Voluntary Action Islington
Promoting a thriving, effective, and influential voluntary sector in Islington, IVAC is Islington's umbrella agency for the voluntary sector and the main provider of support for local voluntary organisations. The scale and diversity of the sector and the extent of the needs in the borough make these major tasks.
Islington is a deceptive borough. One could be deceived by national press coverage into believing that the borough consists of a cappuccino-swilling middle-class community regularly dining out in Granita with Tony Blair.
The truth, however, for the majority of the Borough's population is entirely different. Deprivation indices show that Islington is the eighth most deprived borough in the UK. It is an inner-London borough with a multi-ethnic population and much social deprivation, including high unemployment, poverty and poor health. Statutory services are severely stretched and inadequate.
