The Big Society’s Big Mouth initiative will question young people through online and local community action events, culminating with young people taking their proposals for change to government in April.
Research conducted ahead of today’s launch (1 February), which polled more than 1,000 16- to 24-year-olds, found more than two-thirds of respondents don't know what the big society means for them, with only a quarter having heard of the agenda.
Almost half (46 per cent) said they don't trust the government to make the right cuts. More than a third of the young people (36 per cent) feel the coalition cares less about them than the previous government.
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