Seashell Trust

Total Futures are proud to support the great work of the Seashell Trust 

Seashell is dedicated to providing a creative, happy, and safe environment for children and young people with complex learning difficulties and additional communication needs.

Here at Seashell, we offer a holistic approach with Seashell Royal School Manchester, Royal College Manchester, and our 17 home-from-home care houses, to provide a safe, supported environment. Our special needs residential schoolsprovide the best facilities and equipment, including sports, health, and well–being. Additionally, our facilities for special needs students provide many different ways for our students to explore their creativity, artistic pursuits and physicality.

Seashell focuses on the extended family that cares for each one of our students and residents. We understand the difference that can be made to all those connected lives, that is why we strive to include the whole family and the wider community in the life experience of our children and young people.

Principal of Royal College Manchester, Clare Sefton and Financial Controller, Claire Boyle, have challenged themselves to raise funds for an immersive space in the new College building.  They are traveling to India to take on the Dalai Lama Himalayan Trek tackling 50 kilometres at 3000m of altitude!

Clare said: "The students at Seashell face adverse challenges on a daily basis and still achieve some amazing things. I want to push myself out of my comfort zone to show what we can achieve when we put our mind to it."

An immersive space is an incredible resource, ideal for creating scenario-driven environments where users are fully immersed within the space. So many students will benefit from this state of the art facility. It will allow learners to experience new situations in a controlled environment, reducing anxieties and promoting independence. Students on our sensory course will be immersed into new, exciting environments where they can have full control, practicing cause and effect. It will be life changing for many students. 

Seashell supports children and young adults with complex learning difficulties, disabilities, and additional communication needs from across the UK. Seashell provides specialist education, care, and support for people aged from 4 to 25 years at their outstanding school and college, residential homes, and through supported living services and community facilities.