Lights, Camera, Legal Advice!
We’re celebrating this week as Osbornes Law have agreed to support Headway East London’s Casework Service for a third year as one of our corporate partners! In addition to sponsoring our main website, this partnership allows the Casework team to strengthen their work with survivors and families from the earliest point of hospital admission. It […]
Osbornes Law supports our Early Intervention Project
Headway East London is delighted to announce that law firm Osbornes Law will be supporting our Early Intervention Project in the Royal London Hospital throughout 2018. Kicking off the partnership this week, this partnership allows the Casework team to strengthen its service at the Royal London Hospital. Currently the team have an on-site presence once a week; running a […]
Submit to Love on Etsy!
Christmas cards We’re thrilled to finally make our very own Etsy page live – selling a range of products designed by members of Headway East London and our art studio Submit To Love Studios. All of the products you see feature artwork that has been created on site over the last few weeks, months and […]
Occupational Therapy Week 2017 #ValueOfOT #OTWeek2017
Hi Laura, so for people who don’t know, what exactly is an OT? It’s really hard to try and sum it up actually…I work with all sorts of people whoexperience different disabilities and illnesses, particularly empowering them tobecome more independent and live a fulfilling life doing things that are meaningfulto them. We look at self-care, […]
Member Mike reviews ‘Wings’
“Where is my arm? What is my arm?” In these first two lines Juliet Stevenson brilliantly captures the immediate fear and confusion of having a stroke. Suspended by wires over a plain white stage, Stevenson, playing Mrs Stilson, a middle aged retired wing-walker, is asked a series of simple, seemingly patronising questions by medical staff, designed to reboot […]
Headway Meets: Artist in Residence Rachel
This Summer, we welcomed Rachel Goldie, the second of our Artists In Residence to the art studio. These placements allow our members to collaborate with other artists and explore new mediums, materials and forms – this time we looked at textiles. We caught up with Rachel to ask her about the experience…. How did you […]
It’s Remember a Charity Week (11-17 Sept)
This week (11-17 September) it’s Remember A Charity Week, a campaign to encourage people to consider leaving a donation in their will to a charity (or charities) close to their heart. This year the campaign calls on the public to ‘have your say on the world you want to pass on’, emphasising the real difference […]
Headway EATS: A Turkish Feast!
Our guests were greeted at the door and directed into the Headway Garden, overlooking Regent’s Canal. There they were served a ‘Watermelon Shrub’ – a refreshing mix of watermelon and fresh mint poured over crushed ice. As the guests chatted and relaxed outside, it was a flurry of activity in the Headway kitchen. Homemade flatbreads, made outside in […]
Art Workshop: Cyanotypes!
Today’s workshop was a new one for the Arch: Cyanotypes! A cyanotype is a bright cyan-blue print, made by exposing objects or drawings onto light sensitive photographic paper. As you can see from the photos, any part of the image that has been exposed to light ends up a very deep blue, while anything covered becomes bright white. Our new […]
Ride London – Josh’s story
Hi Josh, are you looking forward to the RideLondon event on Sunday? Josh: Yes, I’m definitely looking forward to it! This will be my fourth or fifth time cycling for Headway, so I’m definitely looking forward to doing it again. That’s amazing! And how’s training going? J: It’s been going well. I’ve mostly been going […]