DiverseCity Development Trust

Registered charity 1194452 · since 2021diversecitytrust.org·Manchester, Sheffield·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

  • Its themes of health equity, racial and social equity, youth civic action, community organisation development and community engagement are the first thing to check your work against.
  • Its stated priorities are Sheffield and Manchester, and no exclusions are stated.
  • The annual report gives no grants figure, so no typical request size can be given, and it would be sensible to ask the contact shown what would be realistic before setting an amount.
  • No application process is published, so get in touch first rather than sending a full proposal cold.
  • Its stated approach is collaborative and built on relationships with communities, so a short introduction to your community links may matter more than a formal application.

Overview

DiverseCity Development Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1194452).

DiverseCity Development Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales that works to promote social inclusion in Sheffield and surrounding areas. It focuses on socially excluded communities, with a particular emphasis on racial and social equity. Its programmes include the CiviAct Consortium, which aims to support a proportion of the core delivery costs of six community-led youth organisations, and partnerships with activist organisations across Sheffield, Manchester and beyond.

What they fund

Priority Areas

DiverseCity Development Trust focuses on socially excluded communities, with a particular emphasis on racial and social equity. It works to improve equity in health for underserved communities and to strengthen the infrastructure, governance and financial management of voluntary community and faith organisations working in racial and social equity. Its partnerships with activist organisations support youth- and community-led civic action. Through the CiviAct consortium, it financially supports a proportion of core delivery costs for community-led youth organisations. Its wider work supports community engagement and co-development across health, education, employment and housing, and seeks to increase the representation of underserved communities in decision-making. Its approach is collaborative: it builds meaningful relationships and partnerships with communities and backs transformative approaches undertaken by organisations accountable to communities, on their own terms.

Themes

  • Health equity
  • Racial and social equity
  • Youth civic action
  • Community organisation development
  • Community engagement

Geographic Focus

Priority: Sheffield; Manchester.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry, its website or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

  • Manchester
  • Sheffield

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4 years of accounts

Financial yearIncomeExpenditureGrants paidAccounts document
year to 31 March 2022£244,126£173,726—Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023£259,514£262,816—Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024£70,327£128,758—Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025£238,292£262,199—Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.

Sources

This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.

Sources last checked on 25 October 2026.

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