Headway is a charity set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury. It does this through a network of local Groups and Branches throughout the UK such as Lincolnshire Headway. The local groups offer a wide range of services, including rehabilitation programmes, carer support, social re-integration, community outreach and respite care.
Headway UK provides support to the local Groups and Branches through guidance on policies, procedures, standards and training. Additionally:
- The Headway Helpline provides information, advises on sources of support, finds local rehabilitation services and offers a listening ear to those experiencing problems
- They promote understanding of brain injury and its effects
- They lobby for better support and resources to be made available by statutory health and social care providers
- They campaign for measures that will reduce the number of brain injuries
For a week long period staff members collected goods for Headway’s recently opened charity shops and we were delighted to be able to donate a van full of items!
Our collection went back to the Head Office in Nottingham before being distributed to one or more of their 14 shops in the East and West Midlands. A shop in Newark, the first in the local area, is to be opened within a few weeks.