A York businessman will meet Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street tomorrow to discuss creating a National Citizen Service.

The discussions will put Richard Bryan, managing director of Qa Research Ltd, of Brackenhill, in St George’s Place, York at the heart of Mr Cameron’s pledge to create “The Big Society”.

For the past five years Qa Research, which employs 35 staff, has been helping the Prince’s Trust to investigate ways of reducing re-offending in young people.

Its research paper, Breaking The Cycle Of Offending, recommended that offenders, when released, should be met and helped through their first night by ex-offenders who have successfully found their way back into society.

The Prince’s Trust launched the scheme at prisons in south-west England, and on the strength of its success Mr Bryan was invited in 2007 to attend the a conference which fed into the Mend Broken Britain campaign, espoused by the Conservative Party.

Mr Bryan joined a working group to form a National Citizen Service.

The group formulated ideas for a summer programme for 16-year-olds which aims to give them a rite of passage to adulthood.

Mr Bryan said: “The Prime Minister is now using the National Citizen Service as one of his flagship schemes to create The Big Society.

“The invitation is a big honour. I have never met Mr Cameron before and it speaks for the kind of influence my organisation can have for the whole country.”