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SUMMER NEWSLETTER

In this issue:

Garden Project

Volunteers Week

Challenge The Wild

Hats for Headway Day

Surviving Brain Injury

Conference

Shrewsbury Handbells

Headway Shropshire: www.headwayshropshire.org.uk June 2016

A team of voulunteers from BT have transformed the

Headway Shropshire garden

News

“CHALLENGE THE WILD”

Are you ready for an experience of a lifetime, Headway Shropshire would like you to take up our

Challenge. Could you finish a "Bear Grylls " type challenge event. We have 100 places

available at our event on 3rd and 4th September in the Lake District. Activities include rock

scrambling, abseiling 150ft into a quarry, cliff jump into water from 30ft, negotiating tunnels and

cave systems, waterfall descent, wild camping and outdoor cooking.

To register or for more information contact Jo or Kim 01743 365271

Fundraising

Have you or are you fundraising? Would you like to share your story? Do you have some

fundraising ideas or plans you want to share? If so then please get in contact with our team.

Brain Injury

Do you have an acquired brain injury or are you caring for someone that does? Would you be

prepared to share your story? Your story may give someone hope or it may make another

survivor or carer feel less alone. Please do get in touch.

fundraising@headwayshropshire.org.uk

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JustTextGiving is a free service which allows individuals to donate and every penny

goes to charity.

You can donate up to £10 by simply texting SHRO01 (SHRO then zero one) and

adding the amount you wish to donate to 70070

Welcome to the Summer newsletter, it’s so lovely to be able to sit in the garden and enjoy a warmer breeze. As our needs have outgrown the space of the building we have had to take positive action. To this end and to enable us to realise our vision for the future we are starting a capital appeal to raise £550,000 to raise the roof of the building, making more space for workshops, better toilets facilities and meeting rooms. Plans are already in progress for the Summer Fair on 28

th July and I look forward to seeing everyone there. We

are also looking for volunteers to join a fundraising team to assist with all aspects of our fundraising to bring about the vision we have.

Jean Robinson

Chief Executive Headway Shropshire.

HEADWAY SHROPSHIRE SUMMER FAIR

Thursday 28th July 6pm to 8pm

Food Stall Woodwork Stall Plant Stall

Jewellery Stall Book Stall Entertainment

Everyone Welcome

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Carers Pamper Evening

Our carers group is an opportunity to meet other

people in the same situation, to value each

other’s ideas and experiences, to have a break

and get practical information.

Fundraising enabled us to treat members of our

carers group to have their hair styled, nails

painted, facials and a massage, whilst we

looked after their partners and children.

Our carers group meet every month.

If you would like more information

please call Jamie 01743 365565

Volunteers Week

At Headway Shropshire we are very

fortunate to have an amazing group of

volunteers that dedicate their time every

week throughout the year, at our

rehabilitation centre and share their skills

with our clients. To show our appreciation

we treated them to lunch.

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Thank you to everyone who wore a hat to show your support for

Headway Shropshire

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The Headway Shropshire garden has had a much needed garden makeover in May. The ‘DIY SOS’ style event has come into fruition following Headway Shropshire’s call for help to improve our outside facilities for clients – including adding a new sensory garden, vegetable garden and rockery, new seating area, addressing accessibility issues for wheelchairs and giving the whole garden area a much needed facelift, such as painting, weeding and mending fences etc.

A team of volunteers, from BT came to Headway Shropshire to assist for the day, offering the manpower and time, to ensure the work was completed. Local businesses also rallied round the charity’s call for help, offering an excellent range of resources, such as plants, trees, gravel, rocks and paints, as well as their expert landscape and planting advice.

Jean Robinson, Headway Shropshire CEO, added ‘The garden provides a vital source of rehabilitation and enjoyment for our centre’s clients. Improving the accessibility to the garden is important so all clients can enjoy the resource. Due to the generosity of the BT team, our volunteers and all the local businesses who have all been amazing with their kind donations, the garden can now have its much needed makeover’.

