Posts Tagged “Peterborough”

  • Growing Together

    At Headway Cambridgeshire we offer specialist rehabilitation for people with brain injuries. A vital part of the treatment is Horticultural Therapy which helps to increase psychological, physical and emotional well... Read more...

  • Benefits Entitlement Workshop

    Headway Cambridgeshire would like to invite anyone with a brain injury or their family / carer to attend a free workshop. Benefits Entitlement Workshop Monday 6th June 2016 10.00 am – 12.00pm Headway Cambridgeshire Block 10, Ida Darwin Fulbourn ... Read more...

  • Heads-Up Spring 2016 Newsletter

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  • We Have a Vacancy for a Senior Hub Co-ordinator

    Senior Hub Co-ordinator Part time 22.5 hours per week Salary - £23825 (pro rata) Based at Longthorpe, Peterborough Are you looking for a job where you can make a real difference? Headway Cambridgeshire is currently looking for a highly motivated, adaptable professional to join our multidisciplinary team providing specialist services to peo... Read more...

  • Olympic Medal Winner Gail Emms To Open Gym For Brain Injured People

    On the 18 January at 11.30 badminton ace Gail Emms who took home a silver medal in Athens in 2004 will officially launch a brand new gym at Thorpe Hall in Peterborough - a centre for both Sue Ryder’s Hospice and Headway Cambridgeshire’s provision of services for brain injured people. In our region about 20 people a day are admitted to local hospitals with brain injuries and after they have been discharged many of them need further rehabilitation. A well-equipped gym and specialist instru... Read more...

  • The Malcolm Williams Award 2015

    Each year, we present the Malcolm Williams Award to a Headway Cambridgeshire client. The award recognises the efforts and achievements a client has made in their life following their brain injury. Clients can be nominated by Headway Cambridgeshire staff or by other clients. The award is presented annually in memory of the late Malcolm Williams, who attended Headway Cambridgeshire as a client some years ago. In fact, once again, we presented two awards for the Year 2015: one to a client at ... Read more...

  • Sharon and Hazel's Rock Solid Race

    Headway Cambridgeshire's Peterborough hub service, based at Sue Ryder's Thorpe Hall, is looking to expand and incorporate a gym to aid rehabilitation after brain injury. Rehabilitation Worker Sharon and her cousin Hazel decided to help Headway Cambridgeshire achieve this goal by setting themselves a really grueling fundraising challenge. So they entered the Rock Solid Race, held on 19 September 2015. Essentially, this is a mud-based assault course that would challenge even the fittest of athl... Read more...

  • Peterborough Kitchen Garden Opening

    The transformation of an abandoned acre of the grounds at Thorpe Hall has been marked with the official opening of the Hospice’s new kitchen garden on 16 September 2015. Three months after work began, the patch of weed-strewn land is unrecognisable thanks to hundreds of hours of effort by volunteers under the leadership of a dedicated team from British Sugar. The kitchen garden, in the walled space many local people remember as being home to a volunteer-led garden centre, now boasts rais... Read more...

  • Admin volunteer: Peterborough

    Can you spare some time on a regular basis to help out at our social rehabilitation service for adults with brain injury? Headway Cambridgeshire provides specialist support across the whole of Cambridgeshire, for those affected by brain injury. Our services include social rehabilitation programmes in Cambridge and Peterborough, information advice and support at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and in the community; and one-to-one community support. ‘Brain Injury’ has various causes. For exampl... Read more...

  • Hub Service Volunteer: Peterborough

    Can you spare some time on a regular basis to help out at our social rehabilitation service for adults with brain injury? Headway Cambridgeshire provides specialist support across the whole of Cambridgeshire, for those affected by brain injury. Our services include social rehabilitation programmes in Cambridge and Peterborough, information advice and support at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and in the community; and one-to-one community support. ‘Brain Injury’ has various causes. For exampl... Read more...

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