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Exeter Community Initiatives

Exeter Community Initiatives Impact Report 2024/2025: At the Heart of Positive Change in Exeter and Devon

Exeter Community Initiatives' Impact Report 2024/25 covers a year of growth following its merger with Magic Carpet, bringing five core projects together: Community Builders, Family Resource, Magic Carpet, Jelly and support for people with learning disabilities. Its headline achievements since 1993 include 47 projects launched, 1,109 groups and associations helped, 8,206 volunteers and 61,244 volunteer hours. Community Builders alone recorded 1,036 connections and networks, 287 events attended, 397 groups supported, 84 funding applications supported and 3,490 hours of community building, with an estimated preventative saving to the public sector of around £645,800 a year, while 96% of families supported by Family Resource reported being satisfied.

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Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI) is a charity that has worked for over 30 years to empower individuals, families and communities in Exeter and Devon to build brighter futures through community building, family support, creative arts and wellbeing projects.

Key Metrics

8,206 volunteers since 1993
61,244 volunteer hours
1,036 connections and networks made by Community Builders

Key Outcomes

  • Successful merger with Magic Carpet, growing ECI's portfolio
  • Estimated public-sector preventative saving of around £645,800 a year
  • 96% of families satisfied with Family Resource support

Geography

South West

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