Madeleine Jennings, explores a report from More in Common on the role green spaces play in building pride in place and strong social infrastructure.
Local Trust are seeking an organisation or collective to administer and manage grant funding for an ambitious new community health learning project in London.
The 2026 New Year Honours List includes three Big Local names – Donna-Marie Inwood, Christine Pattinson and Angie Buss – recognised for their services to their communities.
Drawing on 15 years of Big Local, this blog introduces Big Local Unpacked, a new learning series for funders and civil society on long-term, community-led change.
This working paper brings together evidence from the Big Local programme and distils learning about the practice of community-led renewal.
2025 has been a landmark year for Local Trust and the Big Local programme. This end-of-year reflection explores how the Big Local programme has influenced national policy, secured major funding, and shaped the future of community power in the UK.
As the Big Local programme concludes, its legacy highlights the power of resident-led, long-term funding to transform neighbourhoods. Big Local strengthened community power and the lessons and impact of the program will continue to shape future community led action
Professor Sarah Pearson, Director of the Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness, reflects on the recent conference ‘All Together…
As the anticipation builds for another Autumn budget, Madeleine Jennings, our head of policy and communications argues that real change depends on long-term, place-based investment that strengthens neighbourhood capacity and deepens social fabric
