The youth sector is slap-bang in the middle of the big society and its fate is set to be closely entwined with David Cameron's favourite buzz phrase. Conservative politicians talk of unprecedented opportunity and freedom for community groups, while Labour and the unions warn it's merely a smokescreen for cuts. Research by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) suggests that 36 per cent of charities are surviving month-to-month without any cash reserves. In a recent interview with the Financial Times, NCVO deputy chief executive Ben Kernighan said that the "scale of the cuts risks making a lot of groups go bust very quickly". But what do the local level youth organisations that David Cameron has sought to woo think?
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