Join Headway and Abba Queens next month

Join Headway and Abba Queens next month

If, like me, you are an Abba fan, you won’t want to miss the chance to boogie along to Dancing Queen and Waterloo at our Headway Cambridgeshire ball next month. The Abba Queens tribute band will be topping the bill at Chilford Hall, near Cambridge on Saturday 27,...

Trustees – the unsung heroes of charities

Because this is a subject close to my heart as chair of trustees for Headway Cambridgeshire, I am republishing this article in full. We are currently recruiting new trustees and are extremely fortunate to have had applicants from very skilled, professionals who are...
Is Helen the UK’s top fundraiser?

Is Helen the UK’s top fundraiser?

At a time when fundraising is close to crisis levels for some charities due to the credit crunch, Helen Bearfield- Smith has raised a staggering £1 million in two years in East Anglia for Teenage Cancer Trust. It means that a new specialist unit at...
Describing life after a head injury

Describing life after a head injury

This is one tragic example of how an acquired head injury can dramatically change your life for ever.  Felicity Aston, the polar adventurer and Antarctica scientist, has described the terrible events which followed after her younger brother Spencer, now 21, was...
Headway Cambs seeks new trustees

Headway Cambs seeks new trustees

We are very fortunate at Headway Cambridgeshire in having a young board of savvy trustees with interesting jobs. At the same time, being a trustee requires time and commitment and sometimes it has to give way for career moves. That’s the situation we find ourselves...
How charities can attract philanthropists.

How charities can attract philanthropists.

It was reassuring to hear at yesterday’s conference about raising funds from the rich that there are many millionaire philanthropists with spare money to give away. I was just one of 1,848 delegates from the third sector keen to discover the key to this. And after...