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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.

Coronavirus response

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

research
Community power: the evidence

Moving towards a community-led system of public services
Organising and deciding Power and leadership
blog
Organising and deciding Power and leadership
The Community Paradigm: a movement more mainstream than you...

Matt Leach responds to new research commissioned by Local Trust
blog
March 2021
Budget 2021 – does it deliver for communities?
Local economies Spaces and services
blog
January 2021
Towards resilience: strengthening the systems that failed us
Coronavirus
event
Towards resilience: communities and green spaces

How can communities help green spaces become more available?

Wednesday 10 March
12-1pm
Online
Online event

Long reads

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

| Big Local
Community responses in times of crisis

Glimpses into the past, present and future

Steve Wyler
| Big Local
The Courage to Succeed

Taking action to make a change

Louise Tickle
| Big Local
Counterweight

How Big Local areas are levelling the scales of local power

David Boyle
| Big Local
A level playing field

How sport can unite and transform communities

Ryan Herman
| Big Local
Beyond age

Why communities are investing in young people’s futures

Antony Mason

| Big Local
Creating the future

Art, communities and change

Maddy Costa
| Big Local
Building wealth

How communities are reshaping the economy from the bottom up

Hazel Sheffield
| Big Local
Designs on the past

What can history do for hard-pressed communities?

Carey Newson
| Big Local
Skittled out?

The collapse and revival of England’s social infrastructure

Dan Gregory
| Big Local
Community Spirits

The changing role
of faith in place

Stephen Bates
| Big Local
New seeds beneath the snow?

Big Local neighbourhoods in action

Julian Dobson
| Big Local
The grammar of change

Big Local neighbourhoods in action

David Boyle

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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
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