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
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
- 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 4.8 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
- 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.
- 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
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
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