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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.
Discover the community-led arts projects that took place as part of Creative Civic Change.
Nudge Community Builders in Plymouth, Devon
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, Birmingham
Tilting the Mirror in Peckham, London
Good Stuff in St Leonards, East Sussex
The PAR-teee in Par Bay, Cornwall
ReMake in Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Creative Kingswood and Hazel Leys, Corby
The Portland Inn Project, Stoke-on-Trent
Our new website that shares our learning from the Big Local programme is now live
