Active Lives - Day Activities

Our experienced Active Lives team offers a weekly timetable that encourages ambition and progression in a safe and supported environment.

Activities are designed to achieve positive outcomes for people’s personal and professional development, as well as to provide the opportunity to make and spend time with good friends in a welcoming atmosphere.

Active Lives offers a wide range of varied activities for people with a learning disability and autistic people – whether you are looking for an exciting project or to learn a new skill; and whether you would prefer something loud and active, or a quiet, calm activity, or even a mix of both.

View the Active Lives Timetable

We offer innovative day activities

Our day services programme for autistic people and people with learning disabilities is delivered by kind, trained support workers and subject experts.

We offer:

support and training for greater independence, including travel training, employment and volunteering opportunities
routes to gain skills and qualifications
opportunities to express creativity through a variety of different media including fine art, mosaic, sculpture and photography and performance arts. We stage several performances every year, which family and friends are welcome to attend
ways to promote and encourage healthy living, including through a wide range of sporting activities and by teaching cooking skills.

We regularly review our programme to make sure we are offering the best range of activities. We are always listening to the people who attend activities so that we can offer a timetable that is fresh and interesting.

We deliver activities in our community

Active Lives offers activities for autistic people and people with a learning disability in an exciting range of locations throughout Brighton & Hove and West Sussex.

Our main base in Telecom House is next to Preston Park in Brighton. We have our own café for fun and sociable break times and a quiet sensory room for use when needed.

Other Active Lives locations include our allotment in Hove, a recording studio, sports and leisure centres, plus community centres and parks.

We also make use of a wide range of other locations for walks and more occasional activities.

We work with partners

As well as our regular, in-house sessions, we work with a range of brilliant partners for different sessions and run various, exciting time-limited projects.

Recent examples include:

Screen-printing on t-shirts with eott – see our video below
Dance workshops with Echo Performing Arts towards a finished performance
Street art project with Brighton Street artist Sprite working towards a new public mural (completion in autumn 2025)
Drama and dance performances several times per year – previous productions include The Wizard of Oz and Macbeth the Musical, as well as the opportunity to take part in our annual Christmas Concert
Creating art work for exhibitions, including the Artists Open House – see Pioneer Arts for more information

A man takes part in an art workshop as part of Grace Eyre Active Lives

Screen-printing project with eott and Another Fine Mesh

We teamed up with eott, a mental health project, and printing company Another Fine Mesh to screen-print t-shirts that were available to buy. Watch the video to see what happens when art and mindfulness come together.

Find out more about all of Active Lives' projects

Allotment

Artists Open House

Employability and Skills

Pioneer Arts

Sport

Travel Buddy

Get involved in Active Lives

You may be able to book Active Lives sessions through your social worker if you have one. You can also self-refer.

If you would like to get involved in Active Lives, please contact our Referrals team using the details below or, to find out more, click to read more about Accessing Grace Eyre Services.