We are auctioning off portraits drawn by four members of everyone’s favourite boy band, One Direction, to raise money for young volunteers. Unfortunately Louis was busy being adorable elsewhere and didn't have time to draw one. But you can see the others’ final pieces of artwork below. Any self-respecting One Direction fan would be proud to hang this one-off piece of stylized, fun art on their bedroom wall! Fans can bid here to win all four self-portraits from W...

We’re very excited to announce the launch of a new platform, Igniter, empowering young people to raise funds from members of the public to run their own projects. At vInspired, we believe in the power of young people to take a lead and develop their own projects that will have a meaningful impact in their communities. Young people on our online support platform, Junction49, have already demonstrated their commitment to making a difference and we wanted to go that one step fur...

The winners of this year’s vInspired National Awards are the stars of our short film celebrating the power of volunteering to support young people to do good things. The 2012 vInspired National Awards celebrated the most inspiring examples of young people from all backgrounds making a positive difference to the lives of others. Our latest film, seen through the eyes of our inspiring National Awards winners, celebrates our belief that young people can change the worl...

Last month, film director, writer and producer David LG Hughes attended the vInspired National Awards. Here, he explains how the event inspired him to show his support for young people by donating 50 per cent of proceeds from the official soundtrack of his latest film to vInspired... Recently, I had the honour of presenting the Overall Commitment to Volunteering Award to Danika Hamilton at the vInspired National Awards with Scot Williams, one of the stars of my new feature film, Hard...