We are the Civil Aid Voluntary Rescue Association (CAVRA), a voluntary resilience organisation operating within the United Kingdom, across the England and Wales area . We are a registered charity (no.1194929), and our purpose is to provide back-up personnel to the emergency services and local authorities in a range of situations.
Our trained and uniformed volunteers fall within one of our three sections:
- Community Emergency Volunteer Unit - Our core operations
- National Emergency Resilience Support Unit - Our specialist nationalised teams who support our local Community Emergency Volunteers
- Headquarters - Non-operational teams that ensure CAVRA operations are running correctly.
If you are interested in joining our team, please visit the join us page for more information.

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