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

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Community Needs Index (CNI)

‘Left behind’ neighbourhoods

What is social infrastructure?
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A series of projects sharing what worked in the Big Local programme and why, and supporting the Big Local legacy in the communities that were involved.

Beacon areas

Supporting connections between community organisations continuing resident-led action beyond Big Local
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Health inequalities

Supporting community-led health and wellbeing approaches to tackle health inequalities
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News Nov 2019 Local economies Spaces and services

Left-behind places: A new index finds neglect in Britain’s banlieues

This article was first featured in The Economist, looking at the association between a neighbourhood’s position on the Community Needs Index and its support for Brexit

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