Exeter Community Initiatives Impact Report 2024/2025

📋About

Community Builders (neighbourhood empowerment — 577 new ideas sparked, 391 turned into action, 1,036 connections created, 3,490 hours delivered); Family Resource (tailored family support across Devon and Cornwall — parenting tools, counselling, Domestic Abuse pilot, Family Minds partnership, 'Hear my Voice' school programme); Magic Carpet (creative arts for adults with learning disabilities or mental health challenges — 345 sessions, 138 artworks in Creative Space Exhibition, 14 events/trips); Jelly children's charity shop (42 volunteers, pre-loved goods, sustainability, community events); Transitions (relaunch August 2024 — workshops on anxiety, budgeting, decluttering, 27 community meet-ups, 1:1 coaching, 3,218 hours of support); Devon Connect hosting; Volunteer Fair at Exeter Cathedral (800 visitors, 60 organisations) Custom geography from upload: Exeter and Devon, UK

📊Key Metrics

✅Key Outcomes

• Community Builders: 84 funding applications supported, 391 ideas turned into action — estimated £645,800 public sector savings if just 5% of residents avoided worsening mental health or loneliness; Magic Carpet: 95% of participants felt safe and supported; preventing 1 in 10 from deteriorating into severe mental ill-health could save NHS £22,000 annually
• Merger with Magic Carpet creative arts charity completed in 2024/25; National Lottery funding secured for 3-year Transitions relaunch; Wellbeing Exeter renewed for 3 years enabling 11,000 neighbourhood connections; 47 projects launched since 1993
• Over 16 years Jelly has reused 208 tonnes of pre-loved items avoiding 416 tonnes of CO2 equivalent to taking 90 cars off the road for a year; 8,206 volunteers contributed 61,244 hours since ECI's founding in 1993; Living Wage, Disability Confident and Mindful Employer

📍Geography

South West