There are 22 part-time GwirVol Youth Volunteering Advisors (YVA’s) that are based in the volunteer centres around Wales.

YVA's overall aims are to:

• Increase the number and diversity of young people involved in volunteering
• Increase the number and quality of volunteering opportunities for young people in Wales

They do this by:

• Promoting volunteering opportunities to young people and recruiting and placing young people into opportunities.
• Giving presentations
• Offering advice and information to organisations about how to develop youth friendly volunteering opportunities
• Placing new opportunities on the Wales volunteering web site www.volunteering-wales.net
• Establishing local social networking sites (like bebo and facebook)
• Producing publicity
• Supporting local youth led grant giving panels, both as a means of funding new, youth led opportunities and as a means of engaging young volunteers as panel members.If you currently have opportunities for young people you can promote these through the Youth Volunteering Advisors. If you are a young person who would like to find out what you can get involved with in your area you can contact your local Youth Volunteering Advisor.