We reflect on just some of our favourite Big Local highlights of 2018 – it has been quite a year…
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News Dec 2018
Community spirit
New learning cluster: Social change and campaigning
Adam Smith, senior programmes coordinator, shares how this new learning cluster could help your Big Local to change hearts and minds
News Dec 2018
Organising and deciding
Save the date: Big Local Connects 2019
David King, partnerships coordinator, reveals how next year, Big Local Connects will provide enhanced opportunities for Big local areas to connect with each other and share learning
Voices of Big Local Dec 2018
Community spirit
The angry pacifist
George Hill, chair of Kingswood and Hazel Leys, talks to our journalist-at-large about his life before Big Local and why he thinks the programme is inspiring people to take charge
blog Dec 2018
Power and leadership
Taking back control
Matt Leach, chief executive for Local Trust, reflects on the importance of community and place in the current political climate
blog Dec 2018
Organising and deciding
Putting data into the hands of communities
Matt Leach, our chief executive, argues now that place based funding is back at the centre of policy, it’s time to improve the quality of data available to local communities
blog Dec 2018
Organising and deciding
Getting the most out of open data
Lindsay Street, our researcher, explores how Big Local areas can use open data to enlighten their decision making
blog Dec 2018
Local economies
Community wealth funds – a means to address inequality
Margaret Bolton, our Director of policy, describes how thinking is developing on community wealth funds and puts the Community Wealth Fund Alliance proposal in context
blog Dec 2018
Organising and deciding
Big Local workers: Their networks and support
Andy Curtis, senior researcher, delves into the Big Local workers survey results to explore the quality of Big Local workers’ relationships, networks and the support they receive