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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.
Giving local people a stake in combatting the climate crisis
How can we build a better care system?
Friends of the Earth‘s head of England Victoria Marsom explores the inequalities...
Matt Leach responds to new research commissioned by Local Trust
Find out more ahead of our event on 24 February
How community can help build a more resilient education system
Matt Leach reflects on 2020, communities and confronting crisis
How our new toolkit will help amplify local voices
Matt Leach on the echoes of Elinor Ostrom in Big Local