Big Society Bank

By This Is Money
Updated: 10:00 BST, 11 February 2011

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The Daily Mail City team explain David Cameron's 計画（する） to use a Big Society Bank to give £400m to 地元の social 企業s and charities.

Visi on: David Cameron wants a Big Society

A mega credit union?

No, you're miles wide of the 示す. The Big Society Bank is far, far worthier than a mere building society. It's part of David Cameron's in-no-way-wooly 'Big Society' 事業／計画（する） to 抑えるのをやめる an army of socially-minded 国民s across the land.

And the bank?

The PM hasn't やめる worked out all the 詳細（に述べる）s yet but the 計画（する） is to use the Big Society Bank to give £400m to 地元の social 企業s and charities. They're running short of cash because of, ahem, Cameron's public spending 削減（する）s.

What the Lord giveth…

That would be a jaundiced way of 見解（をとる）ing this very 価値のある 演習. It'll be 'new' 基金s - rather than 再生利用するd money from spending 削減（する）s - that will 基金 the Big Society Bank. Some £200m will come from unclaimed 資産s, such as 活動停止中の bank accounts. RBS, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC are 与える／捧げるing the 残り／休憩（する）.

Can they afford it?

It'll be a stretch. 利益（をあげる）s, after all, are not what they used to be. But after 施し物ing out £5bn in 特別手当s, the Big Four are 確信して that there will be enough left over to help those いっそう少なく fortunate than themselves.

A big gesture

It is. The banks are fully 調印するd up members to the Eton-educated PM's political guiding light. We are indeed 'all in this together'.