links for these events in October and November 2024. There are four events taking place with

Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire (VANL) is delighted to announce that Phase Four of this fund is open for applications.  VANL has received £955K of funding from

Introducing North Lanarkshire Volunteering – Your new Volunteering platform! Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire is thrilled to launch our brand new Volunteering platform: North Lanarkshire Volunteering

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

 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

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.

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’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

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