Torbay Communities is an umbrella organisation that works alongside dozens of other voluntary community and social enterprise organisations to provide support for thousands of mainly vulnerable and lonely people of all ages across the Bay.

We have a team of Community Builders who work in every area of the Bay. They help people to live their best lives, often reintroducing them to their own communities and watching as they blossom, forging new
friendships, rekindling hobbies and interests, and giving them the confidence to get out and about again.

Then there is the Torbay Community Helpline, set up one week before COVID brought us our first lockdown. We provided a shopping and prescription collection service, facilitated telephone befrienders
and recruited an army of volunteers to help their neighbours, including staffing and helping set up the vaccination centres.

We have since expanded our services to include mental health, domestic abuse and sexual violence, homelessness, food support and poverty. We boast ‘One call, that’s all’, and we are busier than ever.

We provide funding advice for other organisations as well as being responsible for Imagine This, the Torbay Citizens’ Assembly, LocalMotion Torbay, Active Lives Torbay, Torbay Together, the Torbay Timebank,
People’s Parkfield, asylum seekers & refugees support, and the Torbay Community Champion Awards.

We are everywhere, and despite what people think, we are not the Torbay Council, nor are we the NHS or any other statutory authority. We are Torbay Communities, and we need to raise funds to keep going!