Local Trust
Ezra Gill is an experienced Area Coordinator at Local Trust since July 2022, previously serving as a Program Officer at W12Together from January 2021 to July 2022. During this time, Ezra also held the position of Junior Editor for The Local, a community newsletter supported by W12Together. Prior experience includes roles as Deputy Head of News at Burst Radio, the university radio station associated with Bristol University, and as a Peer Mentor at the University of Bristol, where Ezra earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from 2017 to 2020.
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?'.