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Development Trusts Association Scotland

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Founded
  
2001

Location
  
Edinburgh

Website
  
www.dtascot.org.uk/

Type
  
Charity

Area served
  
Scotland

Key people
  
Director: Ian Cooke. Chairman: Alex Walker

Development Trusts Association Scotland often referred to as DTAS is a charitable organisation that represents the interests of development trusts. Founded in 2003 and based in Edinburgh, by 2011 the membership was over 170.

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Development trusts

Development trusts are organisations that are:

  • owned and managed by the local community
  • involved in the sustainable regeneration of a community
  • independent and not for private profit, but seek to work in partnership with other private, voluntary and public sector organisations
  • aim to reduce dependency on grant support by generating income through enterprise and the ownership of assets.

    • The development trust movement began in England in the 1990s where the activities are run by "Locality" and DTAS has the other sister organisations of DTA Wales and DTA Northern Ireland.

    Activities

    DTAS runs a Community Ownership Support Service that seeks to "advance effective transfer of local authority assets to community ownership" and operates a consultancy service called "The Pool" and is represented on the Rural Development Council.

    DTAS is part of the Scottish Community Alliance.

    References

    Development Trusts Association Scotland Wikipedia
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