These three films were created as part of the Creative Civic Change programme, launched by Local Trust, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation…
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News Jul 2018
Culture and creativity
New arts funding programme seeks to put communities in the driving seat
A £4 million funding programme enabling communities to transform themselves through arts and creativity is being announced today
News Jul 2018
Power and leadership
Communities can be powerful – but they need support
Press release from Local Trust and the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR)
blog Jul 2018
Culture and creativity
Changing perceptions in Morecambe: Big Local West End
The residents of Morecambe in the north-west of England are working hard to change perceptions of their hometown –…
research Power and leadership
The Future for Communities: Perspectives on power
Final report from the Empowered Communities in the 2020s
podcast Culture and creativity
Pride of place
In this podcast, panelists from the RSA, discuss how stories from the past are rediscovered and reinvented by local…
blog Jul 2018
Community spirit
A strange kind of magic
Matt Leach, Local Trust chief executive, reveals why he thinks Big Local Connects, our biggest ever gathering of Big Local areas, was such a positive celebration of creativity, engagement and connection
blog Jul 2018
Health and wellbeing
Starting a youth mental health revolution
Jazz, 17, works with young people in Ewanrigg Big Local, as part of We Will, a youth mental health campaign group