Established in 1920, VAST is a registered charity, providing specialist services to the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector in Staffordshire, supporting them to deliver high quality services to local communities. VAST acts as an advocate, on behalf of the VCSE as a strategic level supporting cross-sector work with public sectors, partners and provides back-office support and bespoke capacity building and volunteering support to enable VCSE organisations to flourish - a 'One Stop Support Shop for the VCSE'.

Our key aim is to promote and advance the professional development of the VCSE sector locally, to support and encourage a vibrant, thriving and sustainable local VCSE Sector which can deliver high quality services for the benefit of their beneficiaries.