Elisabeth Hoodless

Dame Elisabeth Anne Marian Hoodless, (née Frost; born 11 February 1941) is a former Executive Director (1975–2011) of Community Service Volunteers (CSV, which was re-named Volunteering Matters in 2015.

She is also a former Labour councillor in North London, and a long-term Labour party member. She was a volunteer Youth court magistrate.

Hoodless is married and has two sons and two granddaughters. She lives in North London.

She is the author of Getting Money from Central Government.

History Hoodless attended Redland High School for Girls in Bristol and then studied at King's College, Durham (Durham University).

In 1962, Hoodless lived in Israel and taught Hebrew as a volunteer to French-speaking immigrants to prepare them for University. to 2011

Dame Elisabeth Hoodless received the Alec Dickson Award at the National Service-Learning Conference in 2009. The award is named for Dame Elisabeth's predecessor, Dr. Alec Dickson.