Built by people who know schools. Shaped by the professionals who work in them.

Empathia brings together 25 years of school sector experience and the knowledge of practising SENCOs to support children, families and staff with the resources they actually need.

OUR ROOTS

Empathia is a product of Elygra Ltd, a Chester-based company that has worked continuously with UK schools for 25 years.

Our background is in school communications and marketing — work that has taken us inside hundreds of schools and built the kind of relationships that only come with time.

We are the team behind the Great School Lunch, an annual event hosted at 10 Downing Street for Members of Parliament. We understand how schools work, what pressures school leaders are carrying, and how trust in the education sector is earned.

That experience is the foundation Empathia is built on.

WHY WE BUILT EMPATHIA

Spending time in schools means seeing the same challenges repeatedly.

Staff who want to support children with SEND but don't always have the training or resources to do so confidently. Parents trying to engage with processes that weren't designed with them in mind. Children who need help making sense of their own feelings and experiences — and aren't always given the right language or the right support to do that.

Empathia was developed to help with all three. It provides consistent, expert-informed content for children, for parents and carers, and for the professionals who support them — available in 72 languages, on demand, at the point it's needed.

Children's Stories

Parent Guides

Teacher Guides

BUILT WITH SCHOOLS, NOT JUST FOR THEM

The content in Empathia has been developed alongside practitioners, not in isolation from them.

Fifteen SENCOs are currently working with us in an active co-creation pilot, helping to ensure that everything we produce reflects the realities of school life.

Our children's content is informed by Carol Gray's Social Stories™ methodology. Our staff development content draws on the work of Bruce Perry, Leah Kuypers, and Paul Dix, and on the established evidence base for trauma-informed practice.

Every resource has been reviewed for plain language, emotional safety, and age-appropriateness

ABOUT OUR FILMS

We have a simple but ambitious mission:

To help everyone touched by special educational needs - children, families, teachers, and the people who support them - live a better life through communication that actually works.

That mission is global. The challenges schools face in explaining complex things clearly, in multiple languages, to multiple audiences, are not unique to the UK. They are felt in every country, in every community, wherever a child needs a little more understanding than the world sometimes offers.

What makes Empathia different is the craft behind the content. Our team cares deeply about making films that are genuinely good — warm, beautifully made, and thoughtfully written. They’re deliberately not just explainer videos or talking-head clips. We aim to create films that a child will watch and feel seen. That a tired parent will watch at midnight and feel less alone. That a lunchtime supervisor will watch and feel more equipped to do one of the most important jobs in a school.

That passion — for the subject, for the people, and for the art of making something that moves people — is what drives every frame we produce.

Empathia's Films Are:

  • Informed by Carol Gray's Social Stories™ methodology

  • Aligned with Ofsted's EIF

  • Available in multiple languges

  • Developed with SENCos and school practitioners

WHERE WE'RE GOING

Empathia's commercial launch is planned for September 2026

The launch is timed to align with the availability of £200 million in government SEND CPD funding. Schools will be able to use this funding to invest in exactly the kind of staff development content Empathia provides.

We are currently pursuing CPD accreditation from the CPD Certification Service and preparing partnership proposals with nasen, Teaching School Hubs, and the Education and Training Foundation. We are also in active conversations with local authorities and multi-academy trusts about embedding Empathia across their networks.

OUR COMMITMENT TO SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE

When the content is for children and families, there are no shortcuts on compliance.

We have completed a comprehensive compliance review covering UK GDPR, the ICO Age-Appropriate Design Code, the Online Safety Act 2023, KCSIE, the Equality Act, the SEND Code of Practice, the UK AI regulatory framework, the EU AI Act, COPPA, and international data protection frameworks.

A Data Protection Impact Assessment is in progress. Voluntary consultation with the ICO is planned. An independent Ethics Advisory Board is being established to provide ongoing oversight of Empathia's content and platform development.

Full compliance documentation is available on request.

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