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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.
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.
Explore our policy work aiming to shift power to local communities
Using evidence from Big Local, this report shows how long-term investment...
This report tells the story of the Big Local programme. Did...
Madeleine Jennings, explores a report from More in Common on the...
This working paper brings together evidence from the Big Local programme...
2025 has been a landmark year for Local Trust and the...
Professor Sarah Pearson, Director of the Centre for Collaboration in Community...
As the anticipation builds for another Autumn budget, Madeleine Jennings, our...
In this policy spotlight, Natasha Meldrum explores how investing in social...
The final paper in our policy spotlight series summarises the evidence...
Our new website that shares our learning from the Big Local programme is now live
