3VA

Category: Seaford

  • Creative kit bags with Towner

    Creative kit bags with Towner

    In response to COVID-19, we have partnered with Towner, Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020, on an exciting new project supporting families struggling to access provision from schools. Over the course of eight weeks, we delivered four activity sheets and two materials kits to 200 households in Eastbourne and Seaford.

    Towner commissioned artist and graphic novelist Daniel Locke to design activities themed around the elements: air, earth, water and light. Dan’s activity sheets feature himself with his children Polly and Felix, leading activities for children to join in – taking on the character of an Art Alchemist.

    Click here to download your own copies of the Art Alchemist activity sheets.

    This offer is part of a wider project funded through Sussex Learning Network and managed by 3VA to respond to immediate needs in the community. As a collaboration we have worked with community partners Willingdon Trees, Shinewater Primary School, Make Lunch club and Waves in Seaford to provide counselling support through Holding Space, refurbished computers through Tubbs Computer Supplies, as well as these creative kit bags developed by Towner.

    Towner was also successful in applying for additional funding through Children’s Art Week for this project.

  • Supporting young learners and their families through a partnership of local organisations

    Supporting young learners and their families through a partnership of local organisations

    Young people and their families have been affected heavily during the coronavirus outbreak and in its aftermath – with many families juggling home school, working from home, stresses of everyday life amplified by the health, job and finances worries. Those living in areas of low income have been affected particularly hard.

    3VA is working with six local organisations and number of schools in Eastbourne, Lewes and Wealden to deliver emergency support in June and July. This programme is funded by the Office for Students through the Sussex Learning Network as part of the Uni Connect programme.

    Our partner, Tubbs Computer Supplies, provided 36 refurbished computers to families in Shinewater and Willingdon Trees in Eastbourne in a space of just over 4 weeks. Machines which otherwise would go to landfill have been refurbished and delivered to families who don’t have suitable IT to help their kids access online learning and resources.

    Towner and CraftyAnnies made nearly 300 activity learning packs for young people distributed across Eastbourne and Seaford and across Wealden District with the help of amazing local volunteers. Packs provided an attractive alternative – something to break the boredom and engage with quality educational content away from the formal school’s resources, helping young learners stay motivated.

    Holding Space in Eastbourne is offering free support to parents and children and young people who struggle with mental health and wellbeing as a result of all the challenges related to

    the coronavirus outbreak, helping everyone cope with the situation and supporting children’s learning and development. Four families are already receiving professional help.

    3VA is proud to have brokered this partnership of amazing local organisations and to have helped secure almost £25,000 of funding to deliver the work this summer.