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Big Local is an exciting opportunity for residents in 150 areas to create lasting change in their communities.
Essential guidance, information and ideas for Big Local partnerships, to help you deliver change in your community.
Find out how the principles of Big Local have inspired other programmes creating change in local communities.
Community Leadership Academy
Supporting volunteers involved in Big Local projects to develop their skills and knowledge.
Creative Civic Change
This new approach to funding enabled communities to use art and creativity to make positive local change.
The latest news and stories from Big Local areas and beyond, exploring community power and resident-led change.
News
The latest news and announcements from Local Trust and the Big Local programme.
Podcasts
Conversations exploring the most important issues affecting communities today.
Blogs
Ideas and insights about Big Local and the impact of community-led change.
Voices of Big Local
Inspiring stories from the people making change happen in their communities.
Find out how people coming together to advocate for themselves can make or break community power
Young people are finding their voice in this Essex community
How Big Local areas are levelling the scales of local power
Tried and tested tools to support your Big Local
This research aims to understand relationships between Big Local areas and the...
Why some Big Local areas do not spend their funding as planned....
Evaluation findings from our 2019 Connects event for Big Local areas.
Why some areas are at risk of not spending all their funding.
Aimee Mallinson, worker for Cars Area Together in Solihull, believes ideas first...