Royal Voluntary Service was originally founded in 1938 as the Women’s Voluntary Services for Air Raid Precautions (WVS). It is the largest volunteering organisation in British history, and the charity’s volunteers continue to support communities across Britain today. To mark the 75th Anniversary of VE Day on Friday 8 May 2020, the charity remembered the ‘Women in Green’; the women who stepped forward to give the gift of volunteering to support their communities during the Second World War.
In honour of the occasion, Royal Voluntary Service hosted a day of VE Day celebrations at the Virtual Village Hall with a 1940s hairstyle tutorial, live wartime singalong and a jive dance class. If you didn’t manage to join in on the day, you can watch again here.
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