I have found that it is really important for children in this area to make core friends outside the school environment, it stops the school friendship balance becoming all encompassing.
It really helps when they start secondary school here as everyone tends to spread out or meet up.
www.sammtotnes.org
I just thought of another great one, and he is the perfect age(5 to 18), SAMM is the saturday morning music school in Totnes, where children from all over come together to play music, you pay a really small fee a term and your child can join in so many different music classes, junk bands, drumming, all types of guitar, jazz, singing, folk, totally brilliant teachers, individual lessons available, suits beginners to expert.
All the children love it as they are around other children finding music cool, they do an afternoon concert once a term, they all become accomplished at public performance,mine though never going to be top musicians have really benifited and gained a lot of confidence and it's very laid back. Lots of children that have gone through have gone onto spectacular music careers and scholarships (the teachers arrange it very cleverly so all levels play together, so they find themselves getting good by accident)
It really gives them a huge grounding in music, he can try out the different classes and find what suits him.
Once he has made friends and sorted out his change over between classes, you can spend an enjoyable morning in the many coffee shops, saturday market of Totnes. It's all parent run so when you hang out you will meet lots of people.