Volunteering Matters is the UK’s leading volunteering charity. It was founded in 1962 by Mora and Alec Dickson, who also founded Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Prior to 2015, Volunteering Matters was known as Community Service Volunteers (CSV). In the 2016/2017 financial year, Volunteering Matters engaged around 30,000 volunteers through its hundreds of voluntary projects across England, Scotland and Wales.