Zone d'identification
Type of entity
Collectivité
Forme autorisée du nom
Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
- Royal Voluntary Service
- Women's Voluntary Services
- Women's Royal Voluntary Service
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates d’existence
1938-
Historique
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