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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/big-society-not-cuts-in-disguise.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="David Cameron has denied the Big Society is simply a cover for Government spending cuts" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-big-society-not-cuts-in-disguise.jpg" alt="David Cameron has denied the Big Society is simply a cover for Government spending cuts"/></a></p>
<p>David Cameron has fought back against accusations that his vision of the Big Society is simply a &#8220;cover&#8221; for Government spending cuts.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister said that his initiative to hand power to local communities and voluntary organisations was intended to change the way Britain was run.</p>
<p>He acknowledged however that at a time of spending restraint, it would benefit society if people were prepared to volunteer more.</p>
<p>&#8220;Building a stronger, bigger society is something we should try and do whether spending is going up or down,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;But there is a broader point to be made. As the state spends less and does less &#8211; which would be happening whichever party was in government &#8211; there would be a positive benefit if some parts of society were to step forward and do more.&#8221;</p>
<p>His intervention came after Dame Elisabeth Hoodless &#8211; who is standing down as executive director of Community Service Volunteers, Britain&#8217;s biggest volunteering charity &#8211; warned that spending cuts could obliterate the existing volunteer base.</p>
<p>Writing in The Observer, Mr Cameron insisted that ministers were opening up billions of pounds worth government contracts so that charities and social enterprises can compete for the first time.</p>
<p>&#8220;The scale of this opportunity dwarfs anything they&#8217;ve ever had before,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>He acknowledged however that &#8220;while the opportunity lies in the future&#8221;, local councils were seeing their budgets cut now.</p>
<p>In order to bridge the gap, he said that next week ministers would be launching a transition fund to help charities bid for bid those contracts and a Big Society bank to provide some working capital for the successful applicants.</p>
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