Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Royal Voluntary Service
- Women's Voluntary Services
- Women's Royal Voluntary Service
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1938-
History
The Royal Voluntary Service is a voluntary organisation concerned with helping people in need throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1938 by Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, as a British women's organisation to recruit women into the Air Raid Precautions services to help in the event of war