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

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Uncover > Action

Uncover > Action is a new conference presenting the very latest community research

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Research

Find out what we're learning from Big Local

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Community hubs: Understanding survival and success

How can community hubs be financially viable?

Spaces and services
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Community commissioning

Shaping public services through people power

Power and leadership
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Rethinking home

How Big Local areas engage with new and transient groups and communities

Community spirit Spaces and services
Research and Evaluation Action Plan summary

Learn about the hypothesis that underpins our research and evaluation

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Working on Big Local: a survey of paid workers

This report highlights key findings from the survey

Local economies Skills
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Activate! Land in the hands of communities

Hannah Gardiner, Shared Assets

Spaces and services
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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
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

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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