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"Eight years last October I was hit by a car in Peterborough whilst walking to work. I sustained multiple injuries, the most detrimental injury of all was to my brain, which has left me with a life-changing condition resulting in severe memory loss."
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Updated ABI hospital admission statistics

Data from 2019-20 highlights that there is still one admission to hospital for brain injury every 90 seconds, one head injury every three minutes and one stroke every four minutes in the UK.

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Headway travelling Gallery
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Headway Leicester launches Travelling Gallery of images created for their 2024 Artwork Calendar.

Headway Leicester launches Travelling Gallery of images created for their 2024 Artwork Calendar. Every year our Wednesday group create artwork with guidance from Art therapists and long- term Artist volunteer Helen Newton for our annual calendar. This year we are showcasing this work in honour of his Majesty King Charles III to celebrate the coronation and the commencement of his

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Funder Spotlight - Gillian Stevenson
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Funder Spotlight Gillian Stevenson Trust – ‘Caring Matters’

Funder Spotlight: Gillian Stevenson Trust – ‘Caring Matters’ The Gillian Stevenson Charitable Trust CIO was set up in 2021 in honour of their ‘lovely mum’ Gillian.   “Mum spent many years as a primary school teacher and, because of her kind and caring nature, always had a real affinity with children, whether that be those in her class, our childhood

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Headway Leicester are Community Ambassadors for the NHS Research Enablement Project
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NHS Research Enablement Project

Headway Leicester are Community Ambassadors for the NHS Research Enablement Project. “Be Part of Research enables you to find and take part in a range of health and care research. Health research helps to discover new and better ways to treat diseases, improve the NHS and the quality of care across the country. Anyone can take part in research whether

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