ABSTRACT
Investigating the particular challenges in managing voluntary youth organizations, we need to first acknowledge the breadth and diversity of the third sector, which ranges from small neighbourhood projects to large, national and international bodies. These can be classified by their primary function, such as delivering services, mutual aid, or campaigning; or by their beneficiaries, their activity or even by the way they are resourced and controlled. However, one of the common features of voluntary, not for profit, bodies is how they are seen to contrast with public and private bodies on the basis of their governance, missions and values (Courtney 2002).
