Wolseley Community and Economic Development Trust

About Us

OUR VISION AND OBJECTIVES

To involve the local community in fully managing and assisting with the economic and community regeneration of our own inner-city area of Plymouth.

To help real lifestyle improvements in the form of jobs, health, wealth and business opportunities, to benefit people from our inner-city area.

To become largely self-sufficient, reducing grant dependency by sustaining our community activities through our own trading, generating surplus from managing our assets developed from capital funding and recycling this money to help provide services for local people.

We are:

A Community Economic Development Trust with a local membership of over 600 local residents. Any local business or community organisations in our catchment area can join to be a Member of the Trust, free of charge. Our activities continue to be shaped and influenced by community consultation.

An independent Community Managed Company Limited by Guarantee. Our experienced Management Board reflects our partnership ethos of democratic involvement and empowerment; the majority being elected from our community resident Membership. We are accountable to our community Membership for all our activities.

A successful and respected Partner working alongside the private and public sector to deliver local and city-wide regeneration initiatives

A model of community and asset management which continues to be followed and adopted by fellow Trusts both locally and nationally.