Training: assessing the needs of your community during COVID-19
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This module builds on the outcomes for Big Local - communities being better able to identify local needs and take action in response to them, and having increased skills to continue to identify and respond to communities needs in the future - and adapts these to the current context in which Covid-19 has changed everyday life for many communities. The session seeks to give open space for questions and feedback, and some key tips and hints for participants that can help them continue to adapt their projects in line with local needs.
By the end of the session participants will be able to:
- Examine the factors related to the Covid-19 pandemic that have affected their local area
- Describe how this might affect their current Big Local plans
- Recall tools, techniques and approaches to understanding and prioritising needs
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Local Trust's mission is to enable residents to make their own communities and their areas better places in which to live.
Local Trust was established in 2012 to deliver Big Local, a National Lottery Community Fund-funded programme which committed £1m each to 150 neighbourhoods across England. The £217m originally provided by The National Lottery Community Fund to support this programme 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 terms of scale, time horizon and ethos, nothing like Big Local has ever existed. Designed from the outset to be radically different from other funding programmes, at the heart of Big Local is a vision of empowered, resilient, dynamic, asset-rich communities making their own decisions on what is best for their area. In 2019, half way into delivering Big Local, we reported on what we have learned so far.