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Insights

In-house and independent research and essays sharing experience and knowledge of community-led change

In focus

Community responses to crisis

Steve Wyler takes a look at some of the worst crises in our history and considers how we can engage with these examples to understand the responses to COVID-19 in 2020

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Research

Find out what we're learning from Big Local

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How can we build resilient food systems in the...

Using lessons from coronavirus to improve food security

Coronavirus
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Improving digital connectivity in communities

How can we make digital exclusion a thing of the past?

Coronavirus
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The changing relationship between communities and public services

How is it changing and what can we learn for the future?

Coronavirus
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Briefing 2: Rapid research COVID-19

Community resilience and resourcefulness in times of crisis

Coronavirus
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Our COVID future: The Long Crisis scenarios

Four scenarios for a world post-COVID

Coronavirus
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Briefing 1: Rapid research COVID-19

New research exploring how communities respond to and recover from this crisis

Coronavirus
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Essays

Read about how people and places are changing through Big Local in our essay series written by independent thinkers

| Big Local
Community responses in times of crisis

Glimpses into the past, present and future

Steve Wyler

| Big Local
The Courage to Succeed

Taking action to make a change

Louise Tickle

| Big Local
Counterweight

How Big Local areas are levelling the scales of local power

David Boyle

| Big Local
A level playing field

How sport can unite and transform communities

Ryan Herman

| Big Local
Beyond age

Why communities are investing in young people’s futures

Antony Mason

| Big Local
Creating the future

Art, communities and change

Maddy Costa

| Big Local
Building wealth

How communities are reshaping the economy from the bottom up

Hazel Sheffield

| Big Local
Designs on the past

What can history do for hard-pressed communities?

Carey Newson

| Big Local
Community Spirits

The changing role
of faith in place

Stephen Bates

| Big Local
Skittled out?

The collapse and revival of England’s social infrastructure

Dan Gregory

| Big Local
New seeds beneath the snow?

Big Local neighbourhoods in action

Julian Dobson

| Big Local
The grammar of change

Big Local neighbourhoods in action

David Boyle

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Independent evaluation

Communities in Control

How health is affected by the power to make decisions

Our Bigger Story

An innovative longitudinal multimedia evaluation of Big Local