Local Trust Podcast

Touching on ideas of agency, disillusionment and the impact of globalisation, this episode explores how communities are being forced out of necessity to re-create their own local economies. Buying up assets, building partnerships and investing in people are just a few of the ways local areas are becoming more inclusive, and in turn securing wealth that will remain within the community to support the people that need it most. Participants: Hazel Sheffield, author of ‘Building wealth’. Dan Spencer, West End Morecambe Big Local. Matt Leach, Local Trust. Rosie Carter, Hope not hate. Becca Antink, The RSA. Matt Buckham, Bromford. Joe Earl, Economy. Jess Prendergast, Onion Collective. Read the essay: https://localtrust.atavist.com/building-wealth

Why do today’s communities turn to history to make sense of how places and people are changing? In this podcast, panelists from the RSA, discuss how stories from the past are rediscovered and reinvented by local residents and are used to explore current issues – such as Brexit, immigration, the NHS and unemployment – and harness a community’s sense of pride and aspirations for the future. Participants: Carey Newson, author of ‘Designs on the Past’. Becca Antink, The RSA. Paul Bristow, Arts Council England. Jane Sills, Ramsey Big Local. Helen Graham, Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage. Chaired by: Jessica Wenban-Smith, Local Trust. Read the essay: https://localtrust.atavist.com/designs-on-the-past

Faith is a powerful motivator, and the latest podcast from Local Trust explores how this shapes the way both individuals and religious institutions interact with deprived communities. Representatives from Big Local areas, Theos and Church Urban Fun tackle issues of debt, inter-faith cooperation, secular versus the sacred and the tension between helping a community in need without stepping into a space previously occupied by the state. Read the essay:http://localtrust.org.uk/library/research-and-evaluation/community-spirits

Pubs, post offices, libraries, children’s centres, banks, community centres and many other spaces people rely to engage with one another and participate in the world around them are being closed at an alarming rate. The latest podcast from Local Trust asks what impact this is having on Sale West and SO18 Big Local areas in particular, with contributions from strategists and thinkers across the country asking what this means now, and in the future. Read the essay: http://localtrust.org.uk/library/research-and-evaluation/skittled-out

The first podcast from Local Trust examines where the Big Local programme sits in a wider historical context of community development, decline and revitalisation. Narrated by Julian Dobson, author of the essay 'New seeds beneath the snow?' with roundtable contributions from policy makers, strategists and thinkers from across the country, this podcast discusses the long term impact mutual aid and self help can have on communities that have felt systematically 'left behind' by both national legislation and public services. Read the essay: https://localtrust.atavist.com/new-seeds