Through our press and media work, we are amplifying the voices of lived experience to raise awareness of life with brain injury.
Amplifying our members’ voices is particularly important to us as public awareness of brain injury remains low, despite an estimated 1.3 million people living with the effects of brain injury in the UK. (Centre for Mental Health)
We work closely with our community to develop content, campaigns and press opportunities which focus on the issues most pressing to them.
We are keen to develop our social justice voice and engage with policymakers to directly support more people affected by brain injury.
Read out recent press and media coverage below.
Tony Allen wants you to know “you are magical” – It’s Nice That, 2024
Brad Reay’s map-like paintings are a kind of “organised chaos” – It’s Nice That, 2024
Celebrated Artist Jason Ferry’s Art Exhibition Lights Up Old Street Digital Canvas in London – Signage Info, 2024
Study aims to break link between brain injury and depression – BBC News, 2024
Old Street Digital Canvas will display the art of a leading brain injury artist. – AV News, 2024
Critically acclaimed artworks by brain injury survivors go on show at Shoreditch Library – Hackney Citizen, 2024
Submit to Love: meet the artists living with brain injury – NE Londoner, 2024
Headway: an art exhibition with a difference – Channel 4 News, 2023
Step into a world of awe-inspiring creativity at the Barbican’s Curve gallery this summer! – Able Magazine, 2023
differently various, The Curve, Barbican review – a step in a shared direction – the arts desk, 2023
differently various review – artists with brain injuries balance anger with joy – Guardian, 2023
‘‘Queen of wonky art’ Sam Jevon leads brain injury exhibition – The Times, 2023
Hidden Disabilities: The True Cost? – ITV, 2022
How east London studio Submit to Love is helping brain injury survivors to become artists – The Standard, 2020
Haggerston brain injury charity challenges community in fundraising campaign – Hackney Gazette, 2020
Haggerston charity for brain injury survivors sends out care packages to members self-isolating – Hackney Gazette, 2020
Power of art: How brain injury charity Headway is keeping classes going by moving online – ITV News, 2020
Headway East London hits the jackpot with £380,000 National Lottery funding – Hackney Citizen, 2019
A Journey Into the Radical Art of Brain Injury Survivors – VICE, 2019
Matter is the inclusive magazine that treats brain injury with grace and good humour – It’s Nice That, 2018
Londoners share realities of living with serious brain injury – The Standard, 2018
‘Before, I was quite a shy person’: life after brain damage – Guardian, 2018
East London charity helps brain injury survivors channel pain into painting – East London Lines, 2017
Life after brain injury: Survivors draw their worlds – BBC Three, 2017
Making Faces: Headway East London’s exhibition at the Southbank Centre – ITV, 2017
‘Art helped me tell my story’: brain injury survivors share self-portraits – Guardian, 2017
Facing it head on: what does a traumatic brain injury feel like? – The Telegraph, 2016
My Beautiful Broken Brain – Lotje Sodderland (Netflix Documentary)
My Brain After the Rapture – Clemency Burton-Hill (BBC Documentary)
The Magic of Chaos – Headway East London (Documentary)
Big Life Fix: Getting Graham back on the slopes – BBC Stories (Video)
Matter Magazine – Headway East London (Magazine)
Tell Me The Planets – Ben Platts-Mills (Book)
For more information, contact our Public Engagement and Comms Manager Claire Stone at claire.stone@headwayeastlondon.org or call on 020 7749 7790.
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