A Year of Service highlights the voluntary service that people of faith carry out in their local communities, forging links between volunteers.

Throughout 2012 there are 12 Days of Volunteering, each coinciding with a religious festival or existing volunteering day, and each focusing on a particular social action theme.

Each faith community in turn is promoting its own day or days in neighbourhoods and businesses, and inviting people from other faiths or without religious beliefs to join in.