This website provides a gateway to local VCS infrastructure organisations providing a wide range of support services across Bedfordshire & Luton.

We target supporting voluntary organisations, community groups, charities, clubs and societies, and social enterprises in urban and rural settings, serving people of all ages, background and culture.

Use the gateway links on the right of this page to access the services of the local VCS infrastructure organisations.

Use the Quick Links on the bottom right of this page to access services provided by local Volunteer Centres.

Use the drop down menus on the left of this page to access services provided by local VCS infrastructure organisation in partnership with others.

Transforming Local Infrastructure Fund Success for Bedfordshire & Luton

Bedfordshire & Luton’s VoluntaryWorks Partnership of Voluntary Infrastructure Bodies is one of the seventy-two UK partnerships of local voluntary sector support groups that have received funds from the Office for Civil Society’s £30m Transforming Local Infrastructure fund, that has been set up to help infrastructure bodies work together more closely. The Bedfordshire & Luton partnership has received £799,798.

The fund, which was announced in the government’s Giving White Paper in May and is being administered by the Big Fund, the non-lottery funding operation of the Big Lottery Fund, was set up to support "transformational" activities, such as pooling resources, sharing services and forming better links with local businesses. It will not be funding existing work. More details will follow.