The Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) was always on hand to provide cups of tea and other refreshments where they were needed.

Most WVS members tended to be older women as young women were too busy working long shifts in factories or on the land. The WVS did whatever was needed. In some areas they provided refreshments and someone to talk to in the underground shelters or after air raids. They helped shocked people whose homes had been bombed and provided fire fighters with tea and refreshments when the clear-up took place after a bombing raid.

When the WVS were not on call, they knitted socks and balaclavas for service men. Some WVS groups adopted a sailor and provided him with warm knitted clothing.