About Us

East Doncaster Development Trust (EDDT)have been in existence since 2000 and our aims include providing opportunities for the local community, bringing local groups and individuals together and learning them new skills, via courses, workshops we encourage participation and teamwork whilst providing individuals with an opportunity to gain qualifications. We are also proactive in getting people involved with community activities, furthermore the number of volunteers in community work is growing as people recognise and value the good work that we are achieving.

Economic inclusion and worklessness is a key challenge for EDDT as our primary objective is to get people who face particular challenges ready and fit for work by enhancing their skills, and boosting their confidence and self esteem. Work is the main route out of poverty, people who work are better off financially, better off in term of their health and well-being, their self esteem and the future prospects for themselves and their families. Work promotes choice and independence for people, support our society and increases community cohesion.

Our aim is to make sure that no child grows up in poverty, and supporting parents to help them into work and to acquire the skills they need to enter and progress in work is the best way in achieving this.

We work with people that are below the poverty line; that have been out of work for many years; that are disadvantaged; that have lost faith in themselves or society.Our overall goal is to improve peoples lives.

EDDT takes a progressive, forward thinking approach to everything we do. We understand that the needs of Individuals and organisations are forever changing. That's why we are constantly evolving and growing our services in key areas such as Employment support and Education and Skills.

We work with clients to remove the barriers and problems which prevent them from entering the labour market. For some this will take a matter of weeks - for a less fortunate few, this may take many months or even years.

Our team of staff and volunteers work from our Community Resource Centre which opened in November 2008, the facilities available to the community include a jobs desk and jobs board, IT suite, training room / meeting room and interview rooms.