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  • 16 Nov 2010
    Christians say cuts-based Big Society is ‘a Big Lie’

    A group of Christians in public life, including ministers and theologians, have launched a new network to oppose government cuts in public spending and welfare provision. They criticise the Coalition’s ‘Big Society’ rhetoric as vacuous and misleading.

  • 9 Nov 2010
    Government challenged over 'ground up' change in local communities

    Fifty national civic organisations have called on the government to respond to ideas put forward a year ago under the Sustainable Communities Act.

  • 5 Nov 2010
    Archbishop's warning over cuts and the Big Society

    The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams today (Friday) issued a warning to Government over the impact of cuts

  • 24 Oct 2010
    Follow the Gospel, resist the cuts

    For some Christians, coalition cuts and the "Big Society" are an opportunity for churches to extend their influence by taking over services run by the state. But the Gospel is not about increasing our own influence. In seeking to love our neighbours as ourselves, we need to be ready to stand up and resist a vicious assault on the welfare state.

  • 8 Oct 2010
    Dream of Big Society conceals a nightmare, say Greens

    Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has said that Prime Minister David Cameron's dream of a Big Society is “hiding a nightmare of socially devastating cuts”.

  • 17 Sep 2010
    Faith groups, social provision and the 'big society'
  • 30 Jul 2010
    The 'Big Society': Rory Stewart should try harder

    The parliamentary constituency of Penrith and the Border is both the largest and the most sparsely populated in England.

  • 22 Jun 2010
    Big society, small cash?

    We need to be vigilant to be sure that budget day is not also doomsday for local communities, especially the vulnerable for whom community and faith organisations exist, says Vaughan Jones, probing behind the government's 'big society' rhetoric and asking how the civil sector will be resourced and supported in a constrained market environment.