Giving 150 local communities £1 million each with no strings attached: This is the leap of faith the National Lottery Community Fund took in 2012 when it established a nonprofit organisation called Local Trust to deliver Big Local, a programme that puts money directly into the hands of communities across the UK.
The £217 million fund is the largest single-purpose Lottery-funded endowment ever made,and the biggest-ever investment by a non-state funder in place-based, resident-led change in the UK. In terms of scale, time horizon, and ethos, nothing like the Big Local programme has ever been attempted in England before.
Let’s have a look at how cloud technology and a user-led approach are enabling the programme’s success.
One of the initiatives created through the Big Local programme is the Big Local Little Voices project in England’s West Midlands.
Big Local was designed from the outset to be
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