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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.
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The latest news and announcements from Local Trust and the Big Local programme.
Podcasts
Conversations exploring the most important issues affecting communities today.
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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.
Read about how people are creating community power every day
Gabriel Davies, Local Trust's programme coordinator, shares how learning from external support...
This report highlights key findings from the survey
Exploring the role of learning clusters in supporting Big Local areas.
Stefan Noble, OCSI, and Margaret Bolton, Local Trust, outline findings from the...
The role of specialist support in the delivery of Big Local.
Are we doing all we can to support those entrepreneurial people in...
Building skills to revive 12 Big Local neighbourhoods on the English coastline
In this series Matt Leach, chief executive of Local Trust, reflects on...
£2.8m invested in building sustainable and socially-beneficial local economic growth in communities...