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Big Local is an exciting opportunity for residents in 150 areas to create lasting change in their communities.
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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.
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Voices of Big Local
Inspiring stories from the people making change happen in their communities.
What influences power and leadership within communities?
Pitching In looks at how community leadership is happening in practice; what...
Why is it so important to invest in community leaders and how...
Our chief executive Matt Leach responds to the Government's Levelling Up White...
James Masters from Grange Big Local reflects on completing the Community Leadership...
Why have the last three decades of community development initiatives left us...
Local Trust is part of an alliance of organisations calling for investment...
Journalist Harriet Marsden meets young people in the West Midlands bridging neighbourhood...
We teamed up with Just Ideas and the Institute for Voluntary Action...