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History

1984
Exeter Drugs Project set up in Exeter as a volunteer-run helpline by concerned parents

1986
First funding from the Department of Health

1987
Registered as a charity

1987
Piloted a needle exchange

1990s
Produced a ‘Safer Injecting' handbook called ‘What Works'

1990s
Began delivering services in Devon prisons

1995-99
Short-term funding secured to deliver services working with Young People in Exeter, East and West Devon

1998
Funding from the Community Fund for volunteers and complementary therapies

1999
Commissioned to deliver CARAT services in Devon prisons

Teinbridge Drugs Project set up to work with under 25s

2001
Piloted PASRO programme in Dartmoor prison

2002
Secured contract to deliver services to Young People in Exeter, East, Mid-Devon and Teignbridge

2002
Began delivering services to adults in Torbay

2007
Began delivering services to adults in Dorset

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  • Our Mission‘To reduce the harm caused by substance misuse and social exclusion through work with individuals, families and communities’.
  • Our Vision‘Fulfilling lives for people affected by substance misuse and social exclusion’.