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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.
A report for Local Trust from Frontier Economics
In this report produced in partnership with Local Trust, New Local analysed...
Local Trust's submission to the government's technical consultation on the design and...
Examining Big Local partnership members who go onto other civic roles, and...
This essay from Demos argues that we need a state which is...
Examining what new structures are needed to enable community leadership.
The importance of neighbourhood-level social infrastructure in building strong communities.
