It’s incredibly difficult to succeed in a Lottery grant bid – but we managed it at Headway Cambridgeshire, thanks to our brilliant Chief Executive Andrew Gardner.
It h
as just been announced that we have secured £372,579 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme for five years, enabling Headway Cambridgeshire to expand its project to support brain injury survivors and their families in Cambridgeshire.
The Making Headway in the Community project will employ a
second community brain injury advisor so more people can get support when they are discharged from hospital and who will work with more GPs to ensure earlier referrals. The types of support on offer include drop-in centres, carers support groups, family education workshops and support groups for the children of people with an acquired brain injury. There will also be brain injury aware counselling services, online chatrooms and a telephone support helpline.
As brain injury survivors can have a range of problems such as short-term memory problems, lack of confidence and self-esteem, the support activities help them identify their skills and maximise their potential for independent living, preparing them to return to work or get training and education.
As I always say, an acquired brain injury could happen to any of us any day.
Well done Andrew, and a BIG thank you to everyone at the Big Lottery Fund. I promise you your money will be well used.
*As chair of trustees for Headway Cambridgeshire, I am proud to lead a very talented and committed professional board. It is a new board – with two new trustees recruited in the last month. I have planned a cheese and wine party at my house so we can get to know each other better. I thought it would be great for us to socialise without the stress of rushing to a meeting and then rushing off.
I have a surprise planned for them too. My friend’s son is a very talented jazz musician and I have arranged for him to entertain us on his trumpet during the evening. He has been training with The Guildhall School of Music and Drama for several years and is going to study for a music degree with them. I know he will thrill us all.
Well done, Ellee!
Headway and jazz – a heady combination.
Wow! that sounds great 🙂
Headway helped me a lot with one of my cases… they are excellent.
Excellent news, well done. Headway is such an important organisation.
Good to know some of the money goes to REALLY good causes like Headway.
Well done to all at Headway. Hope everyone enjoys the jazz!
It’s great to have this kind of article which says something positive about playing lottery.
Same is also in the case of Online Lottery which not only bring charm or excitement it bring a huge amount of revenue in terms of profit. But now days the problem of scam or other online threat should be keep in mind while playing the game.