Talk:Voluntary sector

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This Voluntary Sector page has been redirected from a page called Third Sector. Clearly they are not the same thing. Can we have a Third Sector page and a voluntary sector page? The Voluntary sector is one part of what is seen as the third sector that aslo includes Co-ops, social enterprise etc.

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There is no standard internationally recognised and agreed definition of voluntary sector, voluntary organisation, community group, third sector, social enterprise, non profit organisation, NGO etc which provides neat boundaries between each one of these and the others. We could debate the boundaries between one and another ad infinitum. Social enterprise can be seen as part of the voluntary sector. A charity shop is social enterprise, for example, falling within a voluntary organisation. By the way, I don't know who set up the redirection above and I am not directly commenting on that.

Cheddington2001 12:24, 6 July 2006 (UTC)