Tag Archives: Big Society
The Big Lunch: Feeding Community Spirit
Since 2009, LGiU has been analysing the social impact of The Big Lunch. We wanted to understand where Lunches took place, who participated and the difference that this made in communities. What we discovered was profound. Through the simple act of …
Civil Society Innovation Network: session 3
The third session of the LGiU’s Civil Society Innovation Network took place on 23 February, at the Department for Communities and Local Government, to discuss the challenges and implications of the Localism Act. The Network heard from: DCLG discussed …
New approaches in an age of massive demographic change
Towards the end of last year, I spent some time travelling around the country meeting council leaders and chief executives to find out about new approaches in an age of massive demographic change. In the next few months, working jointly …
How will the web change social action on a local level?
This guest post from Luke Bozier is part of the Civil Society Innovation Network series Regardless of how much stick the Big Society has gotten over time, there is a vibrant, buzzing, healthy social/community action ecosystem in Britain today. There …
Public Administration Select Committee: report on the Big Society
Today, the Public Administration Select Committee has published their report examining the role of the Government in enabling the development of the Big Society. The report pretty much sums up what we in local government have been saying for months: …
Civil Society Innovation Network: event 1, part 3
This is the final of three blogs on the first event of our new Civil Society Innovation Network. Part 1 included videos from Lord Adebowale from Turning Point. The second post focused on the Ministerial address by Andrew Stunell MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary …
Civil Society Innovation Network: event 1, part 2
This is the second blog of three on the first event of our new Civil Society Innovation Network. Part 1 included videos from Lord Adebowale from Turning Point. This second post focuses on the Ministerial address by Andrew Stunell MP, Parliamentary …
Civil Society Innovation Network: event 1, part 1
This is the first blog of three on the first event of our new Civil Society Innovation Network. Part 2 will focus on the Ministerial address by Andrew Stunell MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. The first session of the Civil …
Civil Society Innovation Network
It is a long while since the term, ‘The Big Society’ first graced the pages of our blog. Since then many councils have wholeheartedly embraced the Big Society concept; others have been more tentative in taking on the terminology. But …
A Rights Based View of the Big Society
Social, economic and cultural rights have a particular significance during a period when budgetary pressures are forcing through changes in public services at a pace that makes consultation and participation difficult, presents unique challenges in balancing priorities and interests, and …
