Read Headway News Winter 2018 Edition This edition of Headway News explores the issue of sex after brain injury, introduces the Headway Annual Award finalists and describes how one survivor coped with returning home following their brain injury. It also provides an update on all the work the charity has done to highlight the problems […]

On Monday 10 December 2018 sixty-seven members, volunteers, their support workers and family members from Headway North Cumbria participated in the Branch’s final event of the year, the Christmas Lunch – held on this occasion at The Auctioneer in Carlisle. Chairman, Andrew Kirkpatrick, welcomed everyone to the event providing a summary of […]

Headway North Cumbria has participated at the opening of the new Carlisle Branch of the Newcastle Building Society. The North East’s biggest building society has opened a new open plan branch at 65 English Street, Carlisle, just a short way along the road from the existing branch.  This forms part of […]

Headway North Cumbria’s Christmas Fair was held in The Victory Hall in Dalston on Saturday 10 November 2018.  Doors opened at 10 o’clock with a steady flow of visitors during the two hours that the Fair was open. Visitors were able to sample home-made mince pies and biscuits and a hot drink and meet […]

A sponsored parachute jump has raised £ 1,105 for Headway North Cumbria. Sharon Watson and Ashleigh Hoyle from Insight Rehabilitation support a number of our members and are regulars at our Day Centre and events.  They decided that they wanted to generate funds for Headway North Cumbria and came up with the idea of […]

The Neurological Alliance (NA) has announced that its third biennial patient experience survey was launched on 17 October 2018 and will be open until 17 January 2019. The NA is the collective voice for 80 organisations working together to make life better for millions of people in England with a neurological condition.   Its […]

Read the Headway UK News Autumn 2018. The autumn 2018 issue of Headway News includes: real lives feature in new film, MPs debate ABI, the debilitating impact of social isolation, I’m calling about Chris and much more!

On 11 August 2018 Headway North Cumbria participated in water sports in the Lake District.   Some twenty-two members of the branch took to the water along with seven members from Headway South Cumbria and two from Headway Tyneside.  Earlier in the week the weather forecast had not been looking good with a […]

David Wilson, father of Headway member Helen Wilson, has recently completed what he describes as “Hadrian’s Wall for Headway”.  This sponsored walk was aimed at generating funds for, and raising awareness of Headway North Cumbria and the work that it undertakes within the local community.  David was motivated to undertake […]

Headway North Cumbria has benefited from £379 raised through plant sales by Deputy Chairman and Day Centre Manager Jean Wight.  The money was raised through the sale of plants through an honesty box system where people were able to select from a range of plants laid outside her house, in […]