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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
A report from thinktank Onward, on lessons from the regeneration of Britain’s...
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The social and economic benefits of investing in social infrastructure and its...
Matt Leach responds to Rishi Sunak's spending review.
The importance of 'levelling up' at a hyper-local level
Find out what Big Local residents want from the government's new planning...
Matt Leach on why long-term investment is needed to build strong communities
