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Insights

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

In focus

Research: Communities responding to COVID-19

Our year long research project looks at how communities react to, cope with and recover from a major crisis that impacts almost everybody in the community

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Research

Find out what we're learning from Big Local

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Community wealth building from the grassroots

A report exploring what we learned from our tour of England to...
Community spirit Local economies Spaces and services
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Briefing 7: Rapid research COVID-19

Literature review exploring 'community-led' and alternative conceptions of 'infrastructure'
Coronavirus
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Think big, act small

Elinor Ostrom’s radical vision for community power
Power and leadership
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Briefing 6: Rapid research COVID-19

Grassroots volunteering in 26 communities in response to COVID-19
Coronavirus
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Stronger than anyone thought: communities responding to COVID-19

Findings from the first phase of a study of community responses to...
Community spirit Coronavirus
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The role of Big Local partnerships during lockdown

Investigating the responses of Big Local communities to COVID-19
Coronavirus Skills
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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