International Citizen Service

The ICS consortium are a group of organisations that aim to use their experience in running overseas volunteer programmes to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Collectively, the ICS agencies work directly with around 3000 international volunteers every year and have partnerships in over 60 countries.

[4] The International Citizen Service was criticized for a lack of value and basically providing holidays on taxpayers expense.

[5] Questions have been raised as to whether the cost of £7,633 per volunteer for the flights, visas, accommodation, food, insurance, a certain amount of living expenses and training of young people offers good value for money.

[6] The same report showed however that those volunteers raised £2.148 million to support the programmes during that period which covered the majority of that cost.