Publications

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DTAS Tabloid

The latest publication from DTAS which showcases the work of eight member organisations from across Scotland highlighting what can be achieved by committed groups of people who have the imagination and determination to take control over what is happening in their communities and driving forward programmes of local improvements

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Inspiring Change

Creating a successful development trust. A resource (including CD) for communities who are motivated and ready to take action but need inspiration and information to take their first steps towards making their ideas a reality.

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So you want to set up a Development Trust?

A guide for those looking to set up a trust and answers some of the main questions such as: What is a development trust? How can a development trust benefit your community? What steps can you take to start a development trust?

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Start-up Toolkit

A comprehensive guide in 3 sections:
Module 1: Introducing development trusts, checking that the group is an emerging development trust and choosing a legal structure for the trust.
Module 2: Developing a Governing Document and registering the Company Limited by Guarantee in a form that will be able to obtain charitable status from Inland Revenue Charities Section.
Module 3: Roles and Responsibilities of Company Directors in a Company Limited by Guarantee with Charitable Status.
The Toolkit is designed to enable groups to chose and set up an appropriate legal structure for a development trust.

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Brief Guide to Employing People

A guide for development trusts which highlights the main areas of importance when becoming an employer

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Guide to Setting Up a Trading Subsidiary

A guide for development trusts that are registered charities and planning to become involved in trading activities that are non-charitable. Written by Stephen Phillips, a specialist in charity law, the guide is designed to take a development trust through each step of the set-up process.

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Demystifying the use of the term "Trust"

This guide has been produced in an attempt to pin down more precisely what is and is not a trust in the legal sense of the word.

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Cultivating Enterprise

DTA Toolkit for starting up successful development trusts and enterprising community organisations.
Section 1: Getting the basics right
Section 2: Getting organised
Section 3: Being enterprising
Section 4: Looking after your money
Section 5: Do you really make a difference?

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Bearing Fruit

Report on good practice in asset based rural community development.

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The Green Asset Guide

Help with improving the environmental performance of built assets.

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To Have & to Hold

Guide to asset development for community & social enterprises. This guide provides a broad range of information and resources to be used to develop a land or buildings project that is an asset for an organisation and a community.

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Swimming Pool Guide

A guide with case studies which highlights the key considerations for community management and ownership of swimming pools.

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Bonds & Bridges

A DTA practitioners Guide to Community Diversity

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Better to Borrow?

A booklet on how development trusts use loan finance to achieve community goals.

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Community Share & Bond Issues

Can a share or bond issue be straightforward & beneficial?

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On the borderline: development trusts tackling poverty

This publication tells the stories of a few development trusts who have made it their business to tackle poverty issues at the local level.

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Early Warning Guide

So as a board member or manager you'll never have to say "I wish I'd said something sooner".

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History of Community Ownership

Written by Steve Wyler, Director of the DTA, this publication provides a concise history of community asset ownership in the UK, an idea that has been in existence in the uk for hundreds of years.

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Community Ownership in Scotland - A Baseline study

This study seeks to assist in measuring the impact of, and targeting future, policy interventions aimed at increasing the number of assets in community ownership in Scotland..

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