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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.
Everything you need to know about accessing Big Local funding and resources to support your area
A code of conduct is a set of rules or standards setting out how you, as members of the Big Local partnership and/or those actively involved, agree to behave.
Quick and easy tech interventions at low cost and high impact
A new set of facilitation tools to help Big Local partnerships understand and address issues they might be facing
Get a better understanding of power and how it affects a Big Local partnership
Work with your partnership to make a plan for measuring change in your Big Local area.
Tackle a problem the Big Local partnership is stuck with.
Create understanding of our own power as individuals and organisations, and how to share it more fairly and effectively.
Draw out the difference between leading, managing and doing
Template and guidance for writing a press release
Big Local areas need to use the National Lottery Community Fund logo, plus either the Local Trust | Big Local logo or your local Big Local area logo if you have one
The go-to place for Big Local partnerships to find the support, guidance and inspiration you need to deliver lasting change in your community
Announcing new support to help Big Local areas achieve their ambitions
Find answers to common questions on the support available to Big Local partnerships
Learn new skills and share experiences with other Big Local areas
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