WELCOME TO HEADWAY DERBY – improving lives after brain injury for 27 years!

Welcome to Headway Derby; an award winning local charity working with people affected by brain injury to help them improve their quality of life and future prospects; through a range of complementary projects and services.

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During these unprecedented times, our face to face services at the brain injury hub, allotment and out in the community are being delivered virtually, through online platforms and through resource packs, videos, and telephone and video calls.

If you’d like to know more then get it touch 01332 365270

These services are delivered through

Face to Face group and 1:1 sessions

Social Media Events

ZOOM and TEAMS meetings

Newsletters and Activities

Art and Culture Resources

WhatsApp Groups

Telephone Calls

Text Messages

Emails

Spotify Playlists

Snapchat

Cards and Postcards

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We continue to consider all of our clients access preferences in this response, and are working with the Derby City Covid 19 Response Team to ensure that all our clients and their loved ones have the support they need. As soon as we are get the go ahead to resume face to face services we’ll let you know.

Brain Injury Hub

Everything that we do flows out from the Brain Injury Hub on Bateman Street, just a stones throw from the base of the clinical specialist NHS Head Injury Team and Kings Lodge rehabilitation unit . Our non-clinical developmental, therapeutic and rehabilitative work is very different but highly aligned with their work and forms a key aspect of your recovery pathway.

You are welcome to come and visit us by appointment, see what we do and meet the team; just call 01332 365270 to arrange. We have PPE, Infection Control measures and Track and Trace in place and encourage everyone to wear face coverings when visiting us.

About

In the United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is the leading cause of death and disability. Headway Derby is an award winning registered charity (number 1107803) and company limited by guarantee (number 04658919) established by a group of volunteers in 1994, in response to the need to provide support for loved ones of people who’d survived a brain injury.

27 years on, own mission remains the same, to IMPROVE LIFE AFTER BRAIN INJURY!

The charity receives no statutory funding and is delighted by the support it gets from companies, donors, collection boxes and fundraising events. Combined with income from Member Days and grants from charitable trusts like Awards for All, Garfield Weston Foundation, Foundation Derbyshire and Henry Smith Charity, we were able to increase our service delivery by 60% in the last year whilst reducing our overheads by 14%.

In 2019 we were incredibly privileged to win Derby Telegraph Business Awards – Not for Profit Award, sponsored by Sellick Partnership – recruitment specialists. In 2020 we were nominated for this award again, however, due to the global pandemic the awards were postponed. In 2021 we have been nominated once more and we couldn’t be more excited as these nominations and awards are for our members and their families; for their bravery, tenacity and determination.

The charity offers a portfolio of services intentionally designed to support the ‘whole-self’, and this includes services for family and loved ones too.

THANK YOU for helping us to achieve this.

If you’d like to make a donation we have a virgin giving page:

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/displayCharityCampaignPage.action?campaignId=11840&charityId=1017917

If you’d like to know more please email lyn.palmer@headwayderby.org

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    Contact

    You can contact us in many ways – but let’s keep it simple for now

    Call: 01332 365270 (leave a message and we’ll call you back as soon as we can)

    Email: mail@headwayderby.org

    If you want to talk to someone about how your feeling urgently, we have a free helpline 0808 800 2244