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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.
Our research and evaluation of the Big Local programme
Jack Loughnane reflects on the results of our final Big Local...
An inquiry into resident-led decision making in the Big Local programme
What we've learnt so far
Learn about the hypothesis that underpins our research and evaluation
A report exploring power within decision making in Big Local.
Explore our reports, briefings and blogs that tests our hypothesis for Big Local
This report highlights key findings from the survey
Helping us understand and support Big Local partnerships
Investigating the responses of Big Local communities to COVID-19
How are equality, diversity and inclusion understood and practiced across Big...
Measuring the impact of Big Local
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How health is affected by the power to make decisions
An innovative longitudinal multimedia evaluation of Big Local
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