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Welcome to Community Housing Aid

…The new name for Exeter Homeless Action Group

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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: The Drapers Charitable Trust; The Big Lottery; The Dr and Mrs A Darlington Charitable Trust; BBC Children in Need; Northbrook Community Trust; Exeter City Council; Albert Hunt Trust; East Devon District Council; 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust; Teignbridge District Council; Provincial Grand Lodge of Devon; Mid Devon District Council; The Elmgrant Trust; Devon Supporting People; The Bernard Sunley Charitable Trust; Devon Partnership Trust; The Sidbury Trust; Devon and Cornwall Probation Service; Leonard Laity Stoate Charitable Trust; Exeter Positive Steps; The Pilgrim Trust; Henry Smith Charity; Lloyds TSB Foundation.