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Creative Civic Change
This new approach to funding enabled communities to use art and creativity to make positive local change.
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Voices of Big Local
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What's the role of culture and creativity in community-led change? Research and stories from 150 Big Local areas
14 communities across England are set to transform their local areas as...
Art, communities and change
In this blog, Maddy Costa, author of our new arts essay shares...
Barry Mead, CELL Big Local, chats to our journalist-at-large about how he...
Local Trust's submission to Arts Council England (ACE) strategy consultation
Mazhar Ellahi, Greenmoor Big Local partnership member, shares how their commemoration event...
Nyah, Birchfield Big Local, describes how the power of storytelling and performing...
Carey Newson, author of our essay 'Designs on the past', describes her...