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blog Sep 2024
Creating safer streets: preventing crime by investing in communities
In this blog, Natasha Meldrum focuses on the issue of crime – and the ways that communities across the country have worked to build civic pride and support vulnerable people.
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Tackling crime: In every neighbourhood
Crime in disadvantaged areas is not inevitable and can be prevented by long term, community-led action. This paper explores how neighbourhoods with strong social infrastructure act as crucial preventative measure.
blog Sep 2024
Community spirit
Local economies
Power and leadership
An interconnected web: How funding can develop community power
How does giving communities just over £1million of non-prescriptive funding with 10-15 years to spend it support residents to develop community power?
research Local economies
Power and leadership
The relationship between money and community power in the Big Local programme
This report examines the relationship between financial resources and community power within Big Local, exploring to what extent the money serves both as a source and an enabler of community power.
blog Aug 2024
Environment
A clean energy transition for all: Delivering community energy in the most deprived neighbourhoods
As the new Labour government gets to work, we’re exploring some of the key issues our communities are facing,…
research Environment
Local economies
Clean energy: In every community
This paper examines Labour’s mission to establish a Local Power Plan, how community-based energy projects are vital in the national transition to cleaner energy, and what the government must do to ensure no places are left behind in this transition.
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