Local Trust
Laura Fisher is a skilled researcher with extensive experience in evaluation and data management within the youth sector. Currently at Local Trust since July 2019, Laura has played a key role in developing and implementing evaluation plans, managing data processes, and disseminating research findings. Previously, at London Youth from March 2014 to July 2019, Laura served as the Learning and Data Officer, leading on complex data analysis, training initiatives, and external evaluations. Educationally, Laura holds a Master of Research in Politics from Birkbeck, University of London, as well as a Master of Arts in International Social Development and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from the University of East Anglia.
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?'.