Kay Snow argues that the road to empowerment of communities is in coming together in solidarity and resistance against…
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blog Sep 2017
Power and leadership
Who can empower communities?
In this blog, Rachel Nye argues that we need to affirm and equip a wide range of people as…
News Sep 2017
Spaces and services
New support for communities to own and manage land
Local Trust and Shared Assets announce partnership to support Big Local areas Residents in 150 areas in England will…
News Sep 2017
Community spirit
Local Trust submits evidence to House of Lords Citizenship committee
Local Trust has submitted evidence to the House of Lords select committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement
blog Sep 2017
Local economies
We can empower communities through supporting local entrepreneurs
In this blog, Rob Allen argues that supporting low or no income entrepreneurs through a Universal Basic Income can…
blog Sep 2017
Power and leadership
Empowered Communities? Why?
Creating ‘empowered communities’ is a problematic term – in the end, it should be about making communities more powerful,…
blog Sep 2017
Organising and deciding
How residents are managing complexity
Learning from multimedia Big Local evaluation
blog Sep 2017
Community spirit
Talking versus doing: The big debate
Author David Boyle examines the powerful stories of residents involved in Big Local and challenges established ideas about what it takes to create local change