Youth volunteering

The UK Government and VSO are immensely proud of everything International Citizen Service (ICS) achieved.

Between 2011-2020, VSO and our partners supported over 40,000 ICS volunteers to contribute to sustainable change, working alongside community members in some of the poorest regions of the world.

40,000

The ICS programme launched in 2011 and since then nearly 40,000 young people have volunteered across the world.

92%

92% of partners involved in ICS have said that their organisation is better able to bring positive change.

74%

74% of ICS volunteers say the experience has been very useful for their career development.

What can I do?

National volunteer Asha conducts an aspirations analysis with young female applicants to the Lake Zone Youth Empowerment project.

Youth networks

Our youth networks are unifying and amplifying the voices of young people.

A group of people sit on the floor as Daw Hla Myint points out the map of village during a disaster risk management awareness session in Kyatkathone Village

Volunteer with VSO

Find out more about volunteering with VSO

Follow four young people as they embark on an ICS experience, meeting people from a different way of life.

ICS stories

By bringing young people from all walks of life together to volunteer on placement, and then back in their home communities, ICS has delivered positive changes beyond the 12-week volunteering placement.

Our partners

ICS was funded by the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), which projects the UK as a force for good in the world, including reducing poverty and tackling global challenges.