An Exeter-based homelessness service has won a coveted national award for its work in helping to support rough sleepers in the city.
The Exeter Navigator Team, which is part of Exeter City Council’s Rough Sleeper Initiative, won the award for Excellence in support and navigation at Homeless Link’s national Excellence Awards 2023.
Cllr Martin Pearce, Lead Councillor for Communities and Homeless Prevention, praised the Exeter team for all their hard work in helping build back lives in the city.
“I am so proud of the team for their selfless dedication towards...
Hospitality venues, businesses and residents in and around Exeter are being invited to get involved in a campaign to help a homelessness charity support the growing numbers of rough sleepers.
In a drive to build momentum leading up to St Petrock’s Big Cream Tea , which takes place over the weekend of 8 and 9 July, the campaign launches this week, online and across traditional media.
The charity has recorded a light-hearted 30 second film with Naomi Cleaver, designer, author and television presenter , enthusiastically enjoying one of the nation’s best loved...
The number of people in Exeter forced to sleep on the streets or in vulnerable circumstances is set to soar, should major funding cuts proposed by Devon County Council go ahead.
Local charity, St Petrock’s, is warning of a homelessness crisis in the city on a scale not seen before.
Rough sleeping in Exeter doubled between 2021 and 2022, due to a range of factors, including service cuts, cost-of-living pressures and interest rate rises.
There are now typically around 30 people sleeping rough in and around the city, in addition to a very large number of people...
Julian House and BCHA have come together to form a ‘One Team’ approach aimed at ending rough sleeping in Exeter by the end of 2024. The Julian House Assertive Homeless Outreach Team and BCHA’s Housing First Team will co-locate and work together to prevent and end rough sleeping in the city.
The Rough Sleeping Prevention Team (RSPT), which is part of Exeter City Council’s Homeless and Rough Sleeping Strategy, began operating earlier this month and will increase provision to six days a week, with additional resources to prevent people from sleeping rough. The Team is being funded...
The first high profile Christmas campaign produced for the city’s homelessness charity will launch across the social media network today, in a five-week fundraising bid to help support people without a home in Exeter.
Coldplay support
Global superstars, Coldplay , have given consent for St Petrock’s to use the haunting and bittersweet Christmas Lights as the film’s soundtrack.
The campaign goes live today (Monday), thanks to the help of digital advertising experts at AB Brand and Marketing , who are not charging St Petrock’s for their time.
An Exeter-based homelessness charity launches a rolling online fashion show next week, in a bid to raise money for people without a home in the city, as the winter approaches and the cost of living crisis deepens.
In a campaign timed to launch on World Homeless Day (Monday 10 October), St Petrock’s, which provides food, clothes, survival equipment and other services for rough sleepers and those in temporary accommodation, is asking local people to #PoseforStPetrocks in its vintage clothing shop.
Petrock’s Place, based in Paris Street, sells items that are not practical...
Exeter City Council has secured major government funding to continue to address homelessness in the city.
The government today (Thursday 17 September) announced that Exeter would receive £440,000 from its Next Steps Accommodation Programme as part of a commitment to end rough sleeping.
The Next Steps programme sees £91.5 million given to 274 councils across the UK to help vulnerable people housed during the pandemic.
Working with partners across the city, the funding will allow the Council to continue to support those accommodated during Covid-19
Exeter City Council has launched an ambitious bid to address homelessness in the city.
If successful the Next Steps Accommodation Programme funding would continue to support those accommodated during Covid-19 and help to further address homelessness in the city.
The application with city partners looks to:
· Continue to provide accommodation until the end of March 2021 for the 42 accommodated under Covid and continue to reduce rough sleeping in the city
· Provide dedicated support for those accommodated in hotels
A book about Little Miss Homeless has been created to raise awareness of women's homelessness.
A not-for-profit parody of the Mr Men series, the story's main character leaves home due to domestic violence, stays in a night shelter, on a friend's sofa and on the streets.
Issues raised in the story (which is not for children) include drugs and sexual violence – and there is no happy ending for Little Miss Homeless.
Written by Harriet Earle-Brown, a PhD student at the University of Exeter, the story is available for free online.
The number of people recorded as homeless in the South West has reached 7,127, new figures from Shelter reveal today.
Shelter’s extensive analysis of official rough-sleeping and temporary accommodation figures shows the picture of homelessness in the region has not improved since 2016, when the charity first published its landmark annual report.
For the first time, the charity’s review of government data has also exposed that close to 22,000 people in the South West were threatened with homelessness in the last year.
Despite being the most comprehensive overview of...
