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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.
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.
Read ideas and insights about community-led change by Local Trust and its partners
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How community can help build a more resilient education system
Matt Leach reflects on 2020, communities and confronting crisis
How to prepare your community for the upcoming EU Settlement Scheme deadline
How our new toolkit will help amplify local voices
Matt Leach responds to Rishi Sunak's spending review.
Introducing a new series of events and resources designed to help Big...
To mark the publication of the learning report from our community wealth...
Matt Leach on the echoes of Elinor Ostrom in Big Local