The new appointments include politicians, journalists, and business leaders and will work with the NCS executive leadership team to "make sure as many teenagers as possible get to experience NCS".
They include Labour peer Lord Alli, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Floella Benjamin and Conservative peer Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge, as well as former troubled families tsar Dame Louise Casey, journalist Robert Peston, the chief executive of Barnardo's Javed Khan, and YouTube entrepreneur Jamal Edwards.
The NCS first launched in 2011, initially to a few thousand young people, but provision has been expanding each year, with the government setting aside around £1.2bn to deliver NCS up to 2020.
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