Keep Connected with Big Local: Legacy and close out
OnlineExplore how you can navigate the topics of post-Big Local legacy and close out
69 events found.
London regional cluster
OnlineRegional clusters help groups of Big Local areas that are geographically close to one another to meet up, share learning and to network
Understanding community development
OnlineUnderstanding community development values, principles, and approaches helps strengthen the great work being done in your Big Local area.
Community assets: Management and sustainability beyond Big Local
Wargrave Big Local Community Hub, 143 Alder Street, Newton-Le-Willows, WA12 8HR Wargrave Big Local Community Hub, 143 Alder Street,, Wargrave Big Local Community Hub, 143 Alder Street, Newton-Le-Willows, United KingdomCome and explore community asset management and sustainability beyond Big Local funding
Big Local chairs network: Working effectively with volunteer board members
OnlineIn this online session, chairs will have an opportunity to explore some of the challenges of working with volunteer board members
What is possible? A look at the fundraising landscape
OnlineFundraising can seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t need to be. Learn about the funding landscape in this session.
Keep Connected with Big Local: Working with Local Authorities and Housing Associations
OnlineAt this Keep Connected event, understand how to better influence, work with and even just effectively connect with your Local Authority or housing association.
Masterclass – Be a Whizz at Canva
Make social media graphics, animations and videos using Canva
Community Engagement – The START Approach
OnlineJoin us to START – The Heart of Your Community , a half day interactive training exploring the START approach of energizing work in your community.
Big Local Chairs Network: Why having fun is important to delivering your plans
OnlineChairs will have an opportunity to explore session 4's topic together - Why having fun is important to delivering your plans.
Public Sector Contracts – How to Find Them, Win Them and Deliver Them
OnlineThis session will explore the potential opportunities to secure income from public contracts and deliver vital products and services in your area.
Keep Connected with Big Local: Mental Health and Mindfulness
OnlineA chance to take a break from the day and come together for a mental health check-in and learn new ways of supporting yourself and others
BLT bite-size: Recharging your batteries
OnlineGrab your lunch and join Julia, to get ready for some expert tips on how to recharge your batteries & create space & calm in a busy mind
Keep Connected with Big Local: Barriers to community participation
OnlineGet a taste for what being a member of Community Practitioners Network is like, with a session exploring how to take ownership over projects and get the community involved.
Crowdfunding 101: From getting started to hitting your target
OnlineAn introduction to crowdfunding: a straightforward fundraising method that can help you bring an idea, project or business to life.
Communications masterclass: Bring your social media to life
OnlineWant to inject some creativity into your social media work? Join this masterclass for some inspiration and tips to bring your social media content to life.
Worker network: Where would you like the worker network to take you?
WorkplaceIn this Workplace Live event, we'll be kicking off the workers network by introducing you to what we've planned and asking 'where would you like the network to take you?'.
How to engage communities
OnlineThis CPD accredited course explores how to do really great community engagement and will leave you with a toolkit of ideas.
Understanding & Celebrating your Big Local achievements with your community
OnlineFind out engaging ways to get feedback from residents in your Big Local area and how to share your achievements back to the wider community.
Raising investment through community shares
OnlineAn introduction to this unique form of equity finance that can build stronger, more vibrant and independent communities
Worker Network – Wellbeing In Times Of Uncertainty
OnlineThis session will be facilitated by our partners Peas in a Pod and is specifically designed for those in a Big Local Worker role.
Looking Beyond the Foodbank: Creating a Collaborative Community Food System
In person , United KingdomAn event to share ideas and experiences, gain inspiration and develop tools to begin new, exciting food journeys in your community
Find your voice residential at Wembley Central
Patidar House, 22 London Rd, Wembley HA9 7EX Patidar House, 22 London Rd, Wembley, LondonThis two-day residential event is themed around communications and storytelling. It will include practical workshops and lots of opportunities...
Bid Writing – 6 steps to success!
