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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.
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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
Local Trust's submission to Arts Council England (ACE) strategy consultation
Matt Leach, chief executive of Local Trust, considers the importance of social...
Councillor Martyn Rawlinson, Inner East Preston Big Local chair, discovered time, teasing...
Tang Hall Big Local invited Louise Tickle, journalist-at-large, behind the scenes at...
We reflect on just some of our favourite Big Local highlights of...
Matt Leach, chief executive for Local Trust, reflects on the importance of...
Matt Leach, our chief executive, argues now that place based funding is...
Lindsay Street, our researcher, explores how Big Local areas can use open...
Margaret Bolton, our Director of policy, describes how thinking is developing on...
