NAVCA

The Tower
2 Furnival Square
Sheffield
S1 4QL

Tel: 0114 278 6636
Textphone: 0114 278 7025
Web: www.navca.org.uk

NAVCA (the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) is the national voice of local third sector infrastructure in England. Their members work with 164,000 local third sector groups and organisations that provide community services, regenerate neighbourhoods, promote volunteering and tackle discrimination in partnership with local public bodies.

Their purpose is to promote the local third sector nationally. They do this by providing their members with information, advice, networking and learning opportunities, support and development services. In turn, they draw on their members' experience to influence government and contribute to national policy. They also work closely with other national bodies to ensure a collaborative approach to policy development.

('Third sector' can be defined as non-governmental organisations that are value driven and which principally reinvest their surpluses to further social, environmental or cultural objectives. It includes voluntary and community organisations, charities, social enterprises, cooperatives, mutuals and housing associations.)