Big Local is about transferring power, decision making and control to communities and workers are a key part of the Big Local programme.

Big Local workers make a huge contribution to the Big Local programme. Local Trust would like to understand more about how workers support resident led decision making and the delivery of the Big Local plan. Recent research showed that there are 265 workers working across 135 Big Local areas.

It would be great to understand more about the things workers do and ways they work that contribute towards community control and resident led decision making. We would like to open up discussions with workers, partnership members, LTO’s and Big Local Reps at one of our workshops.

The researchers are holding short workshops in the coming months, with the one for reps taking place online on Thursday 27th January 2022.

We would like to talk to you about your experience, views and include your experience of Big Local workers in our research. To help us learn more about the role of workers, Local Trust have commissioned WSA Community Consultants to help us to understand:

• how workers support resident decision making and control

• what makes this easy and difficult for them, and

• what workers need to support residents in this way

The workshops will be on zoom but they will also be fun and interactive so please do come along as it would be great to have a wide range of people involved.

For any queries about the workshop or the research, please contact Local Trust at research@localtrust.org.uk.

The role of Big Local workers: a workshop for Big Local reps