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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.
Keep up to date with the very latest announcements from Local Trust
New research commissioned by Local Trust has found that residents of ‘left...
Community groups stepped up to help people experiencing data poverty during the...
£1m investment in community spaces and facilities could return £3.2m, new research...
Outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England delivers our first ever...
Insights, reflections and first-hand accounts from community volunteers at the frontline of the pandemic...
Communities need greater ownership over process and benefits that arise from move...
A Local Trust/Survation poll in ‘left behind’ areas show that people living...
Local Trust believes that Black Lives Matter
We are proud to be part of the relaunch of My Community; ...
