Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022-2023 - Flipbook - Page 3
Welcome to The Conservation
Volunteers’ annual report for
2022-23.
The end of the year marked the midpoint of our four-year strategy, ‘For
people and green spaces: a thriving
network for everyone’. During the
year, we achieved much to be proud
of and pleased about, and I hope
that you will enjoy reading about this
elsewhere in this report.
For now, I’d like to offer up a few
highlights of the progress we made
towards our three strategic goals:
Goal 1: We will deliver, demonstrate
and promote projects that deliver
multiple outcomes for people and
green spaces.
We embedded the use of impact
tools and ways of working,
developed in the previous year,
to improve the quality and speed
of output recording, increase the
reliability of our data, and improve
our reporting. We gathered
extremely positive feedback
from our annual volunteer survey
including, for example:
4 98gofourvolunteersratetheir
experience with TCV as good or
excellent
4 92gfeelthattheirwellbeinghas
improved
4 94gfeelmoreconnectedto
nature
We refreshed the way we collect
volunteer Equality, Diversity and
Inclusion (EDI) data and created
resources to support our staff to
collect it, helping us to build an
ever-clearer picture of the profile of
volunteers across TCV.
Goal 2: We will do more to support
and empower others to connect
people and green spaces and
deliver lasting outcomes for both.
TCV Community Network
membership grew to 2,085
independent local community
groups, supporting more than 41,700
volunteers. We continued to provide
Network members with a package
of support including access to grants
from the Chestnut Fund. We made
systems changes to improve our
understanding of the community
groups we work with, over and
above those within the Community
Network. We consulted extensively
with staff, Community Network
members, the Chestnut Fund
Committee and digital consultants to
improve the support we provide.
all passionate about making a
difference to EDI in TCV. We provide
anti-racism training for staff and
introduced a new online learning
system that will provide a breadth
of EDI and other learning and
development. We conducted a staff
EDI survey and are using the findings
to inform our action plans.
And beyond our strategic goals,
our important day-to-day work
of connecting people and green
spaces continued a pace. We worked
with 87,413 people to transform
1,376 green spaces through 107,765
workdays and a further 53,987 days
of green space connections.
To the myriad funders and partners
who provide invaluable support
for our work, to the dedicated and
expert staff, and to the volunteers
who continue to give their time for
people and green spaces – thank you
for everything you have helped us
to achieve. We look forward to your
continued support.
Goal 3: We will support more
diverse audiences to connect with
green spaces.
Building on the findings from the
EDI audit conducted in 2021, we
introduced an EDI working group
comprising a cross section of staff,
many with lived experience and
Darren York, Chief Executive,
The Conservation Volunteers
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