Vois.org.uk
Title
VOIS Ltd (Voicing Our Issues and Struggles)
Description
"To create a community of young people, of all abilities and from all backgrounds, who have an interest in being part of the solution to social problems - young people working together to think, write, speak about and act on issues that affect them, their communities and their world using the tools of research, investigation, analysis and fun."
VOIS is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. VOIS was launched in December 1995 by two of its current Directors, Bisi Akiwumi-Jones and Michael Whiteley, to host web sites and link pages on the Internet on behalf of voluntary organisations and to promote the service to young people. VOIS clients, during the five years it operated its service for the voluntary sector, included a very broad range of organisations from Abbeyfield Society, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and National Centre for Volunteering, to, Shelter and Dogs for the Disabled.
In 1997, the Directors decided that for the organisation to have impact in engaging young people, it would have to interact directly with them. They realised that making a difference would involve finding new, innovative ways of working with the target audience and were of the view that this would require integrating the values of the corporate sector and the voluntary and public sector. Another major consideration was the long-term ambition of the Directors for VOIS to become a self-funding organisation.
