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Q&A articles
- Community Pride Podcast Episode 1 — What is community pride?
- Community Pride Podcast Episode 2 — What does pride in community power look like?
- Community Pride Podcast Episode 3 — Why do green spaces help to develop community pride?
- Community Pride Podcast Episode 4 — How did Big Local develop local pride through creativity?
- Community Pride Podcast Episode 5 — How did Big Local areas explore pride in the past?
- Community Pride Podcast Episode 6 — How did Big Local areas aim to leave pride in their legacy?
- How did Big Local areas increase community control over physical assets and spaces and to what effect?
- How did Big Local areas involve young people in decision-making?
- How did Big Local areas spend their funding?
- How did Big Local areas support children and young people in their communities?
- How did Big Local build the skills and confidence of residents?
- How did Big Local enable residents to lead decision-making?
- How did Big Local encourage and support volunteering?
- How did Big Local partnerships bring residents together to make decisions?
- How did decision-making in Big Local impact health and wellbeing?
- How did residents develop their own abilities to deliver Big Local?
- How did the long-term, flexible Big Local funding support and enable community power?
- How effective was the Locally Trusted Organisation model in supporting community-led work?
- How was community leadership supported in Big Local?
- How was conflict managed in Big Local?
- How was support delivered in the Big Local programme?
- Local Trust’s approach to research
- Was Big Local good value for money?
- What did Big Local areas do to develop their local economies?
- What did Big Local areas do to improve health?
- What did conflict look like in Big Local?
- What does success mean in Big Local?
- What enables good relationships between resident-led groups and local government?
- What was the role of Locally Trusted Organisations in Big Local?
- What were the support needs of Big Local areas, and how were they identified?
- Why were physical assets and spaces an important investment for Big Local areas?
Resident stories
- A safe space for young people in Ramsgate
- Addressing local needs and growing community resilience in Kidderminster
- An unexpected journey to community leadership in Birchwood
- Beyond age: Why communities are investing in young people’s futures
- Black Lives Matter community project helps youth express themselves in west London
- Blackburn community unites to fight holiday hunger
- Bringing cultures and communities together in Boston, Lincolnshire
- Bringing divided neighbourhoods together in the West Midlands
- Bringing high speed broadband to a rural village
- Bringing play to children’s doorsteps in a big purple bus
- Bringing young people together and improving village life in West Cumbria
- Building alliances and a sense of belonging in Battersea
- Building confidence and connection through volunteering
- Collaborating with a university to unlock local opportunities for residents and students
- Community archaeologists preserve local heritage
- Community claims a space on the high street
- Community health champion connects residents to life-changing health and wellbeing services
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 10: Rebuilding community spirit in Liverpool
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 11: Engaging the next generation in the Black Country
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 2: Restoring ruins in Northumberland
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 4: Climate-proofing communities in North Bristol
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 5: Community leadership in Walsall
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 6: Cooking up a storm in Brinnington
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 7: Tackling health inequality in Solihull
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 8: Inspiring youth action in Hounslow
- Community Power Podcast Series 1 Episode 9: Making space for creativity in Cornwall
- Community wealth building by the sea
- Connecting to Birmingham’s young and diverse community
- Creating a legacy of community development in Par Bay
- Creating an inclusive sensory children’s playgroup in East London
- Developing houses and supporting addiction recovery in Telford
- Engaging residents and inspiring future regeneration in Blackpool
- Enriching the community through arts and creativity in Corby
- From growing up in poverty to becoming a community leader in Poole
- Giving people a voice and building a better place to live in Southampton
- How food builds community — from locally grown leeks to outdoor cinemas
- How investing in local infrastructure and enabling local enterprises connected two communities
- How new community spaces have transformed an estate in Ramsgate
- How supporting creative projects turned a corner of East London into a destination
- How to improve community engagement by refreshing your communications
- Improving listening skills to work through conflict
- Inspiring community pride and making Thurnscoe village a better place to live in South Yorkshire
- Inspiring local connections in a West Yorkshire community
- Inspiring residents to become leaders in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire
- Investing in people and local organisations in East Finchley
- Local knowledge shapes community housing plan
- Photography competition brings joy in lockdown
- Plants and people flourishing in Lincolnshire
- Raising resident aspirations with healthy, affordable catering
- Rebuilding a partnership in a pandemic
- Reducing isolation and inspiring connection in West Yorkshire
- Revitalising a Portsmouth high street through the arts
- Saving a library from closure in Sussex
- Seed funding a local Special Educational Needs (SEN) charity for local families
- Sports and community hub opens in Thurcroft
- Supporting young people to improve their lives in Gateshead
- Supporting youth mental health through self-expression
- Surplus food deliveries create lifeline in Reading
- Tackling food poverty with innovative partnerships in Merseyside
- The power of knit and natter
- The tide turns for Dover
- The transformative power of long-term funding in communities
- Training volunteers to guide residents with end-of-life decisions
- Transferring a community hub into resident hands
- Transforming a forgotten estate into a place for future generations
- Turning a church into a thriving community hub in Runcorn
Reports
- A review of learning clusters
- A review of specialist support in Big Local
- Activate! Land in the hands of communities
- Additional resources: more than just the million
- Areas at risk of not ‘spending out’
- Big Local and civic participation
- Big Local and Community Economic Development
- Big Local areas not spending to plan
- Big Local Connects 2019: Evaluation
- Big Local early learning report
- Big Local early years evaluation
- Big Local learning review 2012–2013
- Big Local partnerships and incorporation
- Big Local partnerships and the public sector: scoping paper
- Big Local relationships with public agencies
- Big Local: Funding raised from other sources and jobs supported
- Big Local: What’s new and different?
