Torbay Community Development Trust Ltd

Torbay Communities, rooted in asset-based community development, empowers local voluntary, community, and social enterprise organizations to foster inclusive, resilient neighbourhoods tackling social exclusion and deprivation. Their values emphasize community-led empowerment, partnership collaboration across third sector and statutory bodies, health and wellbeing enhancement, and social connectivity, believing sustainable change arises from leveraging local strengths, building organizational capacity, and enabling grassroots groups to drive long-term social return through innovation, volunteering, and self-sustaining initiatives.

They prioritize reducing social isolation via communal helplines and outreach support for older people and isolated residents in deprived wards, mental health initiatives including youth counselling and therapeutic activities for young people facing anxiety or exclusion, disability support encompassing provision for physical disabilities, learning disabilities, and complex health needs through inclusive day services and equipment, child and youth development with after-school clubs, mentoring, and employability training to prevent exclusion, carer support and family wellbeing programs addressing exhaustion from caring for disabled children or elderly relatives, volunteering schemes and timebanking exchanges promoting peer support groups and community enterprise, capacity-building workshops nurturing governance and financial independence for grassroots charities, and collaborative projects strengthening social cohesion via befriending, creative arts, and preventative community-led interventions for disadvantaged families and individuals experiencing poverty or loneliness.

They exclude political or religious promotional activities, ineligible national organization branches, and individual-focused benefits, prioritizing grassroots groups with community governance serving deprived Torbay wards' most isolated elderly residents, disabled people, socially excluded youth, and families in crisis. Distinctive for deep local embedding, strategic partnerships blending loans and grants for sustainability, and commitment to asset-based, holistic approaches over transactional aid, they uniquely champion volunteering innovation and voluntary sector resilience for enduring wellbeing in high-deprivation urban communities.