Join GAVCA

Have you considered the benefit of being a member or a friend of the Gloucestershire Association for Voluntary and Community Action (GAVCA)?

We hope that you consider it worthwhile to be part of our active network to influence local policy on key issues and to keep in touch with what is happening in the voluntary and community sector.

Why Join GAVCA?

For a relatively minimal cost membership will allow you to:

Receive our quarterly newsletter - VCS pulse
Take advantage of reduced rates for training
Use our resources, including our training/meeting rooms, at reduced rates
Access advice, information and services, including funding and management advice and other issues
Use the electronic and paper information distribution services at reduced rates to get information that you wish to circulate out to people on the GAVCA mailing list, and access information about the VCS from the countywide database
Vote at our AGM, nominate people to stand as trustees of the organisation and even become a Trustee yourself if you wish!
Free On-line Human Resources and Health and Safety Legislation Help for GAVCA Members - read more here.
Free help with funding applications - read more here.
Extra reductions for Accounting Services - read more here.

Friends status enables you to:

receive quarterly information mailings, including our newsletter, now called VCS pulse
support the valuable work that GAVCA does to provide information, advice and support to the voluntary and community sector in Gloucester, Cheltenham and across the County
be able to use the electronic and paper information distribution networks available through GAVCA to get information that you wish to circulate to people on the GAVCA mailing list

Further information to download

Please download the invitation letter (Word document) which will give you more information on becoming a member of GAVCA. You may also be interested in GAVCA's Membership Policy.

How to apply

If you would like to become a Member or a Friend, download the application form (Word document).

Contact details for membership queries

Nicola Dean

Cheltenham VCA
Community Resource Centre
340 Lower High St
Cheltenham
GL50 3JF
Tel: 01242 227737
Email:

GAVCA
75-81 Eastgate Street
Gloucester GL1 1PN

01452 332424