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How to use Local Insight
Local Insight is an online platform that allows users to access open-source data specific to a Big Local area in…
Voices of Big Local Jul 2017
Community spirit
Barnfield People
In one of his final projects, artist and photographer Tim Wainwright got to know the people of Barnfield Big Local area in Greenwich, and recorded them as they spoke about their lives and their estate.
blog Jul 2017
Health and wellbeing
We need new forms of partnership with revived public services
Gabriel Chanan argues that for communities to become empowered, public services must become more participatory. By Gabriel Chanan, Director, Health Empowerment…
blog Jul 2017
Power and leadership
Why communities already have everything necessary for systemic change
Change begins with respect and empowered communities. In this blog, Nathan Ardaiz offers five ways for this to happen….
blog Jul 2017
Housing
Refugee integration: a key component of community empowerment
Matthew Rogers argues for more emphasis on refugee integration as a driver for community empowerment and explains why now…
blog Jul 2017
Power and leadership
Safety, the state and public services: necessities for empowerment?
Rachel Shanks argues that community safety is a primary foundation for community empowerment, and that community workers also play…
blog Jul 2017
Power and leadership
Empowered communities are the bedrock of our society
We need to create the right conditions for a greater sense of community responsibility, and make it easy and…