Encompass Southwest

Provides a range of services to people across Northern Devon who are experiencing crisis and hardship. Works to prevent and resolve homelessness, rough sleeping and to reduce the impact of poverty and financial exclusion. Services include advice, advocacy and referrals around housing, benefits, money and debt and practical help including food parcels and clothes provision.

Navigate CIO

Debt/money advice service and financial capability courses provided in certain areas of Devon and Somerset.

Coalition of Disabled People South Devon/Disability Support Torbay

Range of services for children and adults with disabilities. Welfare rights and advocacy service. Representation at appeals and tribunals.

University Of Exeter Students' Guild Advice Service

The Students' Guild Advice Unit provides free, independent and confidential advice and information on a range of issues affecting students, including: Housing/Money/Academic.

HM Probation Service - Exeter Probation Office

Provides Probation Support Services

Julian House - Homeless Outreach Team (Formerly Community Housing Aid)

We have an Assertive Outreach Team who go out onto the streets of Exeter to help people off the streets and into accommodation. The service works assertively with all rough sleepers / Those leading street-based lifestyles which may involve begging and street-drinking. The outreach team pro-actively identifies rough sleepers through regular outreach sessions and responds swiftly to local reports of people sleeping rough or engaged in street-based activity. It takes a multi-agency and person-centred approach to supporting people off the streets and into appropriate accommodation and services, as quickly as possible. It seeks to secure a rapid, supported re-connection for rough sleepers who are not from the local area. It actively works with the whole community to improve the lives of rough sleepers, increase understanding and awareness of rough sleeping and reduce anti-social behaviour and to improve the environment.

West Devon Borough Council Housing Department

Assessment of entitlement to housing for people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. Temporary accommodation provided for people considered in priority need of housing. Temporary accommodation may be available while enquiries are made about eligibility. General housing advice and information for private and Housing Association tenants and homeless people. Rent deposit scheme.

Samaritans of Plymouth, East Cornwall and South West Devon

Telephone helpline (116 123) operating 24 hours a day offering emotional support for anyone in crisis. Offers a listening and befriending service to people who are isolated, need to talk, feel in despair or who are suicidal. The national Samaritans number (116 123) can also put callers through without delay to their nearest unengaged branch.

North Devon Care and Repair

Home improvement agency offering advice and assistance to older people (60+) and disabled people of any age, who are home owners, private tenants and who need to repair, adapt or improve their homes. Advice on technical aspects of the work, finding reliable builders and arranging estimates, overseeing the work, ways of funding the work, benefit entitlement.

East Devon Children’s Centre

Action for Children’s Devon Children’s centres provide Early Help, to the whole family from pregnancy through to aged eight, when families most need support using the “team around the family” approach. In East Devon, we have Children's Centres in Axe Valley, Exmouth, Honiton, Ottery St Mary and Sidmouth. Early Help means taking action to support a child, young person or their family early in the life of a problem, as soon as it emerges. It can be required at any stage in a child’s life from pre-birth to adulthood, and applies to any problem or need that a family needs support to resolve. It also applies to all children and young people, with any form of need. In Devon, Early Help is made up of service users, community resources, and a range of service providers who will work together to enable families to manage their own dilemmas and solve their own problems, making changes to secure the well-being of their children. Early Help can be provided in the most complex of circumstances as well as the simplest. Early Help means responding promptly if a child is at immediate risk of harm (or has other significant or complex needs), as much as it means responding to a need which only requires advice or guidance.From April 2018, our Children’s Centres across Devon will provide a range of services to support any parent with a child aged eight years and under who feels they would benefit from Early Help.