Identificatie
Soort entiteit
Instelling
Geauthoriseerde naam
Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence
Parallelle vormen van de naam
Gestandaardiseerde naamvorm(en) volgens andere regels.
Aandere naamsvormen
- Royal Voluntary Service
- Women's Voluntary Services
- Women's Royal Voluntary Service
Identificatiecode voor organisaties
Beschrijving
Bestaansperiode
1938-
Geschiedenis
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