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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.
Exploring the role social capital can play in securing better outcomes...
Local Trust’s policy and parliamentary manager, Tilly Steward, explains how the...
New report from Local Trust and the Centre for Progressive Policy...
With the launch of our new report with the Centre for...
A new report from the NHS Confederation and Local Trust –...
Madeleine Jennings, Local Trust’s head of external affairs, explores the creation...
Former Social Exclusion Minister Baroness Hilary Armstrong to lead a Commission...
In this blog, Natasha Meldrum focuses on the issue of crime...
As the new Labour government gets to work, we’re exploring some...
Our new website that shares our learning from the Big Local programme is now live
