The West Midlands Voluntary and Community Sector

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RAWM works with a range of partners, including Social Enterprise West Midlands to promote and support the voluntary and community sector in the West Midlands area.

 

The voluntary and community sector in the West Midlands

  • There are over 14,430 formal and active organisations based in the West Midlands – the equivalent of 2.2 per 1,000 people
  • The voluntary & community sector spends in excess of £3.3billion every year in the West Midlands
  • 64% of voluntary & community sector staff in the West Midlands are full time
  • Just over half the sector’s workforce is in a range of social work and social care occupations
  • Almost 8% of the UK’s voluntary and community sector workforce is in the West Midlands
  • Over 51,000 people are employed in the West Midlands voluntary & community sector
  • 45% of employees in the West Midlands voluntary & community sector are in professional, technical and managerial occupations.

• Birmingham www.bvsc.org
• Coventry www.vacoventry.org.uk
• Dudley www.dudleycvs.org.uk
• Herefordshire www.comfirst.org.uk, www.herefordshireva.org
• Redditch www.barn.org.uk
• Sandwell www.scvo.info
• Shropshire www.shropshire-rcc.org.uk
• Solihull solihull-sustain.org.uk
• Stafford www.sdvs.org.uk
• Staffordshire www.sscva.org.uk/info
• Stoke on Trent www.vast.org.uk
• Tamworth www.tamworth-cvs.org.uk/info
• Walsall www.walsallva.org.uk
• Warwick www.wcava.org.uk
• Warwickshire www.wcava.org.uk
• Worcester www.comfirst.org.uk
• Worcestershire www.comfirst.org.uk
• Wolverhampton www.wolverhamptonvsc.org.uk

More information about the economic and social contribution of voluntary and community sector to the West Midlands can be found in our publication 'The Economic Footprint of the voluntary and community sector in the West Midlands'. Contact our information & communications policy associate to request your copy.