Double Dividend: Social and economic benefit of community infrastructure and its potential to level up left behind neighbourhoods

This policy report was written to inform the 2021 government's Levelling Up white paper. It uses evidence from over a decade of running the Big Local programme to make the case for trusting local people to deliver the change they want to see in their own communities.

Although written with a specific government policy in mind it provides a compelling analysis of the return on investment case that remains relevant.