Benefits of membership
Join us, join NCVO
You will automatically become a community member of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) when you join the NRC, unless you choose not to do so. As a member, you will receive an electronic membership package created specifically for small organisations and community groups like yours. For more information on how NCVO can help you, visit www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/nrc.
NCVO is the largest umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector in England. It has been helping small community groups for over 90 years. With over 5,500 members, NCVO is an effective lobbying organisation that represents the views of its members and the wider voluntary sector to government, the European Union and other bodies. Through the NCVO, you will:
- get the information you need to save you time and money and enable you to become more effective
- benefit from exclusive members’ discounts to save you money and help you become more efficient
- become part of a powerful community of over 5,500 voluntary organisations
- engage with other supplementary schools and with key decision makers, so that you can bring about the change you want.
We’ve also teamed up with lots of exciting partners so that we can offer you large discounts on a range of products to help you run and manage your supplementary school.
Benefits of membership
- free membership of NCVO
- 30 per cent off Mantra Lingua publications and resources
- 10–30 per cent off Playbreak’s educational board games
- 20 per cent off g-and-w publications
- 10–20 per cent off CGP Books publications
- large discounts on Ukos stationery and the chance to buy a specially designed start-up kit
- free Happy IT software manuals to download
- 15 per cent off the Curriculum guides for community languages series, produced by CILT, the National Centre for Languages, in partnership with Goldsmiths. You can also download these free of charge.
- access to the NRC’s email helpline
- a certificate of membership, showing the Code of Practice you have agreed to follow, for you to copy and include in funding applications and partnership agreements.
- access to our funding tool
- a monthly e-Bulletin of information about what’s going on in the world of supplementary education and a termly printed Bulletin with features and articles about supplementary schools
- a free wallet of practical guidance booklets to:
- help you run your supplementary school
- enable you to judge for yourself how well you are serving your community
- support the Code of Practice
- help you work towards the Quality Framework Award
