by Ellee Seymour | Dec 12, 2010 | Blog, Headway
I had a phone call from Waitrose yesterday asking me who they should make the cheque payable to. I had no idea what the caller was talking about, until she informed me that we were one of their Ely store’s nominated Community Matters charities of the month. It...
by Ellee Seymour | Dec 10, 2010 | Blog, Headway
I had the pleasure of joining Rosie Wilson yesterday at The Dorchester where she won a national Headway Campaigner of the Year award for her determined fight to stamp out suicide internet sites. Her lovely daughter Ziggy had tried to commit suicide in June 2007 aged...
by Ellee Seymour | Nov 9, 2010 | Headway
I’m attending a conference in London today entitled “Communications for a Big Society” organised by the MediaTrust with speakers from the BBC, Guardian and Google. Do let me know if you have any questions on this topic and I will try and raise them....
by Ellee Seymour | Nov 4, 2010 | Headway
The mother of a beautiful young woman who tried to commit suicide has been nominated for a national Headway award for her dedicated campaign to warn others against the dangers of sickening internet sites that provide encouragement about how vulnerable people can kill...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 15, 2010 | Headway
I was stunned to learn of the death of actor Simon MacCorkindale of cancer, aged only 58. He was a great supporter of Headway and was truly fabulous when he visited us at our Cambridge centre two years ago. Simon also had a local connection as he was born in Ely and...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 11, 2010 | Headway
All charities are very grateful for any celebrity endorsement they can get, though we do not seek it from such tragic circumstances as this. Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell sustained a devastating brain injury this July while cycling in America, and I am...
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