DEDICATED teenagers will use their summer break to spruce up a ground-breaking cafe.

Jessica Rosam, Jack Grocott and their school friends are to create a sensory garden outside Dottie’s Cafe in East Brighton Park as part of their National Citizen Service summer programme.

The group of friends will be working to improve the outdoor space with disability access to create an environment for local use and hire.

The cafe became the first in the country to be staffed almost exclusively with deaf employees when it opened in September having moved from the Brighthelm Centre.

The not-for-profit venue is also a hub for home-schooled children, a job club for deaf children and a welcoming place for refugees to learn English.

It recently announced a new link-up with Eastbourne deli company Relish to deliver a new menu of full English breakfasts, sandwiches and jacket potatoes.

The volunteers are looking to raise £350 to help with their endeavours and have already successfully raised almost 90 per cent of that total with any additional funds put towards the upkeep of the café.