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Covid-19 and Headway East London

(*Last updated 24th March) Earlier this month, government announced significant new social distancing measures aimed at reducing the transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) and to protect older people and vulnerable adults. As a result, Headway East London acted to ensure the…

Experimental Film Week

We’re very excited to host our very first Experimental Film Week on Instagram this week! Each week day we’ll feature one-minute films by Submit to Love artists in collaboration with filmmaker Posy Dixon who spent 8 weeks at the studio…

Liverpool Marathon – Courtney’s story

Courtney, with her mum and sisters How did you hear about Headway East London? My mum is a volunteer at HEL. She had a brain injury five years ago and Headway have been a huge support to her ever since.…

A Decade in Review at Headway!

Flashback to 2009. We had just moved from our previous Shoreditch address to Kingsland Road in Haggerston, which we still call home today. In some ways a lot has changed: the number of people we support has increased by a…

Community Support Stories – Rosy & Ruby

Back in 2013 life moved very quickly for Rosy: as a police officer doing shift work and a fitness enthusiast she was on her feet for most of the day and enjoyed working in the community. However, on 22nd December…

The poetry of collaboration

Working together is nothing new to us. In fact, it’s something we practice every day both in our Day Service and out in the community. Yet, there’s always something very special about bringing a new collaborator into the mix. The…

Make the Headway Pledge!

Let’s be honest: fundraising is tough. We should know; we’re an independent charity, and we’ve been doing it for over 20 years. We receive about 75% of our income from fees paid by local authorities for our specialist services –…

Headway hits the jackpot with National Lottery funding!

We are thrilled to announce that we have received four years of funding from The National Lottery Community Fund! This money will enable the charity to continue running our vital Casework Service, which provides essential advice, advocacy and support for…

Headway Member of the Month – Memories from Milan

John sustained his brain injury whilst working as a project manager for a retail site. After falling from a roof, he ended up in a coma for six weeks before waking up. When John first joined Headway East London, he…

Introducing Print Fest 2019!

A free evening celebrating the glorious diversity of printmaking, Print Fest will see solo artists and groups from Submit to Love Studios (a collective of self-taught artists based at brain injury charity Headway East London) exhibit and sell original pieces,…

Volunteers’ Week 2019 – Ziggy’s Story

Volunteer, Ziggy has been with us for nearly a year after being impacted by brain injury in March 2018, when her brother, who had been a fire fighter for many years was a victim of a stroke. After her brother…

Night Rider 2019

For the past six months, our night riders have been gearing up for the challenge set to race through some of London’s biggest sights. On the night, the cyclists will meet at the Lee Valley Vello Park and go on…