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Join ClinksExeter Community Initiatives (ECI) is a local charity that was started in 1993. The initial aim was to help local people facing poverty and homelessness, through projects such as St. Petrock’s. Since then our work has expanded to include Children’s Centres; projects that help the unemployed back to work; schemes to promote community cohesion and a mentoring service to support independent living. We work with Police, Health and Social Services to identify and support some of the most vulnerable families in the city.
We provide:
Family Support and group activities for any family in central Exeter with children under 5.
Adult mentoring through our Transitions project. We train and match volunteers to help adults make a transition into independent living.
1:1 support to families with children of any age who are struggling to cope with parenting or emotional and practical issues.
Employability and life skills for excluded young people.
We provide:
Family Support and group activities for any family in central Exeter with children under 5.
Adult mentoring through our Transitions project. We train and match volunteers to help adults make a transition into independent living.
1:1 support to families with children of any age who are struggling to cope with parenting or emotional and practical issues.
Employability and life skills for excluded young people.
Contact
Address
148-149 Fore Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3AN
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
01392 205800
info@eci.org.uk
Website
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Family support
Custody or Community
Community
No. of service users
15
No. of Paid Staff
17
No. of Volunteers
60
No. of peer mentors
5
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Legal status
Company limited by guarantee
Year of Formation
1993
Organisation's Income
£1m - £5m
Contract History
Supporting information
ECI has a long history of working in the criminal justice system. In 2004 we established the CARD project, a project that matched volunteer mentors with prisoners exiting HMP Exeter. At the same time we also ran a housing project that supported prolific and persistent offenders sustain tenancies. We are now running a mentoring project for a wider range of people including those with criminal histories. Alongside this we now offer a high quality family support service so the offender can be seen in the context of not only their criminal behaviour, but their family life as well.
Most recently we have been successful as part of the Creative Pathways consortium in winning funds to develop a fit for purpose consortium to bid for MoJ contracts.
We feel we could offer a robust local and complementary service with any partnership bid.
Most recently we have been successful as part of the Creative Pathways consortium in winning funds to develop a fit for purpose consortium to bid for MoJ contracts.
We feel we could offer a robust local and complementary service with any partnership bid.
Regions
South West
Devon
Area covered
1 or more local authorities
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy
Employment
Family support
Housing & homelessness
Mental health
Mentoring & befriending
Parenting skills
Peer support
Lived experience involvement
Volunteering
People you work with
Children
Families
LGBTQIA+
Men
People with disabilities
People on a short sentence
Racially minoritised people
Young people