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Free Speech
Free Speech
The Defend campaign for free speech is a volunteer led initiative set up by Jason Tanner in the UK on 10th March 2026. It provides free information and signposts sources of resource materials and information from other organisations.
CSV (Community Service Volunteers) changed its name to Volunteering Matters in 2015. It was the brainchild of former Colonial Service official, Dr Alec Dickson and his wife Mora who created it in 1962; partly in reaction to another NGO they'd started a few years earlier now known as VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas). I was told by CSV's very first and long standing member of staff, Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, that Alec had started to feel that volunteering overseas was a bit of a luxury.
The UK's Volunteers
The UK's Volunteers
CSV's founders felt that every young person in the UK should have the right to be supported to volunteer back home, no matter if they were rich or poor. This mantra of service soon extended to people of all ages and reinvigorated even the oldest community members to feel useful in meaningful roles
At the start of this century, I I was headinged a remarkably talented and effective, but small team of volunteers at the nation's largest volunteering charity CSV (Community Service Volunteers). It was the brainchild of former Colonial Service official, Dr Alec Dickson and his wife Mora who created it in 1962; partly in reaction to another NGO they'd a few years earlier now known as VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas).
They punched way above their weight and names such as Paul, Martin, Chris, Esther, Georgie and Melissa generated millions of pounds worth of 'free editorial' exposure in the media of the day
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