Skip to main content
  1. Home

Search all content

256 results

256 results sorted by Relevance
  • Pioneering microfinance business wins Big Society Award

    Fair Finance, a social business which helps individuals and businesses access finance, is a Big Society Award winner, the PM has announced.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Big data: big opportunity, big brother or big trouble?

    Presentation by Sir Mark Walport on the potential benefits and risks of big data.

    • Updated:
  • Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister’s speeches at Big Society launch

    Speeches given by Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at the launch of the Big Society programme.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Livity wins Big Society Award

    Brixton based youth engagement agency improves lives of young people, creating opportunities for their voices to be heard.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Big Society: opening up Parliament to the people

    The coalition government has launched the first stage of plans to give the public the right to comment on every aspect of new legislation.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • CREATE wins Prime Minister’s Big Society Award

    CREATE - a not-for-profit company in Yorkshire which delivers innovative training and employment opportunities for people who have been homeless, marginalised or vulnerable - is the second winner of the Prime Minister's Big Society Award.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Norfolk village dedicated to Olympic legacy wins Big Society Award

    People in Hethersett, Norfolk have worked to improve residents' fitness and wellbeing and local facilities to keep the Olympic legacy alive.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 'Shwopping' scheme wins Big Society Award

    Marks & Spencer’s scheme reducing amount of clothing in landfill sites is latest Big Society Award winner.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • World health day – small bite, big threat

    PHE urge people to be cautious with Lyme disease, transmitted by ticks.

    • Updated:
  • i-Probono wins Big Society Award

    Online lawyers network i-Probono wins Prime Minister's Big Society Award.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Ministers take part in the Big Iftar at mosques across the country

    Eric Pickles and Baroness Warsi attended Big Iftar events on Saturday 27 July.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Digi Steps from Bournemouth are the latest Big Society Award winners

    Digi Steps, a social enterprise run by school pupils who wanted to share their internet and computer skills with senior citizens in their area, are the latest winners of the Prime Minister's Big Society Award.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Francis Maude speech to Policy Exchange - The Big Data Opportunity

    Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude made a speech about the government's approach to open data and transparency.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Hypothesis generation and visualisation from big data

    Case study from the University of Sheffield who pitched their ideas to industry and investors at the CDE Marketplace on 6 September 2016.

    • Updated:
  • Big Society innovation aims to get families out of deprivation

    A major trial of Social Impact Bonds, an innovative new way to fund intensive help for families was announced by Nick Hurd.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Nominate your Big Society champion

    The Prime Minister has launched the new Big Society awards to recognise some of the excellent work going on across the country.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Tim Loughton responds to 'Daily Telegraph' story on the Big Society

    The Children's Minister writes in response to the Daily Telegraph article, 'Minister: What is the Big Society? Is it Anne Widdecombe?'.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Making sense of big data to improve the nation’s defence, security and prosperity

    Dstl challenges data scientists to solve real world challenges in first public competition

    • Updated:
  • Nat Wei appointed as Big Society adviser

    Nat Wei has been appointed as the new government adviser on Big Society and will take up a seat in the House of Lords.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Serve wins Prime Minister's Big Society Award

    Rushden based charity Serve is the latest winner of the Prime Minister's Big Society Award.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government