Posts Tagged “Funding Cuts”
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Peterborough Consultation
We need your help… Tell us “how can we provide the best possible services for you” Our move to Thorpe Hall has already had incredibl... Read more... -
A Day In The Life Of Our Chief Executive
Mary Goode is Chief Executive of Headway Cambridgeshire and this is her experience of a typical working day: 5:00: I live between Bury St Edmunds and Diss so it takes me quite a long time to get into work at the Ida Darwin Hospital in Fulbourn. I get up early and tank up on coffee. I always drink the de-caffeinated variety, so the buzz is purely psychological. I’m hyper enough without caffeine. The journey to work is accompanied by Radio 4’s Today programme whic... Read more... -
Have Your Say
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Urgent Funding Appeal - Spare £4 This Christmas
Urgent Appeal for Funding - Just £4 from your Christmas shopping this week will change the future for brain injured adults: Please donate £4 to Headway Cambridgeshire. One day can change everything You never forget the days that change your life. Finding out your own loved one has had a brain injury - ... Read more... -
ABI Week 2014 - Don’t Cut Me Out!
Action for Brain Injury Week this year will take place 12 – 18 May 2014. Headway UK have announced that the central theme and content for ABI Week will focus on increasing awareness of the plight of individuals affected by brain injury whose access to vital support services is being reduced as a result of funding cuts and welfare reforms. These cuts are hampering people’s ability to lead independent lives and are increasing the likelihood of them requiring additional stat... Read more... -
Interview with Chris Mann on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Around lunchtime on Thursday 12 April, Kate Ward (our Website & Social Media Administrator) called to ask whether I could take part in a live interview that very afternoon with Chris Mann on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. The subject was the “Give It Back, George” campaign, which Headway Cambridgeshire has joined with hundreds of other charities. The recent budget announced measures to limit the tax relief on charitable donations from rich philanthropists. I’d never done a live interview on... Read more... -
Headway Cambridgeshire Hosts MP Visit
Headway Cambridgeshire welcomed Dr Julian Huppert to its central Cambridge day service for a fact-finding visit. Headway Cambridgeshire has been supporting people who are living with the effects of brain injury throughout Cambridgeshire, for over twenty years and is funded in part by public sector funding.Mary Goode, Headway Cambridgeshire's Chief Executive, said: "We were delighted to show Dr Huppert our service in action and to take the opportunity to explain to him how cuts... Read more...
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Chief Executive Update 9 December 2011
Tees have invited staff from Headway Cambridgeshire to attend a celebration at their new Castle Park offices in Cambridge next week, where festive refreshments will be available. It will be a great opportunity to meet up with our friends Tees who have showed Headway Cambridgeshire so much support with their many 'Baton Challenge' fund raising events across the summer of 2011. We continue our developments in social media as work progresses on our new website, which we launch in January 2012. W... Read more...
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Enjoying a Model Conversation
Our regular client blogger, Wendy, has paid a visit to The Junction in Cambridge yet again. For a change it wasn't to see one of her favourite bands. Here Wendy tells us what she has been up to...... Read More
