Royal Voluntary Service Heritage Collection

Royal Voluntary Service Heritage Collection Royal Voluntary Service Archive & Heritage Collection cares for the records of the WVS

The Royal Voluntary Service Archive and Heritage Collection was formed in 1958, the organisation's twentieth anniversary, to gather together and keep safe records which were of long term historical importance. Since then the Archive & Heritage Collection has been collecting material both from within the organisation and from our volunteers around the United Kingdom and overseas to tell the amazing

story of over one million women and men who have given extraordinary service to their communities and helped shape British society. The collection now includes approximately two million documents, nearly 15,000 photographs and thousands of unique items of uniform and objects. In 2010 the WVS and WRVS narrative reports, which form a significant part of the Royal Voluntary Service Archive & Heritage Collection, were awarded UK Memory of the world status by the United Nations educational, cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO and are considered to be of outstanding importance and value to the UK.

Have you kept your
31/01/2020

Have you kept your

Ode to the WVS!
29/01/2020

Ode to the WVS!

A story written by one of our members from the Second World War - 'On a Canal in Wartime.'
27/01/2020

A story written by one of our members from the Second World War - 'On a Canal in Wartime.'

You have just one more week to see our exhibition Compassion in Crisis
24/01/2020

You have just one more week to see our exhibition

Compassion in Crisis





Here's something from our records defining archives and the joy of working with them.
22/01/2020

Here's something from our records defining archives and the joy of working with them.

Beautiful handwriting from a WVS Centre Organiser in .
20/01/2020

Beautiful handwriting from a WVS Centre Organiser in .

Do you remember our knitted doll Stella from 2014-2016? Voices of Volunteering was a pioneering project bringing the ...
17/01/2020

Do you remember our knitted doll Stella from 2014-2016? Voices of Volunteering was a pioneering project bringing the voices of WVS, WRVS and Royal Voluntary Service to life. You can and read their stories on Archive Online http://catalogue.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/calmview/

You can access text searchable digital copies for free of all 419 issues of the Bulletin and Magazine through our onlin...
15/01/2020

You can access text searchable digital copies for free of all 419 issues of the Bulletin and Magazine through our online catalogue They offer a very clear and accessible view of the activities and work between 1939 and 1974: http://catalogue.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/calmview

WRVS uniform hasn't just been formal it has also included a range of sports wear. Here you can see the Green Tracksuit j...
13/01/2020

WRVS uniform hasn't just been formal it has also included a range of sports wear.
Here you can see the Green Tracksuit jacket with light green piping dark red sewn 'WRVS' and Green Tracksuit trousers with light green piping by New Concept.

we have quite a lot of small items including all the items in this First Aid Box which forms a Model Rest Centre ...
10/01/2020

we have quite a lot of small items including all the items in this First Aid Box which forms a Model Rest Centre includes a green model toilet.

A small elegant green leatherette shoulder bag with an adjustable strap and a brass clasp fastener. This would have bee...
08/01/2020

A small elegant green leatherette shoulder bag with an adjustable strap and a brass clasp fastener. This would have been added to the official WRVS uniform in 1972.

When the NHS was established in 1948 Lady Reading and the Minister for Health, Aneurin Bevan, agreed that WVS would expa...
06/01/2020

When the NHS was established in 1948 Lady Reading and the Minister for Health, Aneurin Bevan, agreed that WVS would expand into running out-patient canteens.

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