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Family Support Work (FSW)
FSW helps families in Sussex to overcome difficulties and prevent crisis. They support families struggling with issues such as poverty, ill health, learning difficulties, bereavement, family break-up and domestic abuse.
The work of FSW provides emotional and practical support to families in need. This includes listening, advice, advocacy, food parcels, support groups and play activities. They stay with a family until they get back on their feet.
St Anne’s church supports FSW through monthly church giving, regular donations of foodstuffs (including harvest), presents for families at Christmas and involvement with deanery fund raising events.
Our FSW deanery representative is Ashley Price.
Community use of the church
St Anne’s is always looking for opportunities to open the church to the wider community for a variety of uses. Recent musical events have included concerts by the East Sussex Bach Choir, the Esterhazy Chamber Choir, a Freedom from Torture concert, an Amnesty International concert, the Lewes Festival of Song and a concert by New Sussex Singers. Local groups such as Sussex Carols, Pro Musica, the Paddock Singers and the Zu Choir have used St Anne’s for rehearsals. Both Lewes Old Grammar school and Wallands School have held events at the church as have the Lewes Passion Play Group, the Sussex Historic Churches Trust, Lewes Film Club, the Crown Court/High Sherriff’s Office and Lewes Town Council.
