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Programme guidance

Everything you need to know about accessing Big Local funding and resources to support your area

Plans and activities
Toolkit
Tackle loneliness and isolation in your community: A community action plan

Download this community action plan for practical ways to help people experiencing loneliness and isolation in your community.

Workers
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Worker Development Programme

A development programme tailored to Big Local Workers

Gaining legal status LTOs Working as a partnership
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Big Local partnerships becoming, or setting up, their own locally trusted organisation

Guidance for Big Local partnerships setting up or becoming their own LTO

Gaining legal status
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Setting up a new legal body

Guidance for Big Local partnerships on how to set up a legal body

Plans and activities
Toolkit
A community response to loneliness

A handbook of tips, activities and inspiration for reducing loneliness

LTOs
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Assets and Big Local

Essential guidance on assets for Big Local partnerships

Communications and social media Community assets
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Using the Big Local name and logo

Thinking ahead to the end of the Big Local programme, Local Trust will be protecting the Big Local name and logo after 2026 to ensure it is not used inappropriately by organisations that have no legitimate connection to the programme.

Closing out and moving on: Essential guidance for LTOs and partnerships

Essential guidance to support Big Local partnerships and LTOs to close out and move on from the Big Local programme

Plans and activities
Toolkit
Find and access funding: A community action plan

Download our community action plan to help you find and access funding, developed in partnership with Stir to Action

Plans and activities
Toolkit
Retrofit your community building: A community action plan

Download our community action plan to help you retrofit your community building, developed in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Energy