Welcome to Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire’s (VANL) website.

This website was designed to support the North Lanarkshire Community and Voluntary Sector (CVS) – as well as volunteering and collaboration between the CVS and public sector – as we work together for a better North Lanarkshire.

This site provides useful information about;

Linked Local Initiatives Supported by VANL

North Lanarkshire Community Lottery

Community Solutions Programme

Action on Climate Together North Lanarkshire

Key External Resources

A Local Information System for Scotland – ALISS – where every CVS organisation in North Lanarkshire can upload vital information about their services.

Appreciative Inquiry - which is a positive and creative approach to supporting change and improvements within organisations , communities, partnerships and more widely. You can find out about Appreciative Inquiry and useful resources here. Appreciative Inquiry approaches were also used to develop our forthcoming North Lanarkshire CommUnity Agreement.Click Here

Charity Excellence self-assessment tool – a great resource to help CVS organisations assess their performance and identify improvement.Click Here

Co-production is a way of making decisions that combines everyone’s strengths so that we can work together to achieve positive change." VANL actively supports, applies and promotes co-production approaches in North Lanarkshire through our work with the CVS and public sector partners. The Community Solutions Programme is a great example of the successful application of co-production

Growing Climate Confidence - is an online tool to support community and voluntary organisations take action to reduce their carbon emissions within their organisation. VANL promotes this resource as part of our support to the community and voluntary sector on climate and green wellbeing issues.Click Here

Lasting Difference - resources to capacity building and sustainability for CVS organisations

Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities (THRE) initiative - THRE provides training, information and other resources to support community and voluntary sector organisations to take a human rights and equalities first approach.Click Here

VANL is also a member of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) which provides useful information, training and more for our sector.

Latest News

VANL statement re: Airdrie Complaints

11 April 2024

Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire (VANL) are delighted to advise that after thorough and fair investigations into three complaints made against the Community Solutions Locality Host for the Airdrie Consortium – Diamonds in the Community – that the allegations in these complaints were found to be wholly unsubstantiated. VANL thank DITC for their full co-operation during […]

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