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Looking for inspiration for your next community project? Explore step-by-step project guides shared by Big Local areas, based on their own experiences.
Steps on organising a photography competition
Author
Karin Evangelides
Date
10 January 2020
Big Local Area
Grassland Hasmoor
How to set up social enterprise dinners
Samina Butt
06 December 2019
Bradley
Retraining residents to develop their skills and get back into work
Jan Macmillan
08 November 2019
Hateley Cross
How to start a community knitting group
Katy Sneyd
09 October 2019
Rudheath and Whitton Together
Step by step instructions on creating a book throne
John Maguire
19 September 2019
MyClubmoor
How to build a community shed on an allotment
Roy Howes
28 August 2019
North West Ipswich
Steps on organising an ice skating event
Bill Chatt
20 May 2019
Barrowcliff
Run an event to help people fix, rather than throw-away, their electronics
Julia Hines
Grange
Grays Riverside Big Local clear the shoreline of plastic every month
Steve Catchpole
02 May 2019
Grays Riverside
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