Brain injury hits the road
To mark Action for Brain Injury Week Headway Devon embarked on a tour of the county, with coffee mornings featuring an exhibition of art produced by people with brain injuries in our valued local centres. The tour took in each of the fife towns wehre Headway Devon runs a centre: Torquay, Tiverton, Exmouth, Honiton and [...]
Out and about in Action for Brain Injury Week
To celebrate Action for Brain Injury Week, which will be running from 13th-19th May, Headway Devon will be touring the county with an exhibition of client artwork and coffee morning. This “roadshow” will be launching in Torquay on Monday 13th May, before moving on to make stops in Tiverton, Exmouth, Honiton and finally Exeter on [...]
Bag a bargain at our book sale!
Headway Devon are holding a second-hand book sale to raise money for local people with brain injuries. The sale, which will take place on Wednesday 17th April from 2pm-7.30pm at Headway Devon’s office in Exeter, offers good quality books from a wide range of genres including: Popular fiction and classics Children’s books and games Non-fiction [...]
Celebrating student volunteering
To mark Student Volunteering Week, Headway Devon would like to say a huge thank you to our dedicated team of volunteers and raise awareness of the invaluable support that we receive from local school, college and university students. Headway Devon are very lucky to enjoy the support of volunteers studying a wide range of subjects [...]
Exeter Foundation computer boost for brain injured
Brain injury survivors in the city now have access to top-of-the-range IT facilities thanks to the generosity of the Exeter Foundation. The Foundation, which supports a range of charities in the Exeter area, made a donation towards Headway Devon’s day centre in Exeter, enabling the charity to invest in a brand new computer hub for [...]
Solicitors conference in Exeter will support Headway Devon
Outer Temple Chambers will be holding their annual clinical negligence conference in Exeter and donating all proceeds from the event to Headway Devon. The conference is scheduled to take place on Monday 18th June 2012 at the University of Exeter’s Peter Chalk Centre. According to the organisers, the conference will be of interest to both [...]
Action for Brain Injury Week – Hats the way to do it!
To celebrate Action for Brain Injury Week 2012, clients and staff at Headway Devon’s day centre in Exeter spent all day on Wednesday 16th May wearing wacky hats for Headway Devon! Hats for Headway is an event, masterminded by Headway UK, that takes place [...]
Express & Echo – special report for Action for Brain Injury Week
Exeter’s Express and Echo published a special report about Headway Devon on Thursday 10th May 2012. Here is what reporter Fran McElhone had to say: Ahead of Action for Brain Injury Week, from May 14 to 20, reporter Fran McElhone paid a visit to brain injury charity Headway Devon’s day centre in the city to [...]
Meet the volunteers
Find out more about some of the people who volunteer their time to help us improve life after brain injury. Chloe G, 17, studies Health and Social Care at Exeter College Chloe started volunteering at Headway Devon’s centre in Exeter through a work placement for her college course. She has found that volunteering [...]
Students making a difference for brain injury survivors in Devon
To mark National Student Volunteering Week, we’d like to say a huge thank you to all of the local University and college students who generously give up their time to help Headway Devon to improve life after brain injury. We are very fortunate to have a strong body of enthusiastic and hard-working student volunteers, without [...]
