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Big Local is an exciting opportunity for residents in 150 areas to create lasting change in their communities.
Essential guidance, information and ideas for Big Local partnerships, to help you deliver change in your community.
Find out how the principles of Big Local have inspired other programmes creating change in local communities.
Community Leadership Academy
Supporting volunteers involved in Big Local projects to develop their skills and knowledge.
Creative Civic Change
This new approach to funding enabled communities to use art and creativity to make positive local change.
The latest news and stories from Big Local areas and beyond, exploring community power and resident-led change.
News
The latest news and announcements from Local Trust and the Big Local programme.
Podcasts
Conversations exploring the most important issues affecting communities today.
Blogs
Ideas and insights about Big Local and the impact of community-led change.
Voices of Big Local
Inspiring stories from the people making change happen in their communities.
Explore the continuing development of our Big Local hypothesis through reports, blogs and briefings that cover the entire length of the programme
Volunteering in times of crisis and beyond.
Blending formal and informal ways of working.
An inquiry into resident-led decision making in the Big Local programme
The role of informal community activity.
Helping us understand and support Big Local partnerships
Community resilience or resourcefulness?
Measuring the impact of Big Local
How will communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 crisis?
Exploring community wealth building in the context of Big Local