This blog explores how the Big Local programme embedded inclusive collaboration into its design, placing residents in the driving seat and drawing on diverse perspectives to solve complex problems.
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Community leaders are the key ingredient of community-led change. Drawing on learning from Big Local, Georgie Burr explores how investing in resident leadership — from listening campaigns to small grants — creates the conditions for lasting transformation in communities.
In February, Local Trust hosted a seminar bringing together academic, community and third-sector researchers to reflect honestly on what works – and what doesn’t – when involving communities in research. This blog reflects on the three major lessons from the seminar
Sue Ansarie shares insights from across Big Local areas on improving health and wellbeing in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Local Trust’s head of programme, Alex Boys explores what happens when residents hold genuine power over resources and the lasting change that resident-led decision making creates.
Local Trust are seeking an organisation or collective to administer and manage grant funding for an ambitious new community health learning project in Liverpool.
This report by IPPR North explores how unitarisation enables democratic renewal through hyperlocal governance and community participation
As Big Local comes to an end in 2026, we’re reflecting on the ways communities have addressed local health and wellbeing challenges. In this blog, Lucy Thurley explores how shared meals and inclusive gatherings in Big Local areas like Wick Award and Pimlico Million have tackled loneliness and social isolation, by creating community spaces where people feel welcome, visible and valued
