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The Big Society
How the Big Society agenda affects the voluntary sector, key milestones in its evolution, and reaction from sector experts. Plus, people working in voluntary organisations and local government give their views on the big society in a survey commissioned by Third Sector and Local Government Chronicle.
Comment & Interviews
Editorial: Is this bye-bye to the big society? Ministers are scaling down their references to what may have been little more than a political slogan that got completely out of hand, says Stephen Cook
Interview: Paul Boissier The RNLI chief executive tells David Ainsworth that he likes the idea of the big society but his charity's tax bill has gone up and the VAT relief system for charities makes little sense
Interview: John Mohan The deputy director of the Third Sector Research Centre tells John Plummer about its research that challenges some of the thinking behind the big society agenda
Interview: 'The charity world is changing' One year since the government came to power, the Minister for Civil Society, Nick Hurd, tells Kaye Wiggins he is sympathetic about cuts but determined to press on with the big society agenda
Editorial: Is the big society a state of mind? Commentators calling for more schemes and specifics may be missing the point, writes Stephen Cook
The evolution of the Big Society
Nick Hurd affirms government's commitment to 'big society vision'
The Minister for Civil Society has set out the government's flagship objectives in an open letter to the voluntary sector
Interview: Nick Hurd
Programmes and initiatives for the voluntary sector have multiplied since last year's Tory gathering focused on the big society. Kaye Wiggins asks the Minister for Civil Society about his priorities and John Plummer looks at the policy details
Analysis: Big society adviser decides to move on
Lord Wei leaves the stage after a harsh year in the spotlight
Cameron renews big society vows
Prime Minister tells launch of the Giving White Paper that stronger communities and relationships make life worth living
Banks missed 'historic opportunity' to support voluntary sector
Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard says new law is needed to force banks to improve lending and support to charities
Most think the big society will not be achieved, poll suggests
Survey by nfpSynergy finds that only 9 per cent think government's flagship policy will do what it claims
Liverpool City Council quits big society vanguard
It says funding cuts and job losses that will 'cut the lifeline' to voluntary groups
Analysis: Big society under pressure
Nick Hurd says the flagship agenda is 'alive and well', despite criticism from members of his own party
Big society idea 'divides the Cabinet and is loathed by the public'
Big Society Network co-founder Paul Twivy tells NCVO conference that people struggle to understand the concept
Great and the good line up to keep tabs on big society
Acevo sets up panel to scrutinise the government's flagship initiative
Big society will be broken by spending cuts, says think tank report
New Economics Foundation says the voluntary sector faces an impossible task in filling the void left by the state
Analysis: Big society is the hot topic at the Conservative Party conference
Fringe events at this year's conference attempted to define the concept of big society
Poll shows less than half of charities have faith in Cameron's big society
A Charities Aid Foundation survey says only a minority of charities believe the big society is achievable, even with sufficient funding
Building the big society will be 'arduous and filled with setbacks', warns Lord Wei
Government adviser outlines challenges in maiden speech in House of Lords
Coalition outlines plans for big society programme
David Cameron and Nick Clegg unveil proposals for a Big Society Bank and a national citizen service
Charities will run state services under Tories, says Cameron
Conservative leader sets out his vision of a smaller state, complemented by a 'big society'
The Big Society Survey
Results and analysis of people working in voluntary organisations and local government, commissioned by Third Sector and Local Government Chronicle.
Survey reveals scepticism over big society's potential
Council staff 'more optimistic' overall than those in voluntary sector
The big society: We'll have a go ... but what is it?
A survey by Third Sector and the Local Government Chronicle indicates that people who work in the voluntary sector and local government are not sure what the big society is, but are trying to make sense of it nonetheless. Stephen Cook reports
The Big Society: survey results
A round-up of the results from the big society survey commissioned by Third Sector and Local Government Chronicle
The Big Society Survey: what they said
A selection of the hundreds of comments made by respondents to the survey
Local government 'more optimistic' about big society than voluntary sector
Survey by Third Sector and the Local Government Chronicle finds difference in attitudes to government's flagship idea
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- Date: Tue 29 May 2012 - Tue 29 May 2012
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- Date: Wed 30 May 2012 - Wed 30 May 2012
- Venue: St Albans Centre, Leigh Place, Baldwins Gardens, Holborn, London, EC1N 7AB.
