What a week! From 29th June to 3rd July, members from across Headway Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland’s Outreach and Day Services came together for our annual Activities Week—five unforgettable days packed with laughter, friendship, adventure and plenty of happy memories. Activities Week has become one of the highlights of our calendar. It’s ambitious, it takes plenty of planning and coordination,

July 5th, 2025 – What a fantastic day we had at Headway Leicester for our Summer Open Day this year! With glorious British sunshine beaming down, we welcomed family, friends, and the wider community to celebrate everything that makes Headway House such a special place.   The day was a vibrant mix of celebration, connection, and community spirit, made even more special by the

Please join us in welcoming our New Patron, Jane Nickerson MBE. Jane will work alongside our Patron of many years Malcolm Foulkes Arnold to support our groups and activities in the community and help to raise the profile of our charity, support our fundraising efforts and generally lend the credibility of her insight and experience to us!   Jane has

We are completely thrilled to be finalists in the Niche 2025 Business Awards, sponsored by trident as Charity of the Year!   There have been some truly significant moments over the last 12 months, but our highlights include taking a group to the Norfolk Broads, winning a National Lottery grant which gives us the opportunity to grow our community outreach

National Award for Headway Leicester!   In February of this year, we were awarded £16,700 from the National Lottery as part of their Awards for All grant scheme. We were so excited about this and the period of growth we were experiencing that we wrote to our then MP, Claudia Webbe, inviting her and some local councillors to visit us

The Nancy Oldfield Residential for Headway members in Leicester is back for 2024, and has been largely funded by Heather’s Skydive.     From the 19th-23rd August,  Headway members will be whisked off by Headway’s Services Director Mary, to The Nancy Oldfield Trust for a residential stay. We are absolutely thrilled to be heading back to such an idyllic place for