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The Conservation Volunteers

TCV Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024-25

The Conservation Volunteers' Annual Report 2024-25 closes its 2021-25 strategy period and celebrates its 65th anniversary, with King Charles III becoming Royal Patron. In the year TCV transformed 1,357 green spaces across the UK. 99% of its volunteers rate their experience as excellent (81%) or good (18%), 94% say they are more connected to nature and 94% have learnt new skills. Its volunteers are diverse: 18% of registered volunteers have a disability, 27% are from ethnic minority backgrounds and 22% live in the top 20% most deprived UK areas. The I Dig Trees programme with OVO marked 10 years and 3.7m trees.

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The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) is a UK community volunteering charity that connects people and green spaces, bringing people together to protect and restore nature through practical conservation, Green Gyms, training and tree planting.

Key Metrics

1,357 green spaces transformed
99% of volunteers rate their experience as excellent or good
94% of volunteers are more connected to nature

Key Outcomes

  • 94% of volunteers have learnt new skills
  • 85% of volunteers feel more connected to their local community
  • 70,000 extra trees given out to London communities, building on the 3.7m trees the I Dig Trees programme has achieved across the country

Geography

UK-Wide

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