Home-Start Exeter, East & Mid Devon
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Exeter Groups re-open June 2026
Following the devastating floods earlier this year, we're happy to tell you that the Beacon Community Centre in Exeter has re-opened and our groups can commence again. Mothers in Mind - a referral only group for women in the perinatal period who are struggling with...
Group Facilitator vacancy
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Group Facilitator to join our small friendly team, to run and help develop our group offer and build links with referrers. Home-Start Exeter, East and Mid Devon has been supporting local families for 40 years, and our...
Funding News! The National Lottery Community Fund
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £496,546, over five years, from The National Lottery Community Fund to strengthen our work with families with young children who are facing challenging times. This project, A Fairer Start, will enable...
Our new Groups for mothers, babies, and families
We've recently made some changes to our offer of Group support and are now in Honiton as well as Exeter. We're delighted to be in the wonderful Parental Minds Community Hub in Honiton. We have a Bumps and Babes session in the morning for pregnant mothers and...
BBC Children In Need Funding
We are very happy to announce that thanks to a BBC Children in Need Grant we can continue our work providing home-visiting volunteers to support families, with young children, who are experiencing parenting challenges. These visits help to improve positive family...
Dads Domain – now closed
Dads' Domain - Update (Nov 2025) Our free fortnightly group project for dads and dads to be, which opened in January 2024 in Exeter, has now come to a close. We'd like to thank Matt Young for his time and energy providing a supportive, non-judgmental space where dads...
New grant from Cranbrook Town Council
Cranbrook Town Council generously awarded Home-Start Exeter, East and Mid Devon a grant of £1400 towards our work in the area. We have two groups, both based at Cranbrook Education Campus, to support families in the town and so we are hugely grateful to the Town...
Exeter Community Lottery
Can you help us with our fundraising? We are excited to be a part of the Exeter Community Lottery raising much needed funds for our charity so that we can continue to support local families in Exeter, East Devon and Mid Devon. Tickets for the lottery cost just £1 per...
Princesshay charity of the year
Princesshay has announced Home-Start Exeter, East & Mid Devon as its charity of the year. The partnership will see fundraising and awareness events happen throughout the year in Princesshay with the aim of recruiting more volunteers and raising awareness of the...
The Big Give
A huge THANK YOU! In just 2 weeks we raised £1025 which has been match funded to a whopping £2050 to support our Mothers in Mind Group @ Home-Start EEMD Your donation is helping a group of mothers who feel isolated, particularly after the impact of Covid, and may be...
Give a Little Love
Families are running on empty. The pandemic has been toughest on those already struggling. But we’ve also seen communities coming together. We want to keep that spirit of generosity alive by encouraging everyone to give a little love at Christmas and give their time,...
Capturing the spirit of generosity in our communities
A new partnership launched today between Home-Start, FareShare, John Lewis and Waitrose aims to create an outpouring of kindness to help Britain’s struggling families this Christmas. This festive season is sure to be one like no other. Parenthood is challenging enough...
Volunteers Needed!
We are now launching our new Volunteer Training Course - this will start in March and is a blended course of some face to face learning and online modules to complete at home. Find out more about our Volunteers by visiting our Volunteering page. If you are interested...
Are You Feeling Isolated?
Nearly two thirds of families who come to Home-Start for support say that isolation is their main reason for needing our help. If you have moved away from friends and families, if you don't know your local community, or if you have a partner who works long hours,...
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