Grace Eyre and the South Downs National Park are working together on an exciting project aimed at increasing the awareness and confidence of people with learning disabilities to access walks on the South Downs National Park and are in need of suitable clothing. Please contact Katie Whyte for more information or make a donation: kwhyte@grace-eyre.org
Grace Eyre and the South Downs National Park are delighted to be working together on an exciting project aimed at increasing the awareness and confidence of people with learning disabilities to access walks on the South Downs National Park. We plan to focus on two walks: one which can be completed in a day and [...]
Grace Eyre is a charity that supports people with learning disabilities and works across Sussex. We have operated from a building in Hove since the 1950s. Within our building we also have a little theatre – now known as the Purple Playhouse. The theatre needed considerable refurbishment to enable performances to take place on a [...]
Please see attached a flyer for our exciting new Grace Eyre Sunday Market Project. The project is all about adults with learning disabilities being part of their community and will involve opening and running a Sunday Market on Montefiore Road. This is in partnership with BHASVIC Sunday Car Boot events on Old Shoreham Road. Our [...]
The Grace Eyre Housing team, members of the community interest company registered last year, have been talking to people with learning disabilities who’d like to live independently. Our first tenants in Hove are well settled and receiving full tenancy support from the team and with Grace Eyre’s West Sussex service now running, new people with [...]
The Grace Eyre Harvest Project is making brilliant progress. The Allotment Group have been working together to create a harvest calendar which shows when the produce was planted and when it’s due to be harvested. They have taken some fantastic photos of the giant rhubarb and have been working long hours to protect their lettuce [...]
The Grace Eyre Sunday Market project is all about adults with learning disabilities being part of their community and will involve opening and running a Sunday Market on Montefiore Road. This will be in partnership with BHASVIC Sunday Car Boot events on Old Shoreham Road. Grace Eyre is offering a FREE training course, which [...]
Olympic Torch Relay On Monday 16th of July a group of Special Olympians (members of a local sports club aiming to encourage people with learning disabilities to become more physically active) celebrated the arrival of the Olympic Torch Relay to Brighton and Hove at the cricket ground. Despite the damp weather everyone really enjoyed the [...]
Grace Eyre employed a Service User Involvement Worker, Kathy Agashi, in September 2011. This is an exciting new role for both Kathy and Grace Eyre, and focuses on supporting people to get more involved in decision making at Grace Eyre. Kathy supports the forums where people come to talk about plans and decide what they [...]
Since 18th June 2012, Grace Eyre has been managing the supported living services in West Sussex which were previously managed by the County Council. Grace Eyre is very excited to be able to support this excellent service to expand and move forward. We look forward to working closely with the 70+ people who receive support [...]