The Development Trusts Association (DTA) exists to help members bring significant and lasting benefit and change to their communities. The DTA is a member led organisation that supports and promotes development trusts and shares the skills, experience and expertise of practitioners. The DTA fosters a belief in mutuality and collective action and works closely with others to attract investment and support for the community enterprise movement.
The DTA has close to 400 full and emerging development trusts in membership. Development trusts are enterprises, created, owned and led by communities, to enable sustainable development in their area through a mixture of social, economic and environmental initiatives. As independent not-for-(private) profit organisations, development trusts are committed to involving and being accountable to local people.
The DTA encourages the exchange of information and good practice by supporting nine regional networks and numerous specialist forums. We conduct research, publish information bulletins, and a range of publications in support of and to highlight the work of our members.
The DTA promotes the work of development trusts, advocates on their behalf by commenting on and contributing to public policy developments, briefing and lobbying central and local government, and liaising with a wide range of organisations at regional, national and European level.
The DTA’s mission is to bring about a successful development trust in every community that wants one.
Find out more about the Development Trusts Association, visit our website at
www.dta.org.uk.
