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Local Trust is a place-based funder supporting communities to achieve their ambitions.
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Big Local

Big Local is an exciting opportunity for residents in 150 areas to create lasting change in their communities.
About the programme

Support centre

Essential guidance, information and ideas for Big Local partnerships, to help you deliver change in your community.
Visit the support centre

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Other programmes

Other programmes

Find out how the principles of Big Local have inspired other programmes creating change in local communities.

Community Leadership Academy

Supporting volunteers involved in Big Local projects to develop their skills and knowledge.
Find out more

Creative Civic Change

This new approach to funding enabled communities to use art and creativity to make positive local change.
Find out more

< Back to main menu
News and stories

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The latest news and stories from Big Local areas and beyond, exploring community power and resident-led change.
Explore

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The latest news and announcements from Local Trust and the Big Local programme.
Read more

Podcasts

Conversations exploring the most important issues affecting communities today.
Listen now

Blogs

Ideas and insights about Big Local and the impact of community-led change.
Read more

Voices of Big Local

Inspiring stories from the people making change happen in their communities.
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blog Aug 2024 Skills Spaces and services

Towards opportunity for all: Addressing educational inequalities one neighbourhood at a time

Breaking down barriers to opportunity is one of the new Labour government’s five national missions. In this blog, Millie Dessent, policy officer at Local Trust, focuses on the role of neighbourhood-level action in supporting children and young people to achieve their full potential at school and beyond.

research Equality, diversity and inclusion

Breaking down barriers

This paper examines education and employment at the neighbourhood level

Voices of Big Local Aug 2024 Power and leadership

‘Without Big Local I probably wouldn’t still be around’

Getting involved in Big Local helped Donna Crutcher through a tough time. She explains how the caring community she has known since childhood has benefitted from a shared space and new opportunities for connection.

research Local economies

Economic growth – in every neighbourhood

This paper looks at economic inequalities at the neighbourhood level and what can be done to help, as part of our series, ‘Making the government’s missions work in neighbourhoods’

blog Aug 2024 Local economies

Economic growth: No national renewal without neighbourhood renewal

Securing sustainable economic growth in every region of the UK is the new Labour government’s flagship mission, without which…

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How does a Big Local area work?

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Making the government’s missions work in neighbourhoods

Discover how the Labour government’s missions can be implemented on a neighbourhood level.

blog Jul 2024 Health and wellbeing Power and leadership

Towards a healthier nation: The case for a greater focus on neighbourhoods

With the government’s movement towards a neighbourhood health service, Kyle Vanelli, policy officer at Local Trust, looks at the potential for neighbourhood-level action to transform the way we treat health on a national level.

research Health and wellbeing

Towards a neighbourhood health service

This paper looks at health disparities at the neighbourhood level and what can be done to help, as part of our series, ‘Making the government’s missions work in neighbourhoods’.

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