Businesses respond to the Government's aspiration of the Big Society
"Our Leadership Survey tells us that 77% of business leaders say they could do more to scale-up strategic support for communities across their business, and we hope that the Government’s Big Society agenda will provide the opportunity we have all been waiting for to increase the scale and impact of this support. We have been working with the Government identify the barriers to increasing business engagement and unleashing the creativity and enthusiasm that we already know exists in UK companies."
"As part of Business in the Community’s follow up to our Leadership Summit with HRH The Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister in December, we are organising a series of special Seeing is Believing visits around the country under the banner of Transforming Business, Transforming Communities.
"The aim of this programme is to explore and showcase successful examples of business action in local communities that tackles the most pressing social issues, in order that these solutions can be replicated and developed in other places.
"We hope that this will encourage cross-fertilisation of ideas between locations. You are welcome to nominate a senior colleague to attend visits as well to gain insights into more than one example.
Stephen Howard, chief executive Business in the Community
