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Trust for Developing Communities

Trust for Developing Communities Annual Report and Accounts 2024–2025

The Trust for Developing Communities (TDC) is Brighton and Hove's leading community development charity, working with 22,844 people facing poverty and exclusion in 2024/25 across neighbourhood development, youth work, health inequalities, employability, community research and equalities programmes. Key work includes leading the citywide Brighton Streets detached youth work partnership, hosting youth workers in the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital Emergency Department, running Act on Cancer Together (reaching 18,000+ people), and distributing the Household Support Fund and Fairness Fund directly to grassroots groups. Over 2,000 community members contributed 160,000+ hours of volunteering. TDC has secured £6.1 million in new contracts starting from April 2025.

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Neighbourhood community development in deprived areas; Youth clubs (open access, Connect Coaching, Brighton Streets detached youth work, hospital youth work at Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, Turnaround early intervention programme); Act on Cancer Together (18,000+ reached, 2,000 meaningful conversations); Healthy Communities (Integrated Community Teams); Core Connectors (NHS-funded health inequalities outreach); Multicultural Employability Support Hub (MESH) for refugees and ethnically diverse communities; Community Employability Support Hub (CESH); Household Support Fund; Fairness Fund; Ukrainian Refugee Support Programme; Social Prescribing Plus; UOK mental health support for Black and Racially Minoritised communities; Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR); Robert Lodge Health Hub; Community Learning Programme Custom geography from upload: Brighton and Hove, UK

📊Key Metrics

22,844 people facing poverty and exclusion supported; 202 community-led groups supported; 2,194 young people worked with through neighbourhood youth clubs Key Metric 1
59,030 people directly supported to address health issues; 813 people supported with employability (55 into new jobs); 59 community groups received £88,151 through the Fairness Fund Key Metric 2
2,000+ community members provided 160,000+ hours of volunteering; £2,253,530 total income; 60 staff working 1,300 hours per week Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 59% of young people at youth clubs from the three most deprived IDACI deciles; 33% have SEND or an EHCP — both the highest proportions of any youth work provider in Brighton and Hove
  • TDC secured £4.8 million Thriving Communities Investment Fund contract (Lead Partner) and £1.3 million Climate for Communities National Lottery grant — both starting April 2025; projected record income of £3 million in 2025/26
  • 26% of people worked with from Black and Racially Minoritised communities; 33% had a disability or SEN; 7,200+ older people supported; 86 partner organisations across 28 formal partnerships, of which TDC led nine

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