Big Local reps

The role of a rep is to help your area achieve your vision for your Big Local area through support, advice and appropriate challenge. Rep support includes guiding your area through the Big Local pathway, often working through the Big Local partnership. The rep also represents Local Trust in your area. They report back to Local Trust and partners to ensure we use your experiences to improve how the programme operates.
The rep role is ‘light- touch’.Reps have two assignments. One is from the start of Big Local to your area having your plan agreed by us at Local Trust. The second assignment is whilst you deliver your plan. Reps are not the Big Local workers in each area so many areas also get support from others in locally trusted organisations. Each rep’s time is paid for by Local Trust and is additional to your area’s £1m. The reps are managed by Renaisi on behalf of Local Trust.

Reps will guide areas through the various stages of the Big Local pathway and support areas to meet Big Local’s four outcomes.

Local Trust assigns reps to work with areas through the early stages of Big Local – typically supporting them through stages 1 – 5 of the pathway until a Big Local partnership has been established. The partnership can then select its own Big Local rep to work with over the longer term, you can find out more about this process in the rep selection and handover document.

• Find your Big Local rep.