Editing Voluntary sector (section)

===United Kingdom===
The [[Cabinet Office]] of the [[Her Majesty's Government|British government]] until 2010 had an Office of the Third Sector that defined the "third sector" as "the place between State and (the) private sector".<ref>Cabinet Office, [http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector UK definition of third sector]</ref> The Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government renamed the department the Office for Civil Society. The term third sector has now been replaced in Government usage by the term Civil Society, or for a while under the Cameron government, the term [[Big Society]], which was devised by political advisers and which featured prominently in the Conservative Party's 2010 election campaign.

Organisations leading and supporting the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom include the [[Acevo|Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations]] (Acevo), the [[National Council for Voluntary Organisations]], [[Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action]], [[Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations]], and [[Wales Council for Voluntary Action]].