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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 snapshot of community economic development initiatives from Big Local areas
Exploring the concept of resilience and why it needs to be at...
Read Local Trust’s response to the Education Select Committee Inquiry into left...
How can communities support residents who feel isolated?
Using lessons from coronavirus to improve food security
How can we make digital exclusion a thing of the past?
How is it changing and what can we learn for the future?
Four scenarios for a world post-COVID
Exploring community wealth building in the context of Big Local
