Headway News
News from Headway House and Headway North Staffordshire.Two New Well-being Centres Open in Stoke-on-Trent
From 24 June 2024, we will be opening two new Wellbeing Centres in partnership with Changes, North Staffordshire Mind, and the Coalfield Regeneration Trust. These Wellbeing Centres will replace the recently closed Clubhouse Networks at the American and Observatory....
Free Training From Headway UK on Aquired Brain Injury
Headway UK is offering free training designed specifically for adults with an acquired brain injury that explores the effects of an ABI and the road to recovery. The training is free and is held online, lasting 40 minutes. There are multiple dates for the training...
Free Training From Headway UK ‘Life After Brain Injury’
Headway UK is offering free training designed specifically for adults who care for someone with a brain injury. Ttraining is free and is held online. This session has been created specifically for family members of people with a brain injury to provide some...
Free Training From Headway UK on Aquired Brain Injury
Headway UK is offering free training designed specifically for adults with an acquired brain injury that explores the effects of an ABI and the road to recovery. The training is free and is held online, lasting 40 minutes. There are multiple dates for the training:...
Free Training From Headway UK on Aquired Brain Injury
Headway UK is offering free training designed specifically for adults with an acquired brain injury that explores the effects of an ABI and the road to recovery. The training is free and is held online, lasting 40 minutes. There are multiple dates for the training:...
Headway UK Christmas Card Competition
Headway UK are delighted to announce our first Christmas Card Competition exclusively for members of Headway groups and branches across the network. This competition involves members designing a Christmas card, which will be sold in this year’s range for Headway –...
Free Training From Headway UK on Aquired Brain Injury
Headway UK is offering free training designed specifically for adults with an acquired brain injury that explores the effects of an ABI and the road to recovery. The training is free and is held online, lasting 40 minutes. There are multiple dates for the training:...
Outreach in Action
A few snaps of our Outreach team adventures. What is Outreach? Outreach is another amazing service that we offer. It's additional support for our members outside of Headway! It is a PA service to offer support and guidance with day to day tasks that we all take for...
Free Therapy For Couples Is Available
Our thanks to Professor Gerry Riley, who came to HNS yesterday to talk about the therapy available to couples when a brain injury can couples to have a disconnection with their past. This could be in terms of: How they think and feel about things – what they think...
Headway UK Needs You!
A really exciting opportunity has opened up to people with an ABI or family / carer member as a Service User Perspective Assessor. This is a paid role, that performs an important function. You will be part ot a two-person assessment team. You, as the person with an...
Amy Rimes Interview with The BBC
Amy Rimes, is a service user of Headway North Staffs, just recently she was interviewed by a BBC reporter, alongside Operations Manager Darren Atkinson. It was a fantastic interview and a great opportunity to bang the drum for our fantastic services. Her daughter...
Tracy Willett Fundraiser
Tracy Willett is kindly undertaking a personal challenge to raise funds for Headway North Staffs. Tracy story... Pushing myself again on my 'Back to fab- find your fab' journey and part of my next stage is working on moving my body more. Therefore, I've set myself a...
Free Training From Headway UK on Aquired Brain Injury
Headway UK is offering free training designed specifically for adults with an acquired brain injury that explores the effects of an ABI and the road to recovery. The training is free and is held online, lasting 40 minutes. There are multiple dates for the training:...
Get Involved In Research For Couples’ Therapy
The University of Birmingham is developing a new therapy that will help couples maintain a good relationship after a brain injury. They are looking for volunteers to receive the therapy and provide information on how well it works. Is this for you? The therapy is for...
Poems on Love and Valentine’s Day by Clients of Headway
Poem 1 Today I give you my heart Today I’ll give my love To you Today, is ever so special for us Our love, our passions, our all Be my Valentine, Hold me tight today Be my Valentine Be my light I love you so. Andrea England Poem 2 Roses are red Violets are blue...
A Valentine’s Day Poem
Another from Andrea. Be my valentine, My heart belongs to you Be my valentine Be mine,my sweet,be mine. Be my valentine all my love I will give it to you Hold my love This I promise I do love you so. My dreams are yours My hopes are yours Oh,wont you be...
A Seasonal Poem from our Poet in Residence
A poem by our resident poet Andrea England on the passing of time. This year Shrove Tuesday (pancake day) Is the day before Valentine's Day It would be nice to have Pancakes on Tuesday And Pancakes with strawberries and cream On Valentine's Day. Then A week after...
Survey on Traumatic Brain Injury
Anchor Point is a research working group with people from 7 uiversities across the country. Our own counsellor, Jill Keltor, is part of this team. They are currently recruiting people to participate in a survey from the East and West Midlands. If you are a family...