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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’.
Voices of Big Local Jul 2024
Community spirit
Local economies
Changemakers: Engaging residents and inspiring future regeneration in Blackpool
When Angie Buss retired to Blackpool, she felt a duty to volunteer to improve her new community. She shares how Revoelution Big Local has changed residents’ experiences of the area.
blog Jul 2024
Local economies
Beyond ‘levelling up’: Making funding work for neighbourhoods
Local Trust’s policy and parliamentary manager, Tilly Steward explains how a community wealth fund would be able to make a difference in doubly disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Voices of Big Local Jul 2024
Spaces and services
‘Having something secure for 10 years transformed the whole way we looked at the funding’
Reverend Bob White shares how listening to, supporting and celebrating community members lies at the heart of Fratton Big Local’s legacy.
research Health and wellbeing
Organising and deciding
Ending well and moving on: Supporting volunteers as they leave Big Local
This summary report shares findings from research Local Trust commissioned in June 2023 to understand what volunteers on Big Local partnerships needed to end their involvement in the Big Local programme well.