Christmas came a bit earlier for us at Headway Northampton this year. That’s when we found out that we had come top in the 2014 public vote for the Lloyds Bank Community Fund vote for Northampton North. While the award scheme ran across the whole of Britain and nearly 1.5 million votes where made overall,…
This Extraordinary General Meeting was called to discuss the future of Headway Northampton and to seek approval to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Explaining that the need to become a CIO is mainly for administrative reasons, it was stressed that there will no obvious changes to the services provided by Headway Northampton. All in…
Ticking time bomb: The false economy of cuts to brain injury support services. In Spring 2014 Headway – the brain injury association, conducted two surveys to examine the impact government reforms of the welfare benefits system and the cuts to local authority budgets are having on the lives of people affected by brain injury. Are…
You will know in the last newsletter we had to let you all know about the sad loss of one of our service users Mikey Edwards. The service users of Headway Northampton wanted to organise some sort of memoriam for Mikey. It was decided after a group discussion that they wanted to raise the money…