Funding boost for Exeter homeless charity

The first grant to be awarded by, a newly founded trust, the MAXIMUS Foundation UK has been made to St Petrock’s, Exeter’s charity for people who are homeless.

“The trust is set up to give one-off grants to small community based charities whose work means something to our employees or resonates with what we do as a business,” explains Jude Hartley, administrator of MAXIMUS Foundation UK, “and St Petrock’s was nominated by one of our Exeter employee, Trish Leworthy.”

“We were delighted to receive this award of £2,500”, says Mel Hartley, project manager of St Petrock’s, “especially as our proposal for this grant came from an Exeter resident– it’s wonderful to get that kind of recognition. Importantly too, this grant will help us fund our Advice, Housing and Support Service which has seen an increase in demand of 39% over the last 3 years.”

St Petrock’s aims to address the problem of homelessness and re-offending and has, in the last three years, provided emergency advice and support to 4,260 people and helped 2,432 into accommodation.