Expressions of Interest: Provision of bespoke support and management of Liverpool community health learning project
Local Trust is seeking an organisation or collective to administer and manage grant funding for an ambitious health and wellbeing impact-and-influence project in the Liverpool City Region. The successful organisation(s) will work with and provide support to a cluster of six resident-led community organisations and associations across five Big Local areas to embed their legacy, evaluate their impact and share key learning from 10+ years of delivering community-led initiatives through Big Local.
Called the Liverpool Beacons project, it will unite five Big Local areas to evidence their collective health and wellbeing impact using participatory ripple-mapping, share learning with stakeholders, and strengthen the consortium’s long-term sustainability. And while each Big Local area took a different approach, collectively they want to demonstrate the value of community-led approaches to health, connection and wellbeing, with the ambition of influencing public services and policymakers to adopt, embed and invest in these approaches across the Liverpool City Region.
You’d be working with a cluster of six resident-led organisations across five areas in Liverpool City Region, developed through the Big Local programme, to evaluate their impact and share key learning from 10+ years of delivering community led initiatives.
The funding will run from May 2026 for 9 to 12 months against priorities identified by the Liverpool Beacons cluster and Local Trust, which include:
- Growing Local Capacity and Community-Led Evidence – coordinate with local community workers and volunteers to actively engage and recruit residents into community-led evaluation work and combine this with Ripple Effect Mapping to build strong community capacity and generate robust evidence to inform future strategy, investment, and long‑term impact.
- Consortium development and shared learning – establish and support a consortium bringing together the six organisations to share learning, best practice, and resources, and to maximise the value of their collective experience, assets and leadership.
- Learning, influence and system change – to work with the consortium to share learning and evidence of impact through a coordinated learning and influence campaign.
- Futureproofing and sustainability – to support each organisation to develop a mixed funding strategy, with a focus on income generation, organisational resilience and capacity building.
How to apply
Please find full details below in the invitation document, including submission requirements.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted to programmes@localtrust.org.uk by 12pm, Monday 23 March 2026.