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The Development Trusts Association is the leading network of community enterprise practitioners dedicated to helping people set up development trusts and helping existing development trusts learn from each other and work effectively.

Development trusts are:

  • community owned and led
  • cultivating enterprise
  • developing community assets
  • transforming communities for good

Development trusts are community enterprises working to create wealth in communities and keep it there. They trade on a 'not-for-personal-profit' basis, re-investing surplus back into their community and effecting social, economic and environmental, or 'triple bottom line', outcomes.

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Find out how Acumen Development Trust is tackling poverty of aspiration: "If we can get people to the stage where instead of life being in control of them, they are taking control of their own life...then we are giving people a sustainable route out of poverty"
 

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