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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.
Matt Leach explains how a new UK Shared Prosperity Fund can best...
Rob Day, Local Trust’s policy intern, reflects on how the Community Wealth...
Matt Leach, the chief executive of Local Trust, comments on the launch...
A coalition of organisations calling for the Government to invest the next...
A recent trip to the United States by Matt Leach, our chief...
Community Wealth Fund Alliance response
Policy director Margaret Bolton asks how places termed 'left behind' will benefit...
Britain’s towns need more than just new economic investment. Matt Leach, chief...
Locality, in partnership with Local Trust and Power to Change, are...
