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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
David King, innovation lead at Local Trust, outlines how Big Local areas...
Margaret Bolton, knowledge and learning curator at Local Trust, outlines some of...
Ross Miller, Chair of Dover Town Big Local partnership shares his experiences...
Lea-Anne Clayton from South Bermondsey Big Local reflects on the daily challenges...
There’s no set recipe for an empowered community, but in this blog,...
A Big Local perspective on empowering communities.
Move over Heston Blumenthal, look what Heston West have cooked up!
Empowered Communities research project
Kay Snow argues that the road to empowerment of communities is in...
