Do you love to paint, draw, craft, cook, make jewellery, pottery or enjoy woodwork and making things. Are you a musician, singer, gardener the list is endless. Could you share your hobby with a small group of clients just for a few hours a week as a volunteer? Or are you looking for paid employment,…
Statement from Margot Basketfield, Manager of Headway Northampton: Margot says: “We’re delighted that The National Lottery Community Fund has recognised our work in this way. Without National Lottery players we would not have been able to employ these tutors and provide these groups for our clients. This is important because we know how invaluable the…
STAGED RE-OPENING OF THE UNIT TO CLIENTS. By now those clients that have a booked placement with Headway Northampton will have received correspondence to give them a start date to begin to re-attend. Unfortunately due to the social distancing rules and other government guidelines we have to stage the return of our clients. We are working…
Headway Northampton has recently been awarded a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, to further develop our workshop provision for our clients both in-house and online. We are a specialist day centre for brain injured adults that have suffered either a traumatic or acquired brain injury, ages ranging from 18 to 70 years old.…
Dear All, We had already decided to shut down for the first week after Christmas/New Year break 4th – 8th January 2021 due to the rising statistics and increasing numbers of the Covid 19 virus, and the emergence of the spread of a new variant. We felt that it was important to increase our procedures…
Christmas 2020 was a very different one for clients this year. Because of the coronavirus situation we had a very limited number for Christmas Dinner that we had over two days so that we could provide for as many as possible. As you will be able to see from the photographs despite this a good…
Did you know that in the UK we spend over £200 million every year on Christmas cards and over one billion of these end up in landfill as they can’t be recycled? This year, why not help the environment and stay Covid-safe while at the same time supporting a great charity, by sending your festive…
Giving Tuesday came early to Headway Northampton yesterday with not one, but four amazing donations of a Christmas tree for our centre. A huge THANK YOU goes out to The Welford Christmas Tree Farm, Voice, Hair by Hannah and George Browns Ltd who have each donated a tree. The four Christmas trees will really bring some…
Taking place on 1st December 2020, Giving Tuesday is a day dedicated to charities, like Headway Northampton. It is a day of generosity and giving back, to balance the mass consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday and to support good causes. The Giving Tuesday global campaign has been running in the UK since 2014,…
FOLLOWING ON FROM THE PRIME MINISTER’S STATEMENT AND LOCKDOWN NUMBER 2 STARTING TODAY THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5TH 2020 Headway Northampton is remaining open to our clients. We are doing everything we can to keep clients, and staff safe. We do have to limit the people we can have in the building at any one time,…
Headway Northampton is delighted to be the chosen Charity of the Year by Voice. Voice is a company commissioned by the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner to provide support for victims and witnesses of crime, anti-social behaviour, serious fire incidents and serious or life-changing road traffic collisions. Voice Road Harm provides emotional support and specialist…
Headway Northampton wanted to keep you updated and try to clarify our position, after the statements made by the government on Monday 14th, 20th and 22nd September. This is obviously a very difficult period due to the management of the corona virus, the keeping to the social distancing rule and the importance of the regular…
CORONA VIRUS UPDATE Headway Northampton will be closing to service users on Tuesday 23rd March 2020. Headway Northampton has been working to reduce the risks associated with COVID-19 to its staff and services in line with Government guidance. If you care for, or support, one of our service users we ask you to remind them…
This year the Christmas Festivities started on the 11th December with over 70 clients sitting down together for a traditional three course Christmas Lunch. Our thanks once again must go to The Smoke Pit a local restaurant based in Northampton for their continued support and their chef Tom Basketfield who cooked up a storm…
Let’s Celebrate recently held a Charity Ball at the Park Inn in Northampton. The Charity Raffle proceeds was split between two charities Headway Northampton was chosen as one. Before the Christmas Lunch a cheque for £1200 was presented to Headway Northampton’s Chairman Mr Chris Greenwood, the Unit Manager Mrs Margot Basketfield by the organisers…
