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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.
Read ideas and insights about community-led change by Local Trust and its partners
The Portland Inn Project on installing a temporary community space
Margaret Bolton reflects on the value of community-minded businesses
After a year touring the country to tell the stories of Big...
Events exploring community wealth building at the neighbourhood level
To find out more about real experiences of measuring change, Lindsay Street,...
James Goodman on why the climate crisis matters
Film based on poem created with Longfella at Connects 2018
Matt Leach reflects on how communities prioritise how money is spent
Dover Big Local is stimulating economic activity in the town
