Here’s a new paper from NCIA member Adrian Barritt who highlights the fundamental choices that CVSs must make to respond to cuts and the Big Society Show. Adrian argues that joining up into bigger structures, which appears be the developing response, will undermine people’s ability to be locally rooted, self reliant, creative and flexible. The paper gives a whistlestop tour of philosophical and political ideas to argue that CVSs can stay independent and can work out other ways of coping. Let us know what you think of the issues raised in the paper. What choices are you facing in your organisation? What are you doing and can you share your approach with others in the NCIA network?