About Us

Survive and Thrive is a project of the Development Trusts Association in the South West. The DTA is the leading network of community enterprise practitioners dedicated to helping people set up development trusts and helping existing development trusts learn from each other and work effectively.

Development trusts are:

• community owned and led
• cultivating enterprise 
• developing community assets 
• transforming communities for good

Find out more about the movement and other support available from the DTA at www.dta.org.uk

The DTA is a member of the Community Alliance, a national partnership between bassac, Community Matters and the DTA. To find out more about the Community Alliance please go to www.comm-alliance.org

The project is funded by Capacitybuilders until 2011. Capacitybuilders is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) set up in 2006 to take over the management of the ChangeUp programme and to work with other funders to build the capacity of the Third Sector. They exist to create a more effective third sector and do this by improving support for third sector organisations.

Find out more about Capacitybuilders at www.capacitybuilders.org.uk

Survive and Thrive is one of four unique projects being supported in the South West of England which have been Co-ordinated by RISE; the voice for South West Social Enterprise.

Find out more about RISE at www.rise-sw.org.uk