Welcome to Weymouth Area Development Trust CIC

Join the hundreds of people who work to make Weymouth a great place to live!

Our Mission

‘To create a bright future for Weymouth through enterprise, employment, positive community action and empowerment’

Make a Difference!

We are a community led, not for profit company, set up by a group of local residents to bring people and organisations together so that we can create a brighter future for Weymouth through enterprise, employment, positive community action and empowerment.:

“We are about regenerative projects in three areas, community, economy and environment because we believe in making a difference. We can’t save the whole planet but we can start in our own Town!

Community - is about the people of Weymouth

Economy - is about the jobs they have and the businesses they run

Environment - is about the place we live in, the streets and the green spaces

Our Projects

Starfish Enterprise

A co-working hub in Weymouth Launched under the umbrella organisation, Weymouth Area Development Trust, Starfish Enterprise is a co-working space offering flexible, supportive and affordable space, where the local SME community can work, share space, ideas and energy. There are also other spaces for meetings or ‘virtual’ meetings and an ideal venue for local community

Tumbledown Farm

A 27 acre site on the edge of Weymouth Town to be re-purposed for the community to use in a variety of ways, including local food production, education and training, health and wellbeing and for local groups to meet in a safe place for a variety of environmental and social activities.

Weymouth Community led Affordable Homes Group

Community Land Trust focused on building affordable homes for people with a local connection, and reserving a percentage of those for young people.

Totally Locally

Local independent businesses are supporting each other to encourage people to shop locally so that we can keep the wealth in the Town and help local businesses to survive and thrive. Working with Weymouth Bid we now have 79 members in the scheme. To read more about the reasons we should all shop local or

Weymouth Farmers and Makers Market

As a result of huge support from the people of Weymouth, we have joined with Weymouth BID, Weymouth Town Council and Dorset Council to bring a Farmers Market back to Weymouth. Best in Dorset Market have agreed to run it and so it will be held every 2nd Sunday of the month 10am-3pm just outside

Weymouth Farmers & Makers Market

December 13, 2020

10:00 am

Last Weymouth Farmers’ & Makers market of 2020 will be on Sunday 13th December starting at 10am.

Weymouth Town Council backsTumbledown Project

Last week the full Town Council gave the Tumbledown Project its unanimous backing. They approved the creation of a Project Board that will be supported by the new Friends of Tumbledown Group and a wider Advisory Partnership Group of specialist organisations eg English Nature. They also approved £25,000 of funding to make Tumbledown Farm safe

Thank You Transition Towns

Transition Towns – Weymouth is supporting the Tumbledown Project with the purchase of tools and equipment that will enable groups to access Tumbledown and join in the activities needed to prepare the land for next year’s growing. Project Manager, Clive Tuck said “It is great to have Transition Towns supporting the start up of this

Dorset Council Team Away Day at Tumbledown

A special thank you to Knighton Countryside Management, based at Piddlehinton, Dorchester for their generous donations of fencing, fence posts, gates and tools. The Adult’s Social Services Team of the Weymouth Local Office spent the day at Tumbledown helping to get part of the site ready for next year. Alan Chambers (Locality Manager) is

Items of Interest

From time to time we come across information that may be useful to others and we share it accordingly. These posts ae general posts and are not connected with our current projects. We find always find that it is good to share! These posts can be viewed on our General Posts page. Feel free to

Building work starts at Tumbledown

Positive progress is being made with building work starting on one of the existing but dilapidated buildings. Exciting times!!

Join Us

If you’d like to join us, get involved or keep in touch with what we’re doing then get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.