Who Are You Now: Trudy’s story
“When you have a stroke, you don’t lose your ability to have a view. I want people to know that they can make decisions about their treatment themselves.” Trudy rose to the top of the nursing profession by her mid-twenties – the first phase of a brilliant career. Always seeking new challenges, she excelled at […]
Who Are You Now: Matthew Atkinson’s story
A road traffic accident threw Matthew’s academic career off-track when he realised he could no longer understand his work. He recounts how he found his way again with the help of technology, colleagues and family. Read his story here. Listen to his podcast here When we asked Matthew to tell his story for Who Are […]
New Peer Support Worker
Using their own personal experience of brain injury, this Peer Support Worker will provide assistance, signposting and information to both survivors and families. The part-time post holder will split work between our centre here in Hackney, and in our community support groups across East London. They will join an existing Peer Support Worker appointed last year, […]
Volunteers’ week – a thank you!
From Wednesday 1st until Sunday 12th June we are celebrating Volunteers’ Week. Over 21 million people volunteer in the UK at least once a year – they are huge numbers. We are proud to have over 40 people who volunteer on a regular basis, many of them giving up one day a week to help […]
Who Are You Now: Brian’s story
Brian was just sixteen when he sustained a brain injury in a motorbike accident. Changed by his injury in profound and subtle ways, he found himself caught between a childhood he could scarcely remember and an uncertain future ahead. This is the story of how he made a new life for himself – as a husband, […]
Staff portraits project
A couple of months ago we gave our members a task: we wanted their help to show people visiting the website what we get up to at our centre on a daily basis. Quite a hard task, as we do A LOT, but we settled on art, and asked whether members could each draw/paint/sketch our staff […]
Headway EATS (a LOT of great food!)
If you’ve been a supporter of Headway East London for a while, you’ll know that we like food. A lot. Our members are integral to this – cooking lunch for everyone at the centre each day and bringing in new ideas and recipes to share. Now we have actually been running Supper Clubs for a couple of […]
Celebrating the return of Who Are You Now?
We continue to celebrate Action for Brain Injury Week with the re-launch of Who Are You Now? – a project exploring the real-life stories of brain injury survivors and the impact this injury has on both them and their families. This project first began in 2015, and resulted in ten powerful and inspiring stories of resilience and hope. It was accompanied […]
Welcome to our new website
Headway East London is kicking off Action for Brain Injury Week (9-15 May) with the unveiling of their brand new website. Sponsored by Osbornes Solicitors, the redesigned site will feature more input from survivors and the local community, alongside better access to services, support, information and project news. Succinct navigation options will make the website more accessible, whilst […]
Our Saturday Social
This is primarily an opportunity for those not attending our day service to socialise and share experiences. The food is cooked by the group, everyone chips in (we’ve even welcomed Russell Brand as a volunteer in the past!) and sit together in our main centre: to eat, play pool and catch up. Our Peer Support Worker […]