News from Local Trust and the Big Local programme March 2019
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Stronger Towns Fund | Research conference | Community led homes | Creativity, hubs & loneliness | Community assets
2 blogs on Stronger Towns Fund
Our key questions about how places termed 'left behind' will benefit from the new £1.6bn fund.
Matt Leach blogs that Britain’s towns need more than just economic investment.
The small Big Local with the 5 million pound idea
Distington Big Local reveal how thinking big and expert advice has helped them to secure funding for a planning application to build 41 dementia-friendly homes. Read the story by Louise Tickle, our journalist-at-large
Uncover > Action
We’re inviting community researchers to save the date and share their latest research at Uncover > Action, our first joint conference with ARVAC on 26 November 2019. Register your interest
Big Local Connects 2019
Registration for our annual get together opens on 15 April 2019! It's a national event open to every Big Local area. Watch this space
Learn about creativity, community hubs & loneliness
Three new learning events for Big Local partnerships are launching. You can register for the Creativity and Community Hub events here. Details of a new Isolation and Loneliness cluster will be announced shortly.
The power of knit and natter
“Eve lives three doors down from me! It does make you tear up a bit.” Find out how Rudheath and Witton Big Local is using knitting to nurture confidence, skills and friendships which span the generations. Read the feature
Taking on land & spaces
Drawing from Big Local areas that have found new ways to bring land and other assets into community control, Shared Assets lays out how funders and policy makers could help others. Read the report
Revised rep documents
Big Local partnerships can now find the revised rep role description and assignment on our website. A big thank you to everyone who gave feedback as part of the consultation.
