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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pm-urges-firms-to-back-communities.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="David Cameron addresses the Business in the Community Annual General Meeting and Leadership Summit in central London" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-pm-urges-firms-to-back-communities.jpg" alt="David Cameron addresses the Business in the Community Annual General Meeting and Leadership Summit in central London"/></a></p>
<p>David Cameron re-stated the aims of his &#8220;Big Society&#8221; initiative as he challenged businesses to support their communities.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister told senior executives from some of Britain&#8217;s biggest firms that the country needed the &#8220;commitment, the creativity and innovation of businesses to help tackle the challenges that confront us&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Cameron&#8217;s comments came as he gave the keynote speech at the annual general meeting of the charity Business in the Community (BITC) which has the Prince of Wales as its president.</p>
<p>He also announced two new projects, the first &#8211; &#8216;Every Business Commits&#8217; &#8211; is a set of five priorities participating firms would honour, from reducing carbon output and improving their workers&#8217; skills to, what the politician described as the perhaps the most crucial, &#8220;supporting&#8221; the community.</p>
<p>The politician also said he wanted to see the number of people seconded from business to work for a year in their neighbourhoods to increase to 1,000.</p>
<p>The Big Society initiative has been dogged by the problem of some people not understanding what the concept means and last month even children&#8217;s minister Tim Loughton admitted this applied to coalition ministers.</p>
<p>But Mr Cameron emphasised how firms across the country can play an important part in delivering its aims.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister said: &#8220;We need the commitment, the creativity and innovation of businesses to help tackle the challenges that confront us.</p>
<p>&#8220;Whether it is worklessness or obesity, whether it&#8217;s the break-up of families or the breakdown of communities, from environmental damage to economic dislocation.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;I simply cannot think of an area of public policy where the creative thinking of business wouldn&#8217;t help us to deliver a better outcome.&#8221;</p>
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