It is a voluntary community of faith whose decisions are not binding on member churches.
The voluntary, community and social enterprise sector is at the heart of this Government's mission to build a Big Society.
It is a voluntary community based group that addresses issues regarding zonings, residential/commercial development, land use and education.
The consultation invites views from a wide range of stakeholders which include the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and other government departments.
Polyarchy: a manifesto Polyarchy as empowerment of free individuals and voluntary communities.
Their collective witness demanded the church be an entirely voluntary, non-coercive community able to evangelise in a pluralistic society governed by a purely civil state.
A democratic society like ours, a community of voluntary mobile communities, leaves a random report of its past.
In an anarcho-capitalist society, voluntary communities might provide such grants.
The College describes itself as a 'voluntary community' and its discipline system is based on the presumption that boys fundamentally want to be there.
Caspary recalled that establishing a voluntary lay community "relieved us from threats and difficulties with the church under which we lived at that time".