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blog Sep 2024
Creating safer streets: preventing crime by investing in communities
In this blog, Natasha Meldrum focuses on the issue of crime – and the ways that communities across the country have worked to build civic pride and support vulnerable people.
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Tackling crime: In every neighbourhood
Crime in disadvantaged areas is not inevitable and can be prevented by long term, community-led action. This paper explores how neighbourhoods with strong social infrastructure act as crucial preventative measure.
blog Sep 2024
Community spirit
Local economies
Power and leadership
An interconnected web: How funding can develop community power
How does giving communities just over £1million of non-prescriptive funding with 10-15 years to spend it support residents to develop community power?
research Local economies
Power and leadership
The relationship between money and community power in the Big Local programme
This report examines the relationship between financial resources and community power within Big Local, exploring to what extent the money serves both as a source and an enabler of community power.
blog Aug 2024
Environment
A clean energy transition for all: Delivering community energy in the most deprived neighbourhoods
As the new Labour government gets to work, we’re exploring some of the key issues our communities are facing,…
research Environment
Local economies
Clean energy: In every community
This paper examines Labour’s mission to establish a Local Power Plan, how community-based energy projects are vital in the national transition to cleaner energy, and what the government must do to ensure no places are left behind in this transition.
Voices of Big Local Aug 2024
Culture and creativity
Equality, diversity and inclusion
‘The dream is to make this a career’
In the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, support from North meets South Big Local has enabled volunteers Aisha and Annette to turn their vision for a children’s Messy Play project into reality.
Voices of Big Local Aug 2024
Community spirit
‘I think what we’ve given a lot of people is self-confidence’
In the Big Local area of North meets South, chair Roy Figes explains how they broke down barriers and brought two communities together. Find out how they have been addressing issues affecting younger people and listening to what residents really wanted for their area.