Doncaster New Deal for Communities (NDC) was set up to reduce inequality and social and economic exclusion among residents in parts of five areas of central Doncaster – Balby Woodfield, Balby Bridge, Hexthorpe, Hyde Park and Nether Hall. The Doncaster NDC programme runs from 2001- 11, led by local residents. Its accountable body is Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC), through which the funding goes and which employs the NDC staff team.

In Doncaster, the NDC covers five communities around the town centre: Balby Bridge and parts of Hyde Park, Hexthorpe, Nether Hall and Woodfield. It is run by a Community Interest Company (CIC): Doncaster Central Development Trust and DMBC – Doncaster Council is its accountable body.

NDC is a partnership of residents and local agencies, including DMBC, South Yorkshire Police, NHS Doncaster and Job Centre Plus. This partnership tackles the five most pressing challenges that communities face – improving health, reducing crime, raising educational achievement, investing in housing and the environment and boosting jobs, training and local enterprise. Our sixth theme is community engagement, which is crucial to achieving NDC’s aims and affects all our work. NDC commissions projects to impact on these themes, which are delivered by its partners and others in the public, voluntary and community sectors.