Posts Tagged “MakingHeadwayCam”
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Thank You For Making It A Great Day
Thank you to everyone who came to our ‘Seeds of Summer’ Garden Party and helped make it a really great day. The event, held on Saturday 11 June, coincided with Carers Week: ‘an annual awareness campaign to celebrate and recognise the vital contribution made by the UK’s 6.5 million carers’* enabling us to celebrate the Seeds of Summer with our clients and their family and carers. Many of our clients are reliant on somebody for ... Read more... -
Wanted: A Research Volunteer To Join Our Exciting Heritage Project!
Do you have an inquisitive mind? Are you a natural detective who knows when to dig deeper and when you’ve exhausted a lead? Are you interested in working with archive materials and photographs, and helping people with brain injuries to make sense of these materials to produce an exhibition? Project Background Looking Back at Making Headway is an exciting new project that will see people with brain injuries working as part of an all-ability group of volunteers uncovering existing mat... Read more... -
We Need You!
Would you be interested in being recorded talking about your experience of brain injury? Would you like your story to become part of the historical record of Cambridgeshire? Headway Cambridgeshire are running an exciting heritage project called ‘Looking Back at Making Headway’. This project involves recording the oral (or spoken) histories of peo... Read more... -
Another outing for the Heritage project!
As part of Cambridge Disability History Month, Headway will be holding a stall at the Meadows Community Centre in Cambridge on Monday 7 December with a focus on our Making Headway project, funded by the British Heritage. The day will include speakers, performers, stalls and various other activities. The event is open to the public between 10.30am and 2pm so why not come along and get involved? Wendy, our regular client blogger, has given us an update of the pro... Read more... -
Headway Cambridgeshire On Cambridge TV
Cambridge TV – is a free-view-channel highlighting the best in Cambridge arts, science, business and culture for viewers locally and around the world. They recently visited Headway Cambridgeshire’s Fulbourn hub centre to find out about the client-led Heritage Lottery Funded project Making Headway. Watch the short film here: ... Read more... -
Heritage Event Was A Great Success
We asked Wendy, our regular blogger for her thoughts on the recent launch of our National Lottery Funded Heritage Project. This initiative was kick-started during an evening presentation at The Museum of Cambridge on 22 October, 2015. Here’s Wendy’s take on the evening: "The opening of the Headway heritage project didn't start well as the taxi taking me there was running late, getting me wound up and irritated. When I finally arrived I managed to let... Read more... -
We Need You!
Are you interested in hearing people’s stories? Do you want to find out more about the history of Fulbourn and Cambridge? Would you be interested in volunteering some time to work with people with brain injuries? We want to train you to record oral histories about the history of Headway Cambridgeshire, a charity that suppor... Read more... -
Headway Cambridgeshire Launches National Lottery Funded Project
Headway Cambridgeshire, the brain injury charity, has received a grant of £59,700 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to look back at the way people with brain injuries have been treated since the mid-19th Century. The project, ‘Making Headway’, will also research the history of the site where the charity is based. The Ida Darwin site in Fulbourn was named after a pioneering local activist who was one of the first people to understand that people with mental health problems were ind... Read more... -
Travel Back in Time!
What’s the story behind Headway’s history? How has brain injury care changed in Cambridge since 1870? What role have local people played in these changes? You are invited to a special event as part of the Museum of Cambridge’s Talk of the Town series. We will be sharing the initial information we have at this early stage ... Read more... -
Invitation to Headway Heritage Event
Join us to launch our Heritage Lottery Funded Project: Making Headway Museum of Cambridge (Folk Museum) 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ Thursday 22 October 2015, 7.00 pm—8.00 pm This client-led project will research how the t... 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
