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blog Jul 2018 Community spirit

A strange kind of magic

Matt Leach, Local Trust chief executive, reveals why he thinks Big Local Connects, our biggest ever gathering of Big Local areas, was such a positive celebration of creativity, engagement and connection

podcast Community spirit

Community spirits

Representatives from Big Local areas, Theos and Church Urban Fun tackle issues of debt, inter-faith cooperation, secular versus the…

essay Spaces and services

Skittled out?

The collapse and revival of England’s social infrastructure

blog May 2018 Power and leadership

Time to update your preferences

Dan Gregory, ​author of ‘Skittled Out?’, examines what the loss of social infrastructure means across the country, and how three Big Local areas are trying to fill the gap