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Gordon Brown speech for Community Links Charity; - I've seen new associations, from mother and toddler groups and sports clubs to organisations for the elderly and many informal networks have emerged to reflect community needs in a new era - Indeed everywhere I have travelled I have been encouraged and inspired by meeting and listening to concerned individuals wanting to do more to make their neighbourhoods safe and strong / People who offer their hearts and their hands, day in and day out, year in and year out - The mothers and fathers helping with the local football team, lending a hand at their school, helping with Comic Relief fundraising, joining the local campaigns to reduce waste or recycle or improve pavements and parks / Young people mentoring younger pupils, collecting toys or clothes for children who need them more - their energy, their ideas, their devotion, everyday changing our country - Some of their activities may be new to our times, but they are all rooted in the timeless values of the good society / A society where we all feel a part of, and play a part in, something bigger than ourselves - And it is in these millions of quiet, often unheralded deeds of commitment and acts of humanity that never draw attention to themselves that we can see the greatness of Britain / And today we need these deeds, these strengths - Britain, as a changing society, faces serious challenges from terrorism and security to environmental change and the huge global restructuring of our economy and in that sense the British way of life is under pressure - But whether in peace or in war, Britain, as a society, is endlessly resilient, adaptive and never broken / And we know that we do best when we mobilise all the strengths of Britain and most of all the strengths of our people - My belief is there is no weakness in Britain today that cannot be addressed by the strengths of Britain today / No problem so big in Britain that it cannot be fixed by what's best in the B...