Local Trust - Trusting Local People

Key projects

We believe there is a need to put more power, resources and decision-making into the hands of local communities to enable them to transform and improve their lives and the places they live

Big Local

Find out what happens when 150 communities are given at least £1m with no strings attached

Creative Civic Change

Discover a new approach to funding using arts and creativity to make positive local change

Community Wealth Fund

Join the alliance calling for a multi-billion pound national endowment to support deprived communities

Local thinking

Local Trust is leading new approaches to community-led change

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Organising and deciding

Developing Potential

Listen: putting communities at the heart of regeneration

Voices of Big Local

What does a neighbourly response look like?

Community spirit Coronavirus Health and wellbeing

Building community wealth in neighbourhoods

Exploring community wealth building in the context of Big Local

Local economies

Local economies Power and leadership

Where’s the community in community wealth building?

Putting people at the heart of local economies

The Courage to Succeed: the people behind the essay

Louise Tickle explores the stories from her essay

Long reads

Discover our essay series exploring how people and places are changing through Big Local, and the potential of community-led change

The Courage to Succeed

Taking action to make a change

Louise Tickle

How Big Local areas are levelling the scales of local power

David Boyle

A level playing field

How sport can unite and transform communities

Ryan Herman

Why communities are investing in young people’s futures

Antony Mason

Creating the future

Art, communities and change

Maddy Costa

Building wealth

How communities are reshaping the economy from the bottom up

Hazel Sheffield

Designs on the past

What can history do for hard-pressed communities?

Carey Newson

The collapse and revival of England’s social infrastructure

Dan Gregory

Community Spirits

The changing role
of faith in place

Stephen Bates

New seeds beneath the snow?

Big Local neighbourhoods in action

Julian Dobson

The grammar of change

Big Local neighbourhoods in action

David Boyle

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Community spirit

Culture and creativity

Health and wellbeing

Local economies

Organising and deciding

Power and leadership

Spaces and services

Hear from the communities

I’ve always been a volunteer, but I’ve learned through being involved with Big Local that change really is possible. But to make that change happen, having a voice is important

Sarah Rook

DY10 Big Local

What I’m clear about is that a good community development officer works themselves out of a job. You’re not supposed to be there forever – you’re there to build the community to do it for themselves

Val Fendley

Ramsey Million Big Local

We live in really challenging times economically, socially, politically, and so I credit anyone who gives up their time

George Hill

Kingswood and Hazel Leys

Voices of Big Local