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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.
What influences power and leadership within communities?
A report from thinktank Onward, on lessons from the regeneration of Britain’s...
Exploring why equality and social justice are inseparable from both the history...
In the US, investment in social infrastructure at a community level is a...
The social and economic benefits of investing in social infrastructure and its...
Local Trust's senior researcher Lucy Terry tells us all about the revelations...
A report exploring power within decision making in Big Local.
Colin Prescod explores community development through social upheaval, struggle and action
How are equality, diversity and inclusion understood and practiced across Big Local...