Headway Shropshire would like to thank the following businesses for their kind support of time and resources:

BT Topnotch Gardens Powys & Marches Stone Supplies

Travis Perkins Woodland Timber Love plants at Salop Leisure

Wickes Ludlow Plant Centre Boys & Boden Severn Trent

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On 17 March 2016, we held our most successful conference yet, ‘Surviving

Brain Injury - The Journey’, which took place at Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury.

I am very proud to be able to write and reflect on the event having been one of

the main organisers.

Approximately 250 delegates and exhibitors attended from across the county and beyond from

charities, health, and social care organisations. It was fantastic to see a number of clients and

other delegates who had sustained a brain injury, attending with their families and support

workers, all interested to hear and discuss how brain injuries affect people’s lives.

Amongst the speakers were Dr Nicholas Crombie for Air Ambulance, Sr Aisling McLaughlin from

the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Dr Andrew Worthington and Jayne Brake from Headwise, Neil Da-

vies at Lanyon Bowdler, Alison McNamara of AJ Case Management, Jean Robinson of Head-

way Shropshire and Pauline Holbrook at the Movement Centre.

A proportion of the ticket sales have been donated to Midlands Air Ambulance, Headway

Shropshire and The Movement Centre.

If anyone would like a copy of our information booklet ‘Understanding Brain Injury’ or would like to speak to one of our Brain Injury Specialists then please get in touch with us on 01743 280280 or email us at sbi@lblaw.co.uk

To read the full article please read our latest newsletter on the Lanyon Bowdler website

http://www.lblaw.co.uk/files/7314/6114/6010/UPDATE_General_Spring_2016_DOWNLOAD.pdf

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Shropshire Star

Cash for your Community

We are very grateful to everyone who

helped collect over 1100 tokens for the

charity. We have now received a cheque

from the Shropshire Star for £170.49

Shrewsbury Handbells

Thank you to Shrewsbury Handbells who have been fundraising for Headway Shropshire over the last year. We are very grateful for their support and they raised an amazing £1100. They very kindly played a beautiful piece of music for our clients at the centre and then our clients had the opportunity to play the handbells.

Board Members 2016

John Graham - Chairman

Jeremy Taylor

Trish Grantham

John Ankers

Neil Lorimer

Sandy Ramsey

We would like to welcome our new trustees appointed at our AGM in March 2016

Clare Dalby

Shirley Stewart

Tim Lunt

We would like to pay tribute to Pat Duffy who sadly passed away in March after being diagnosed with cancer. Pat was a trustee for Headway Shropshire for many years and we appreciate all his support and contribution to the charity. We would like to send our condolences to his family and friends.

Car Boot Sale Thank you to

everyone

who came to

our car boot

sale.

£172.55 was

raised

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

20th June Princess Royal Hospital Stall

18th July Princess Royal Hospital Stall

28th July Summer Fair 6pm to 8pm

24th August Princess Royal Hospital Stall

3rd September Challenge the Wild

14th September Princess Royal Hospital Stall

15th September Carers Support Group 6pm

20th October Carers Support Group 6pm

21st October Charity Christmas Card Shop

Opens at St. Mary’s Church

26th October Princess Royal Hospital Stall

23rd November Princess Royal Hospital Stall

3rd December Christmas Fair 2pm to 4pm

15th December Princess Royal Hospital Stall

We are always looking for volunteers to help us out with our charity stalls. If you are able to help for few hours your time would be appreciated.

DONATIONS

Wace Morgan solicitors - Cake Sale £178.00

Dawley Baptist Church - Hats 4 Headway £19.61

Hodnet Primary School - Hats 4 Headway £138.00

Whittingham Riddell - Hats 4 Headway £107.01

Juniper Training - Hats 4 Headway £20.00

Shrewsbury Hand Bells - Annual Charity £1100.00

Lanyon Bowdler - Brain Injury Conference £533.33

Co-op Radbrook £59.92

We would like to thank all those that have made donations,

without your help we would not be able to do as much as we do.

Contact Us

Give us a call for more

information about our

services and products

Headway Shropshire

Oxon Business Park

Shrewsbury

Shropshire

SY3 5HJ

Tel: 01743 365271

Fax: 01743 365563

Headway Shropshire Reg Charity Number: 1100376 Company Number: 4884834 Affiliated to Headway - the brain injury association

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