Government and Community
Desborough comes under Northamptonshire County Council and Kettering Borough Council, as well as having its own Town Council.
It is one of the founding 12 members of the Charter of European Rural Communities and through this has links with 26 other EU member towns and villages. Through the Desborough and District Twinning Association the town is twinned with Neuville de Poitou in the Vienne departement of France and with Bievre in Belgium.
The Desborough Community Development Trust campaigns for improvements to the town.
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