We have the Good Society. Now make it Big | The Times

Instead of small charities nimbly stepping into the State?s shoes, private sector bureaucracy has strangled them

The death of the Big Society, proclaimed this week by the head of an organisation that represents 2,000 charities, has been a bit overdone. The Big Society was alive and well long before the phrase was coined by Steve Hilton, David Cameron?s strategist. It was alive in churches and sports clubs, in parish councils, magistrates courts and school governing bodies. It was thriving in social enterprises such as the Oxo Tower in London, which ploughs profits from its restaurants back into its social housing.

The Government wanted to turbocharge this altruistic energy and apply it to public services. But the

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