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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
One year on from the initial launch of the Community Wealth Fund...
Graeme Fancourt, associate of Just Ideas and co-author of research report Rethinking...
Our Chief Executive Matt Leach responds to the new Communities Framework.
Steve Wyler, co-author of research report Community Hubs: Understanding Survival and Success,...
A blog by Niamh Goggin, Director of Small Change and member of...
Monica Begum, our communications intern, talks to four Big Local residents who...
Rob Day, Local Trust’s policy intern, reflects on how the Community Wealth...
Brookside Big Local embraces people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction
Matt Leach, the chief executive of Local Trust, comments on the launch...
