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Welcome to Community Housing Aid

…The new name for Exeter Homeless Action Group

Need advice or just want to talk? Call 01392 430228. Calls are confidential.

Community Housing Aid is a charity that has been offering housing advice and support for 15 years. The Charity’s objectives are to relieve poverty, sickness and distress among persons within the City of Exeter and surrounding local authority areas who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness.

OUR MISSION: to empower individuals in need of housing to find their own solutions by working with them to remove the obstacles that face them.

OUR CORE VALUES: Community Housing Aid believes that everyone has the right to suitable, sustainable, secure and affordable housing.

Community Housing Aid exists to advise and support people who wish to exercise this right.

WHAT DO WE DO?
Community Housing Aid runs four key projects that help tackle and resolve the causes of homelessness.

SMARTMOVE - a rent deposit guarantee scheme for people on low incomes to help them move into private rented accommodation. We only take referrals from our nominated referrers. These are: Exeter, East, and Mid-Devon Councils.

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NIGHTSTOP - an emergency overnight accommodation service for young people aged 16-25 yrs old. See Nightstop on (click here)

HOUSING/BENEFIT ADVICE - access to housing and benefit advice via our telephone helpline or through one of our outreach surgeries.

RESETTLEMENT - an accommodation finding and tenancy support service for people leaving Wonford Hospital and for ex-offenders leaving prison.

Community Housing Aid is Exeter’s leading provider of independent housing advice, support, care and resettlement services to homeless and vulnerable people.

Many thanks to the following key funders of our work: Ms M Argent, BBC Children in Need, Big Lottery, L Browne, Chapman Charity, Chelsea Building Society, Chudleigh Parish Council, Clyst St Mary Parish Council, Devon & Cornwall Probation Area, Devon County Councillors, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Dulverton Trust, East Devon District Council, Exeter City Council, Exeter College, Exeter Quakers, Exeter School, Garfield Weston Foundation, Renée Hall, The Jamieson-Bystock Trust, Beatrice Laing Trust, Lloyds TSB Foundation, The MSE Charity, Michelmores Breakfast Club, Mid Devon District Council, The Norman Family Trust, Northbrook Community Trust, Odin Charitable Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, Scottish Power Energy People, The Sidbury Trust, Henry Smith Charity, South Devon Residential Landlords Association, W F Southall Trust, John Stone, The Bernard Sunley Charitable Trust, Teignbridge District Council, The Trusthouse Charitable Trust, Trowers & Hamlins, Uffculme School, M Wheeler, Wonford House.