Yvonne Griggs went from being a dog owner dismayed by the state of her local park to chair of Birchwood Big Local’s parks and green spaces subgroup. Here she describes how her confidence has grown and how the Big Local partnership has turned the dream of community-owned parks into an exciting reality – with a sustainable income stream and high quality housing too.
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blog Feb 2018
Skills
Enterprising Communities: Creating Places Where People Can Prosper
Are we doing all we can to support those entrepreneurial people in communities who are make genuine, lasting difference?
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Spaces and services
Place matters: How communities in England are changing
A report by Localis for Local Trust
blog Jan 2018
Power and leadership
Imagining Powerful Communities conference
On a snowy December morning we held a conference at Birmingham University. Participants made heroic efforts to get themselves…
News Jan 2018
Skills
Coastal communities to develop citizen leadership and economic action with support from NEF and Local Trust
Building skills to revive 12 Big Local neighbourhoods on the English coastline
blog Jan 2018
Skills
A year on: communities set the agenda
In this series Matt Leach, chief executive of Local Trust, reflects on what he has learned from Big Local Communities after being a year in post – and this second installment examines how Wargrave is taking back control after years of neglect
blog Jan 2018
Community spirit
A year on: the pace of change
In this series Matt Leach, chief executive of Local Trust, reflects on what he has learned from Big Local Communities after being a year in post – and this final installment looks at the way Beechwood, Ballantyne and Bidston Village Big Local celebrate all the people working together to revitalise their community