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.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIL SOCIETY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: I. IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNITY-LED OR BASED VOLUNTARY AND CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DEVELOPMENT TRUSTS, SETTLEMENTS, SOCIAL ACTION CENTRES, COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES, AND SIMILAR ORGANISATIONS; II. PROVIDING A NETWORK OF COMMUNICATION, TRAINING SERVICES, SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO FACILITATE THE WORK OF SUCH ORGANISATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND PROMOTE AND ENABLE COMMUNITY-LED OR BASED APPROACHES TO IMPROVE NEIGHBOURHOODS; III. SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN AND INVOLVING INDIVIDUALS IN ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT SUCH ORGANISATIONS; IV. PROMOTING CO-OPERATION AND LIAISON BETWEEN SUCH ORGANISATIONS, INDIVIDUALS, STATUTORY BODIES AND LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CONNECTED WITH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, URBAN AND RURAL REGENERATION AND CONSERVATION; AND V. ACTING AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF SUCH ORGANISATIONS IN RELATION TO GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND LEGISLATION. FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE OBJECTS THE TERM "CIVIL SOCIETY" SHALL NOT INCLUDE POLITICAL PARTIES, AND OTHER BODIES WHOSE PURPOSE IS PRIMARILY POLITICAL AS THIS TERM IS UNDERSTOOD IN ENGLISH CHARITY LAW. (B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE WORK OF DEVELOPMENT TRUSTS, SETTLEMENTS, SOCIAL ACTION CENTRES, COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES, AND SIMILAR ORGANISATIONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

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

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02787912

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tony Armstrong — Chief Executive (source)
• Steve Sayers — Chair (source)
• Csaba Prodan — Director of Finance (source)
• Carole Reilly — Director of Services (source)
• Ed Wallis — Director of Policy and Engagement (source)
• Chris Wood — Director of Marketing and Partnerships (source)

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.

• GLANVILLE, Thomas Michael — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Angela — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• ROGERS, Sian — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• JUDGE, David Anthony — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• NUGENT, David — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• O'BRIAN, Bernadette — director, appointed 06/12/2023not on trustee list
• KINNEAR, Amy — director, appointed 07/11/2022on trustee list
• MITSON, Sarah Jeanine — director, appointed 27/01/2022on trustee list
• PATEL, Manjula Hiralal, Dr — director, appointed 16/11/2021on trustee list
• BALL, Adrian Stewart — director, appointed 11/11/2020on trustee list
• LANNING, Teresa — director, appointed 02/07/2020on trustee list
• BUTLER, Paul — director, appointed 13/11/2019on trustee list
• SAYERS, Stephen Frederick — director, appointed 15/11/2017on trustee list
• ARMSTRONG, Tony — secretary, appointed 21/07/2014

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)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Ball
• Amy Kinnear
• Angela Wright
• Bernadette O'Brien · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Judge
• David Nugent
• Dr Manjula Patel
• Paul Butler
• STEPHEN FREDERICK SAYERS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Mitson
• Sian Rogers
• Teresa Lanning
• Thomas Glanville

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 LOCAL TRUST.

• LOCAL TRUST income £2.1m
• LOCALGIVING FOUNDATION income £8.0m
• LONGLEY 4G LIMITED income £145k
• CITIZENS UK CHARITY income £12.0m
• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £313k
• WIGAN AND LEIGH COMMUNITY CHARITY income £275k

Side by side with its peers

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