Newcastle CVS

The Big Society is the overarching concept that encompasses the Government's policies to redistribute power from the state to society; and from the centre to local communities, and to give people the opportunity to take more control over their lives. Here are some resources and links for Big Society.

Resources - publications, briefings and toolkits

• Big Society not big government document published by the Conservatives in March 2010
• Building the big society - the coalition government's outline of the Big Society programme May 2010
• Ten Big Questions about the Big Society: and ten ways to make the best of it - a publication from the New Economics Foundation June 2010

Useful links

• Big Society network website
• Big Society network blog
• Our Society - a grassroots response to the Big Society government policy
• Big Society links from NAVCA

Community organising

• Community organising...starting the debate March 2011 - a report from Newcastle CVS's event in March to gather the view of Newcastle's VCS about community organising
• Locality
• Spinning Plates - the blog of Jesse Steele who is managing Locality's community organising programme