Supporting people who have a brain injury, clients had been busy making Easter Bonnets, cakes and biscuits for visitors. Clients had also been busy growing plants for a sale along with nearly new baby clothes.
Mary Goode, the Chief Executive, said: “We have been at our new premises for just over a year now and feel very much at home, as do three hens that arrived just last week. We have been lucky enough to have been successful finding some money to invest in our garden which we are developing to be wheelchair and hen friendly!”
She continued: “We are also taking this opportunity to come out into the open about an innovative project, Mind Your Head, which is an exciting new challenge aimed at helping people find solutions to both the problems facing those with a brain injury, and looking at how to prevent brain injury. Incorporating elements of both The BBC’s Apprentice and Dragons’ Den, Mind Your Head is an ambitious initiative led by Headway Cambridgeshire in collaboration with the Brain Injury Healthcare Technology Co-operative (HTC).”
Headway Cambridgeshire and the HTC are running a Mind Your Head pilot on the evening of 7 May 2014 at the Frank Lee Centre at Addenbrooke’s. Everyone is welcome to come along to look at solutions to preventing brain injury on construction sites. More information about this event and Mind Your Head can be found on the Mind Your Head website.
Professor John Pickard who leads the Cambridge Brain Injury HTC also came to Headway’s Open Day, this time to judge the Easter Bonnet competition, which was hotly contested and won by one of Headway Cambridgeshire’s hub service clients.
Other highlights of the day were Headway Cambridgeshire’s ever popular coffee & cake fundraiser as well as the chance to look around the charity’s premises and garden. A plant sale, sale of baby clothes, games and art activities complemented the fun filled agenda and the event was well attended by families, friends and neighbours.
Headway Cambridgeshire would like to thank everyone who came to the Spring Open Day as well as everyone who contributed, with either their time or donations, to make this such a successful day. Thank you all.
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