TCV is a social enterprise group supporting 628,0000 people to think and act differently to improve their environment. With staff of 700, the charity's annual income is £34.5m (as of March 2011).

In June 2011 TCV, under its former name BTCV, won a Charity Award in the Environment and Conservation category for its Carbon Army campaign which worked to fight climate change at a local level. The campaign saw 6,000 days of environmental action on climate change  successfully completedin just three weeks by mobilising thousands of people into action.

TCV’s four-year strategic aim is to invest in a better environment and improve 75,000 places; to actively support 1.5 million people to become environmentally active citizens; to provide opportunities for 500,000 to improve health and wellbeing; and to move 50,000 people into employment.