The 2010 plan was prepared with financial support from Communitybuilders and advice from Northumberland County Council. It replaced our 2008-2010 business plan, through which the Trust aimed to:

• Work to ensure trustees understand and are fully engaged with its work by developing a welcome pack for new trustees, working through project management committees, and establishing a trustees contract.
• Improve methods of consultation with the wider community to provide more opportunities for input into its plans.
• Re-consider the area that it works in and develop a strategic plan to take over from the market town action plan.
• Establish the legal structures appropriate for it to expand social enterprise activities, either a trading arm or a community-interest company.
• Improve staffing, financial and operational procedures by developing formal training plans, agreed financial procedures and a financial reserves policy.
• Consolidate training and youth provision at the community resource centre.
• Develop business support projects as social enterprises (book-keeping, business club, incubator units).
• Develop tourism projects as social enterprises (marketing, website, festival, branded goods, food)
• Conduct feasibility studies and, if viable, develop green businesses as social enterprises (renewable energy, recycling).
• Continue to support environmental improvements (footpaths, village orderly, retail area improvements).