Local Trust’s submission of evidence to the House of Lords Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement.
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blog Aug 2017
Community spirit
Empowering communities: a rural parish perspective
Bob Rhodes explores why people may be becoming less involved in community life. He suggests that we’ll only see empowered…
blog Aug 2017
Power and leadership
New report: How councillors can empower local residents
Guide to ‘Community Collaboration’
blog Aug 2017
Culture and creativity
Seeing is believing
Learning from multimedia Big Local evaluation
guidance
How to use Local Insight
Local Insight is an online platform that allows users to access open-source data specific to a Big Local area in…
blog Jul 2017
Health and wellbeing
We need new forms of partnership with revived public services
Gabriel Chanan argues that for communities to become empowered, public services must become more participatory. By Gabriel Chanan, Director, Health Empowerment…
blog Jul 2017
Power and leadership
Why communities already have everything necessary for systemic change
Change begins with respect and empowered communities. In this blog, Nathan Ardaiz offers five ways for this to happen….
blog Jul 2017
Housing
Refugee integration: a key component of community empowerment
Matthew Rogers argues for more emphasis on refugee integration as a driver for community empowerment and explains why now…
blog Jul 2017
Power and leadership
Safety, the state and public services: necessities for empowerment?
Rachel Shanks argues that community safety is a primary foundation for community empowerment, and that community workers also play…