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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.
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The latest news and announcements from Local Trust and the Big Local programme.
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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.
Read ideas and insights about community-led change by Local Trust and its partners
Find out how flexible small grants supported creative local residents to spread...
Explore ecology and accountability as we revisit the residents of Portland Street,...
Discover how residents of Portland Street, Stoke-on-Trent, are imagining a greener future...
Find out how residents of Kingswood and Hazel Leys reset their voices...
Running between November 2021 and February 2022, Local Trust is offering training...
Gathering stories from residents taking part in Big Local projects and activities...
We teamed up with Just Ideas and the Institute for Voluntary Action...
Ahead of Communities Week, Jess Wenban-Smith describes why now is the perfect...
Reflecting on Onward's analysis of 60 years of regeneration policy to learn...