- Briefing 1: Rapid research COVID-19
- Briefing 10: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: Striking a balance between communities and local authorities
- Briefing 11: Rapid research COVID-19 Community responses to COVID-19: Power and communities
- Briefing 12: Rapid research COVID-19 Community responses to COVID-19: Potential and limits of community power in a pandemic
- Briefing 13: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: Community hubs as social infrastructure
- Briefing 14: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: Sustaining community action
- Briefing 15: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: Changing community needs and looking to the future
- Briefing 16: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: Connecting communities? How relationships have mattered in community responses to COVID-19
- Briefing 2: Rapid research COVID-19
- Briefing 3: Rapid research COVID-19
- Briefing 4: Rapid research COVID-19: Blending formal and informal community responses
- Briefing 5: Rapid research COVID-19: Volunteering through crisis and beyond: Starting, stopping and shifting
- Briefing 6: Rapid research COVID-19: Stepping up and helping out: grassroots volunteering in response to COVID-19
- Briefing 7: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: towards community-led infrastructure
- Briefing 8: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: the role and contribution of community-led infrastructure
- Briefing 9: Rapid research COVID-19: Community responses to COVID-19: communities and local authorities
- Building community leadership
- Building on assets: The Local Trust approach
- Community commissioning: Shaping public services through people power
- Community engagement within Big Local
- Community hubs: understanding survival and success
- Community Leadership Academy practice review
- Community Leadership: Literature review
- Community power: the evidence
- Community wealth building from the grassroots
- Community-led Social Prescribing: Lessons from Big Local and Beyond
- Delivering Big Local: the role of Locally Trusted Organisations (a scoping paper)
- Developing potential: Lessons from community experiences of regeneration
- Effectiveness of Big Local learning support
- Ending well and moving on: Supporting volunteers as they leave Big Local
- Equality, diversity, and inclusion: How EDI is understood, defined and practiced across Big Local areas
- Evidence on the importance of capacity building and community leadership
- Funding for resident control
- Getting started in Wave 2 Big Local areas: key findings
- How evaluators can support community-led evaluation
- Impact of Big Local
- Influences on the development of Big Local areas 2013–14
- Influences on the development of Big Local areas 2014–15
- Investigating health and social outcomes of the Big Local community empowerment initiative in England: a mixed method evaluation
- Leading change: Why now is the time to invest in community leadership
- Learning from Getting People Involved (round 2)
- Measuring change support pilot evaluation
- Now they see us: Communities responding to COVID-19
- One pandemic, many responses
- People, places and health agencies: lessons from Big Local residents
- Plans to action
- Power in Big Local Partnerships
- Power in Big Local: literature review
- Power in our hands — An inquiry into positive and lasting change in the Big Local programme
- Power in our hands — Inquiry into place-based funding
- Power in our hands: An inquiry into resident-led decision making in the Big Local programme
- Powerful communities and decision-making spaces
- Promoting inclusion: Tackling discrimination through place-based action
- Pushing the boundaries of Big Local
- Rebalancing the Power: Five principles for a successful relationship between councils and communities
- Report series: Rapid research COVID-19
- Residents in control: Community grants in Big Local areas
- Rethinking home: Engaging transient and new communities in Big Local
- Spheres of community influence
- Stronger than anyone thought: Communities responding to COVID-19
- Tackling systemic racism through community-led action: Learning and practice
- The Big Local story
- The relationship between money and community power in the Big Local programme
- The role of Big Local partnerships during lockdown
- The role of paid workers in supporting a community-led programme
- The role of small grants in Big Local: scoping paper
- The role of the rep in Big Local
- Towards resilience: Communities and green spaces
- Volunteering and Big Local: Who volunteers in Big Local communities, what they do, and why
- Volunteering in Big Local: scoping paper
- Well-Placed: The impact of Big Local on the health of communities
- Working on Big Local: a survey of paid workers