Local charity Exeter YMCA is issuing the challenge, to those with a daring heart, to run the Great West Run on behalf of Exeter YMCA wearing an imaginative costume. The runner with the most impressive costume will receive two day passes at the Exeter Golf and Country Club as a prize.
Exeter YMCA Chief Executive, Peter Stephenson, said, ‘For most of us a half marathon is gruelling enough but some people are looking for that extra edge. Dressing up as your favourite superhero, a fairy, a gorilla, or whatever idea you have, will make the event a greater challenge, will be good fun and...
Plans for supporting homeless people in East Devon will not be amended to include new hotel accommodation in Exmouth, it was confirmed this week.
With numbers of homeless people housed in B&Bs at historically low levels anyway, EDDC bosses have rubbished allegations that the town’s new Premier Inn is being lined up to use for such a purpose.
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"Claims that plans are afoot for EDDC to ask Premier Inn to help house the homeless are fanciful nonsense," said Cllr Jill Elson, EDDC Cabinet Member for Sustainable Homes and Communities. "We have certainly not...
Homeless people in Teignbridge are being given the chance to live in their own home after Teignbridge District Council gained a £100,000 Government funding boost. Teignbridge has been given the Empty Homes Programme funding by the Homes and Communities Agency to bring empty homes back into use as affordable properties. Teignbridge was one of 10 authorities in the South West to benefit from the funding announced by Communities Minister Don Foster today (Thursday June 20). The council’s housing team will be working with private sector landlords to bring empty properties and commercial...
An Exeter charity has described claims by work and pensions minister Ian Duncan Smith that he could live on £53 a week as “ridiculous and insensitive”. Matt Bell, chief executive of Exeter Community Initiatives, a charity that runs projects to help people facing poverty and homelessness, was speaking following a meeting of organisers of the city’s soup kitchens. “I think it is incredibly insensitive for a man like Ian Duncan Smith to claim he knows what it feels like to live in poverty. It’s ridiculous,” he said. “I don’t think he knows what real poverty is.” Yesterday a petition of almost...
A homeless charity aiming to set up a community in Exeter has made an appeal for volunteers and support.
Emmaus is a national organisation with many high profile supporters such as Terry Waite and the Duchess of Cornwall. Trustee Louise Toomer was speaking at a ‘High Tea and Talk’ event organised by Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI), a charity that runs community projects to support people facing poverty and homelessness, held at St Sidwell’s Community Centre last week.
Emmaus has a series of communities across the UK that offer people who have been homeless a supportive...
Why not try home and garden maintenance company with a difference? Project Petrock is a social enterprise set up by Exeter-based charity, St Petrock’s, with the aim of helping people who are or have been homeless into work or training.
Project Petrock aims to help people by providing volunteering in ‘real work’ situations. Volunteers gain on-the-job training from an experienced builder while making meaningful use of their time and gaining a current volunteering record. Since March this year, of the 18 volunteers joining the project, two have gone into employment and three into...
Exeter-based charity, St Petrock’s, as set up a home and garden maintenance project with a difference.
Project Petrock aims to help people who are or have been homeless into work or training by providing volunteering in ‘real work’ situations.
Project Petrock’s Training Supervisor, Mat Tandy explains said: “Our volunteers want to be busy but find it extremely difficult to find work and meaningful occupation. By volunteering with us, the volunteers know that their labours contribute to keeping the project going in more ways than merely raising funds.”
Sweeping changes to the benefits system, due to come into force next year, could see a rise in the number children being taken into care and more homeless people in Exeter, according to charities and welfare organisations in the city.
Earlier this year the Government announced a series of reforms designed to target those avoiding work because benefits are more lucrative for them.
However at a summit of Exeter groups last week, concerns were expressed that the some of the changes will affect the most vulnerable.
If your company is planning a Christmas Party this year, could we ask you to consider giving £1 per person to help a local charity support people who are homeless?
St Petrock's has been providing emergency survival services as well as advice and referral to local people in crisis for over 18 years. In that time, we have helped over 10,000 individuals. In the last 12 months, we have helped 1,396 homeless and vulnerably housed people through our services and 806 have been supported into accommodation.
This winter, again, we plan to open up the centre during...
Exeter's new designer charity boutique on Paris Street, Sprout, which raises funds for homeless charity Emmaus, will be officially launched on Wednesday 6th October by Terry Waite, the charity's President and former special envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury who was taken captive in Lebanon in 1987 whilst negotiating the release of Western hostages. The shop was decorated by a team of former homeless people, who rolled up their sleeves for the charity that helped them to get their lives back on track.
Emmaus Exeter will use funds raised by Sprout Boutique to help combat the...