OnlineBid writing can often be overwhelming to navigate. Join this workshop and learn, step by step, how to choose, prepare and write for funding.
Worker Network: Communicating with your partnership about closing out
WorkplaceIn this Workplace Live event, we'll be hosting a quick fire session examining the power of influence, importance of rapport, flexible communication and more.
Community enterprise and social value
OnlineIn this session the Stir to Action team will look at trade-based income opportunities and explore how your business can contribute to creating a more resilient local economy.
Youth voice event with Heston West Big Local
Cranford Community CollegeDiscuss, share, and learn about youth engagement and participation with other Big Locals
Workers network – Closing out with confidence
TheStudio 7 Cannon St, Birmingham B2 5EP, Birmingham, United KingdomThis in-person event will be a deep dive into closing out with confidence for Big Local workers, facilitated by our partners Peas in a Pod.
Communications masterclass: Top tips for getting positive media coverage
OnlineWant to spread the word far and wide about all the amazing work of your Big Local? Join Peg Alexander for a 90-minute media masterclass.
Community assets: Managing and sustaining beyond Big Local
Coin Street Conference Centre 108 Stamford St, London, London, United KingdomBig Local areas across England have been making substantial investments in local community assets. From community hubs and gardens...
Big Local Connects 2023
East Midlands Conference Centre Beeston Ln, Nottingham, United KingdomThank you for making #TheFinalConnects an amazing success!
Big Local chairs network: Admire and inspire – a spotlight on you
OnlineIn this session, Chairs will have an opportunity to reflect, explore and discuss personal achievements of being in a Chair’s role as the majority of Big Local areas start to approach the close out phase.
Speedy support sessions with Locality
Do you have questions about becoming a legal body, or building, taking over and managing an asset? Book a 45 minute session with expert Locality advisors, to get answers to your questions now.
Speedy support sessions: Fundraising
OnlineAdvice on how to approach a fundraising strategy? Ideas about grant funding opportunities? Come join Stir to Action for a 1-1 chat.
Big Local Chairs Network – Reducing Overwhelm by Taking Control
OnlineChairs will have an opportunity to explore how they can lighten their workload by shifting their focus away from the demands
Speedy support sessions with Locality
OnlineLocality offers partnerships a 45-minute support session with advisors.
Big Local Chairs Network: Supporting People through Change
OnlineIn this session, Chairs will be introduced to tools they can use to support partnership members to navigate the...
Big Local Chairs Network: Creating Healthy Boundaries
OnlineIn this session, Chairs will have the opportunity to explore the importance of healthy boundaries and how to create...
Learning from research: tackling racism & promoting inclusion in Big Local
OnlineHear about research in two Big Local areas, into how partnerships planned to tackle racial inequality and promote racial...
Big Local Chairs Network
OnlineThe Chairs Networking meeting is an opportunity for you to meet with other Big Local Area Chairs and connect in a safe space.
Community Organisers Webinar – How to Reach, Involve and Connect with the Most Isolated
OnlineThis webinar will give you an overview to help you reach, involve, and connect with older people and the most isolated in the community.
Community Organisers Webinar – Community Power: Creating a Neighbourhood Prospectus
OnlineThis session, led by Nick Gardham, with contribution from Sacha Bedding from The Wharton Trust explores how the community organising work in Hartlepool has led to the community having more power.
Communications Masterclass Series: Planning your communications & bringing your close out story together
OnlineJoin us for the first part of our Communications Masterclass Series with Peg Alexander and Tamsin Curror.
Big Local Meetup, Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery Mosley St, ManchesterConnect with your Big Local peers for an evening and day, of learning and networking, focused on overcoming some of the common problems currently faced by Big Local areas.
Amazing Communities Together: Men’s health with CEO of ‘Mandem Meetup’
OnlineMen's health is an issue as men find it hard to talk about problems. This October join Amazing Communities together, for a closer look at the topic with Jamie from 'Mandem Meetup'
Big Local Meetup, London
Friends House, London 173-177 Euston Road, LondonConnect with your Big Local peers for an evening and day, of learning and networking, focused on overcoming some of the common problems currently faced by Big Local areas.
