About Us:

Embrace - East Sussex provides a much loved and valued service for the community. Working with and supporting families with children with special educational needs and disabilities, we provide a range of services from our children's therapy centre. We have a trained lawyer, who gives legal advice and support and trains and oversees a team of hard-working voluntary advocates, who all work with parents and carers to ensure their children are receiving the correct level of help and support to access education and available therapies. Our advocates work tirelessly, helping parents to complete paperwork and guiding them through what can be a very tricky process.

Throughout the week, we have a fully qualified teacher, who plans and runs a variety of learning sessions for the children. These groups include messy play, sensory sessions and singing and signing, amongst others. Alongside the drop-in groups, she also teaches Literacy classes to small groups of home-educated children with SEND voluntarily. In addition to all of this, we also host two parent support groups each week and the occasional workshop or talks with visiting specialists.

At the end of the week, children come along to our Saturday clubs, providing some respite for families and helping the children learn social skills and other important life skills.

We need your help so we can continue to offer these services to the local community! All of the proceeds from the lottery will go directly towards helping the children, by providing the staff and the resources needed to ensure continued success. Embrace is unique to Eastbourne and relies on the generosity of people like you to be able to fully support our Embrace families.

Please join the Eastbourne Local Lottery today and help us continue our good work.

Thank you for your support and good luck!

Yours sincerely

Ms Leanna Forse

Fundraiser and Project Officer