HOWEVER “Our frontline services do not receive any funding” All fundraising for Headway Northampton is greatly appreciated and very important as it allows the work of the charity to continue. All sponsorship and fundraising is used to benefit the service users and the specialist facilities, we provide at Headway Northampton. If you wish to…
XPO Logistics Northampton have once again supported us and held events to raise much needed funds for the unit. The cheque presentation was for £750 , which is fantastic and we all send our thanks to everyone that made this possible. It is so good to have the continued support of local businesses like XPO…
Every year we choose an annual unit project that can be worked on by the staff and clients, ready for our biggest open unit event for the public. We always try to find a project that although the topic maybe well known, a bestselling storybook classic dating back to 1900 that carries a deeper meaning…
Away from Headway “out on the streets” I can’t help but feel different. I carry no physical signs of my accident, but I can’t shake the muddled different person that now lives in my head. Silly as it is, I know, but this causes me a great problem. At Headway though, this problem no longer…
A few months ago we told you about Kay Duffy, the intrepid Iron Lady who was supporting us at Headway Northampton in memory of her Mum, Margaret. But it’s the incredible lengths of her dedication, in a very literal sense, that has humbled and honoured us as Kay launched herself into long distance endurance racing…
Once again for our ‘Summer Open Day’ one is not enough, we’re hosting two open days! Both are in the same week, on Tuesday 21st August and then again on Thursday 23rd August but both feature the same down-to-earth motif. We’re going back to nature with an Urban Wildlife theme! Entry is FREE and we…
We are very happy to report of a large donation recently. The Sugar and Spice Club of Duston Northampton has been going for 50 years and has raised thousands of pounds for local charities over the years. And we are happy to say that in April, we were very grateful for a £500 donation to…
We are grateful to anybody raising funds for Headway Northampton but some of our supporters warrant special mention. Definitely in that category is Kay Duffy. Unfortunately Kay lost her Mum, Margaret, to a brain haemorrhage and while Margaret never directly used our services, Kay is keenly aware of how we might have helped her and…
It was the 30th August this year that we hosted our annual Summer BBQ. And although it must be said that the weather could have been kinder for our event, in true Headway Northampton style we still had a fantastic day. Because our BBQ is such an important day for everybody here. It’s the opportunity…
For our annual Summer Open Day this year we’re going big, one day isn’t enough, we’re having two open days! Both are in the same week, one is Tuesday 11th July and then again on Thursday 13th July but both feature the same far out theme, we’re going into Space! It’s with a purpose though…
Sport forms an integral part of our community and plays an important role in keeping us fit and healthy. But even when safety regulations are followed accidents can happen and a particular danger are head injuries and concussions which are not always obvious. At Headway Northampton we want people to be informed of these risks,…
After the outstanding success of the past three years of the event, in which intrepid and determined runners have raised a tremendous amount of sponsorship for Headway Northampton, we’d love for more willing volunteers to run for our noble cause. What we need is people to run our on behalf and raise £100 or more in…
Those of you that attend Headway Northampton will be aware that we have been trying to raise money for a hoist that can be used in the Kennedy Suite bath, showers and Jacuzzi. We are pleased to announce that with the help of organisations such as the Boothville over 60’s Club, Nether Heyford Baptist Church,…
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…
The Well-Being Event held in November was a great success and we had 2 VIP’s in attendence, The Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Northampton. Spending the evening with us and taking time to look around the unit, which looked fantastic decorated for our Christmas events, they visited the many stalls that had booked for the…
We wanted everyone to know about the marvellous fundraising work of 4 people who ran specifically for Headway Northampton in the inaugeral Northampton Half Marathon. We are extremely grateful for their time and effort and also wish to thank everybody who sponsored them.
Summer/Autumn 2013 Newsletter Catch up on all the recent events at Headway Northampton, and the wonderful support we receive from the community, with our latest Summer/Autumn Newsletter.
