A MUM has spoken of her devastation at the news a centre which has helped her disabled daughter to walk is to close.

Roxi Aldrich, who lives in New Town, Colchester, has been getting help at the Dame Vera Lynn Trust School for Parents, near Ipswich, since September 2013.

The charity which runs the centre has announced it is to close, giving parents just two weeks notice.

It provides specialist services for families of young children with cerebral palsy and other motor learning difficulties.

Roxi’s mum, Adi Martinkovicova, 34, said: “We have been going there for a while now and it has just completely changed everything for me.

“All of a sudden I could see other disabled children around and see they were fine and could lead a normal life.”

This week’s session at the centre was the last for Roxi, three, and her mum.

Ms Martinkovicova said: “I just can’t believe it is happening.

We get a lot out of it, but it is the next set of parents who will need it.”

Ms Marinkovicova said parents had been told the charity, which runs another site in Brighton, had to close the centre because it had run out of money.

She said there was no suitable alternative for Roxi and other children affected by the closure, adding: “We are just left to be on our own. It is really sad.”

Roxi was born with cerebral palsy and faced the prospect of spending her life in a wheelchair or using on a walking frame to get around.

Her parents launched a £50,000 fundraising campaign to pay for her to undergo life-changing surgery in 2013 and raised the money in 14 months.

Roxi underwent a six-hour operation at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital last September and as a result, is now learning to walk.

The closure has also affected Clacton parents Emily and Toby Sinclair, whose daughter Alexia-Rose also used the centre.

Alexia-Rose has quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy and the Sinclairs hope she will be able to benefit from a similar operation to Roxi’s.

A charity spokesman said: “The decision reached by the board of trustees is based purely on financial grounds.

“We are a small, local charity based in West Sussex, not a national charity with large reserves, and despite our best efforts, we have been unable to meet the costs associated with the Suffolk service.”