Local Trust
Chris Catterall serves as a Board Member at Local Trust since November 2021 and has been the Chief Executive of Capacity: The Public Services Lab since November 2016, pioneering efforts to enhance service delivery by fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders. Previously, Chris held various leadership roles at The Reader UK from August 2008 to October 2016, including Managing Director and Development Director, where responsibilities encompassed managing budgets, establishing development frameworks, and enhancing revenue. Earlier experience includes a Financial Assistant role at PwC from September 2005 to July 2008, featuring participation in a corporate taxation program and securing a scholarship for university studies. Chris earned a degree in Business Economics and later a qualification in Reading in Practice from the University of Liverpool.
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Local Trust
Local Trust was established to deliver Big Local, a unique initiative that puts residents across the country in control of decisions about their own lives and neighbourhoods. Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, it provides in excess of £1m of long-term funding over 10-15 years to 150 local communities that have historically missed out on lottery and other funding. Big Local is generating new and important learning and insight around the potential and limits of localism; the challenges of long term, place-based funding; and the limitless potential of local people to transform their own futures. We’ve just launched our first ever arts programme, Creative Civic Change, a joint initiative with the Big Lottery Fund and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) which will enable communities to transform themselves through arts and creativity. Our research project, The Future for Communities, shares findings from an 18-month research project asking ‘What needs to happen for communities to feel and be more powerful in the future?'.