LOCALITY (UK)

Registered charity 1036460 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as D T A, DEVELOPMENT TRUSTS ASSOCIATION, LOCALITY

Locality is the national network of ambitious and enterprising community-led organisations, working together to help neighbourhoods thrive. Our network is a strong, collective voice inspiring community action to create a fair and diverse society where local people determine their future together.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£9.1m
Latest spending
£9.1m
Registered
1994
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with an unrestricted deficit of £63k, primarily due to restructuring costs, and reported a £360k impairment on its investment property. Despite these losses, the charity maintained closing free reserves of £721k, which the Trustees consider a reasonable level in line with their target, allowing them to confirm the entity can continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £721k)
“The free reserves target calculated last year was £740k. As at 30th June 2025, free reserves stood at £721k, a deficit on the set target by (£19k).” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Payments to connected organisations
“The total payments for services or goods made to Locality Trustees or organisations connected to Locality Trustees during the year was £10,582 (2024: £16498) ; Canopy Housing Project £75 (2024: £0); Cardigan Centre £255 (2024:£0); Murray Hall Community Trust £5152 (2024: £112); Rotunda Ltd £5,000 (2024: £0);Windmill Hill City Farm £100 (2024 £0); Waltham Forest Community Hub £0 (2024: £60). The total bursaries or grants awarded during the year to Locality member organisations of which a Locality Trustee is an employee or Trustee was £10,125 (2024: £27,564). These were for Canopy Housing Project £75 (2024: £0) ; Murray Hall Community Trust £5,000 (2024: £4,500); Rotunda Ltd £5,000 (2024: £8,974); Windmill Hill City Farm £50 (2024 £0); Fromehall Mill Community Benefit Society Limited £0 (2024: £9,820); Selby Trust £0 (2024: £3,000); Hackney Co-operative Developments £0 (2024: £1000); Creative Sustainability CIC £0 (2024: £270). The total income for services or goods from organisations connected to Locality Trustees during the year was £19,032 (2024: £28,790). This income was received from Social Investment Buisness Limited £12,932 (2024: £0); Libraries Unlimited £250 (2024: £250); Manchester Settlement £1,450 (2024: £250); Murray Hall Community Trust £1,450 (2024: £1,450); Windmill Hill City Farm £250 (2024: £250); Creative Sustainability CIC £250 (2024:£0); Cardigan Community Centre £250 (2024:£0); Finsbury Park Trust £250 (2024: 250); Canopy Housing £250 (2024:£0); Leeds Community Homes £250 (2024:£0) and East Durham Trust £1,450 (2024:£0) All activities with connected organisations were carried out on an arm's length basis in the normal course of activities and on terms no more favourable than for any other member organisation.” — page 36
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income
£9.1m
Total spending
£9.1m
Reserves (reported)
£721k
Employees
50

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£9.1m£9.1m
30/06/2024£10.3m£10.6m
30/06/2023£8.0m£8.3m
30/06/2022£7.1m£7.5m
30/06/2021£7.5m£7.2m

Common questions

Is LOCALITY (UK) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with an unrestricted deficit of £63k, primarily due to restructuring costs, and reported a £360k impairment on its investment property. Despite these losses, the charity maintained closing free reserves of £721k, which the Trustees consider a reasonable level in line with their target, allowing them to confirm the entity can continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MHA.

Who funds LOCALITY (UK)?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LOCALITY (UK) as a grant recipient include POWER TO CHANGE TRUST, THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTS, JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
POWER TO CHANGE TRUSTFY2022£400kCommunity Tech: Makers and Maintainers Fund
POWER TO CHANGE TRUSTFY2022£129kFinancial Capabilities pilots
THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTSFY2022£32kGrant from list of funders thanked
JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATIONFY2022£30kLocality
JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATIONFY2024£0Advancing JRF's thinking on Re-imagining Wealth, Funding & Investment

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation18/03/2026£36kGrant to Locality
City Bridge Foundation12/01/2026£45kGrant to Locality
City Bridge Foundation13/10/2025£14kGrant to Locality
City Bridge Foundation18/06/2025£60kGrant to Locality
City Bridge Foundation27/01/2025£60kGrant to Locality
City Bridge Foundation20/03/2024£80kGrant to Locality
Sport England20/06/2022£153kCOVID 19 - Tackling Inequalities Fund
City Bridge Foundation23/07/2021£75kGrant to Locality
City Bridge Foundation28/01/2021£150kGrant to Locality
The National Lottery Community Fund15/05/2020£690kCOVID 19 Support Programme
City Bridge Foundation31/01/2019£162kGrant to Locality
City Bridge Foundation14/11/2018£150kGrant to Locality
The National Lottery Community Fund18/04/2018£158kPlace Based Social Action (PBSA) Support Contract - Service Fees - BLF
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch31/05/2016£16kLocality (UK)
The National Lottery Community Fund09/10/2014£236kPower to Change Interim Support Services
The National Lottery Community Fund22/01/2009£465kLondon VCS Premises Project
Northern Rock Foundation10/07/2007£117kGrant awarded to Development Trusts Association (North East)
The National Lottery Community Fund23/01/2007£13kCultivating Enterprise
The National Lottery Community Fund11/11/2006£3.7mINTEGRO: Integrated regional support to grow community organisations
Northern Rock Foundation24/08/2006£4kGrant awarded to Development Trusts Association (North East)
Northern Rock Foundation11/07/2006£60kGrant awarded to Development Trusts Association (Northumberland)
The National Lottery Community Fund12/05/2006£170kINTEGRO: Integrated regional support to grow community organisations
Northern Rock Foundation12/07/2005£37kGrant awarded to Development Trusts Association (North East)
Northern Rock Foundation19/04/2005£6kGrant awarded to Development Trusts Association (Northumberland)
Northern Rock Foundation15/03/2004£112kGrant awarded to Development Trusts Association (North East)

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LOCALGIVING FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LOCALITY (UK)£9.1m——below—no doubt
LOCALGIVING FOUNDATION FY2025£8.0m£100,001 - £110,0001below—no doubt
NEPHRA GOOD NEIGHBOURS CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION FY2025£159k—0unclear—no doubt
CROWBOROUGH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2024£186k—0unclear—no doubt
THE FITZROVIA COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED FY2024£390k—0below—no doubt
LANGWORTHY CORNERSTONE ASSOCIATION LTD FY2025£513k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.