Headway Surrey

Headway Surrey

01483455225

Living well with brain injury

Providing cognitive rehabilitation therapy and social opportunities to adults over 18 in Surrey with a sudden acquired or traumatic brain injury. This can be from a stroke, heart attack, road traffic incident, sports accident, trip, fall, flying objects, assault, encephalitis, tumour, aneurysm, meningitis, hypoxia, tumour and many more things. Headway Surrey provides a range of services to suit individuals needs: day centre with workshops and activities, one to one sessions, community hubs, community visits, hospital visits, social group, befriending, family support, talks, education and a much needed Helpline!

Why the community needs us
When you suddenly become a survivor with a brain injury, your world and your family's world stops. You have to relearn normal everyday things again. You need to build new neural pathways to gain back the lost skills and executive functions you had before, so that you can lead a fulfilling life to the best of your ability. We enable people to regain independent skills and to live well with their brain injury. This helps the people closest to them to cope.

Our impact on the community
2019 we enabled 4 people to return to work. Others are continuing on their long journey of recovery. The best results in recovery are achieved in the first 2 years following the brain injury, and also the age of the person, younger people seem to recover quicker. We measure our social impact on all clients, so that we can monitor their personal journey of recovery to live well with their brain injury to their optimum potential.

During Covid-19

We have turned all of our services into online services and our helpline and email support has continued. We can assess and induct new clients. We offer a range of support sessions all online via zoom, eg. one-to-one or family sessions, brain education sessions, art sessions, coffee mornings, crossword morning, pictionary morning, quiz morning and family/carers support sessions. In addition, we send out workpacks to clients. We will be setting up a Covid-19 Survivors session or group in due course as the number of people recovering from Covid are showing neurological deficits and we can help with cognition and recovery in this area.

Volunteers needed

Lovely people to join a small team to stand at awareness tables and gift fairs.

What your gift could provide

£20

Supports the cost of the Helpline advising clients and family

£15

Prepare and send bespoke cognitive worksheets packages and activities

£5

Supports the cost of zoom sessions

Fundraise for us!

Charity Information

Telephone: 01483455225

Address: Headway House, 21 North Road,, Guildford Surrey GU2 9PU