ALVO is a community development organisation specialising in community engagement and empowerment.

We exist to aid the individual citizen and the organisation they choose to invest their energies in. We foster the capacity of local people and communities to bring about change and regeneration through voluntary action.

Why the community needs this charity

Our role is to support and facilitate the development of the voluntary sector at a local level. Through this we strengthen the contribution local voluntary organisations make to the economic, social and cultural wellbeing of their community.

Results and outcomes

ALVO has almost 40 years experience of the management, development, and direction of studies, projects and programmes at local, regional and national levels, and has been responsible for developing over £18 million of inward investment to the local sector. In 2010 ALVO stopped receiving government grant to pursue this work, following its decision not to become part of the new Scottish Interface network, and is now independently pursuing the objects it began with in 1974.

Latest activities and projects

Local Community Led Planning

Local Community Led Planning is a unique process that is intended to support the production of an evidence based statement of the issues and aspirations of a community and, in the longer term to create more self-determining communities with the capacity to take greater control over addressing their own issues and aspirations.  read more