Communications Masterclass Series: How to manage your communications channels through close out
OnlineJoin us for the second part of our Communications Masterclass Series with Peg Alexander and Tamsin Curror.
Community Organisers Webinar: Using Applied Theatre to reimaging community engagement
OnlineThis mainly practical workshop will explore Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre practice within community settings.
Locality Convention
Mecure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel Portland St, ManchesterJoin community groups and organisations to be part of the biggest community sector event of the year.
Big Local Chairs Network
OnlineThe Chairs Networking meeting is an opportunity for you to meet with other Big Local Area Chairs and connect in a safe space.
Amazing Communities Together: Looking at Dental Deserts and the issues that people face with ‘Dentaid’
OnlineMany people are unable to access a dentist. This November join Amazing Communities Together to understand the challenge of Dental Deserts with Jill Harding from 'Dentaid'.
Communications Masterclass Series: Communications for new legacy organisations
OnlineJoin us for the final part of our Communications Masterclass Series with Peg Alexander and Tamsin Curror.
Community Organisers Webinar: Telling the Story of the Humanity Project
OnlineThis session will tell the story of the Humanity project and look at how it is has evolved.
Transitioning from a Big Local to an independent community organisation
OnlineJoin our support partner, Locality, for a 90 minute online and interactive masterclass, where they will cover transitioning from a Big Local partnership to an independent community organisation.
Community Organisers: Connecting Through Life Stories
OnlineCommunity Organisers invite you to take part in a Connecting Through Life Stories session with trained Facilitators: Karl Lam & Alima Adams.
Big Local Chairs Network
OnlineThe Chairs Networking meeting is an opportunity for you to meet with other Big Local Area Chairs and connect in a safe space.
Speedy Support Sessions: Centre for Sustainable Energy
OnlineNeed advice on how to approach energy efficiency in your area? Ideas about how to reduce energy bills? Come join CSE for a 1-1 chat.
Speedy Support Sessions: Fundraising
OnlineNeed advice on how to approach a fundraising strategy? Ideas about grant funding opportunities? Come join Stir to Action for a 1-1 chat.
Future Funding: The difference we made
OnlineJoin our support partners, Just Ideas’, for a 90-minute masterclass, where we will think about the impact your Big Local has made.
Future Funding: Business planning for beginners
OnlineJoin our support partners, Stir to Action, for a 90-minute masterclass, where they will cover the basics of business planning.
Community Organisers: Neighbourhood Identity and Place
OnlineThis webinar will explore the importance of identify in place-based organising.
Future Funding: Business planning – next steps
OnlineJoin our support partners, Stir to Action, for a 90-minute masterclass, where they will cover the next steps of business planning.
Future Funding: How to write stronger applications for grant funding
OnlineJoin our support partners, Stir to Action, for a 90-minute masterclass, where they will cover the process of bid writing.
Community Organisers: Enterprising Communities
OnlineThis webinar will explore the role community business can play in nurturing communities and strengthening bonds, but also in providing community-led services, employment, and investment in an area.
Big Local Chairs Network
OnlineThe Chairs Networking meeting is an opportunity for you to meet with other Big Local Area Chairs and connect in a safe space.
Supporting workers as your Big Local area closes out
OnlineLearn how to support workers as your Big Local area closes out with Peas in a Pod
Supporting workers as your Big Local area closes out
OnlineLearn how to support workers as your Big Local area closes out with Peas in a Pod
Amazing Communities Together: The Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis
OnlineMany people are struggling to make ends meet during the cost of living crisis. This April, join Amazing Communities Together to learn to support yourself with money worries with 'GamCare'.
Celebrating the end of your Big Local
OnlineFind out how to mark the end of your Big Local with Just Ideas