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Headway East Lothian – Outdoor to Indoor Art

Our project has been shortlisted for a public vote in Tesco’s #BagsofHelp initiative! Vote for us to win the top prize in store!

Vote in Tesco stores 1 to 25 February to help us secure a Tesco #BagsofHelp grant.

Bags of Help offers community groups and projects across the UK a share of revenue generated from the 5p charge levied on single-use carrier bags. The public will now vote in store from 1 to 25 February on who should receive the £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 awards.

Bags of Help website www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp

These are the stores that you can vote for Headway East Lothian in:
DALKEITH HARDENGREEN    EH22 3PP
EDINBURGH       EH7 4EW
EDINBURGH EXPRESS       EH8 7NG
HADDINGTON      EH41 3LZ
LEITH WLK EDINBRG EXP   EH7 5HW
GREAT JCT ST EDIN EXP   EH6 5LJ
NORTH BERWICK   EH39 5NF
PICARDY PLACE EDI EXP   EH1 3JT
MUSSELBURGH EXTRA       EH21 7BL
EDINBURGH LEITH EH6 8HL
EDINBURGH LEITH EH6 8HL
EDINBURGH GRACEMT EXP   EH16 6RS
EDINBURGH NIDDRIE EXP   EH16 4DT
EDINBURGH DUNDAS EXP    EH3 6JN
BONNYRIGG ROSEWLL EXP   EH19 3PA

Thanks to the team from Ross High School; Kirsten, Sarah and Fay for all their hard work in producing an excellent presentation about Headway East Lothian and living with an acquired brain injury. We received a cheque to the value of £3000 from YPI Scotland and hope to have the girls along to our Awards evening on Wednesday 7th September at the Doughty Centre, Haddington to show them how much we appreciate their efforts.

The girls made this video as part of their presentation, please have a look.

Headway East Lothian presentation

A FREE event for professionals and for people affected by all types of acquired brain injury and head injury, including families and carers.

For further information click here – Head Injury Poster

At the end of last year there were many disappointing reports in the national media about the alleged fundraising methods of some of the biggest charities.  The national coverage of these issues in the media has damaged confidence in the voluntary sector.

Headway UK works within a set of ethical fundraising principles. These are as follows:

• We do not employ third-party agencies to cold call and pressurise people in their own home!
• We do not employ ‘chuggers’ to accost people as they go about their daily lives.
• We will provide people with all the support they may need should they choose to take on a fundraising challenge for Headway.
• We will never give the ‘hard sell’. If we have to convince people that we’re worth supporting, we’re not doing our jobs!
• We promise not to bombard people with excessive mailshots.
• We believe that people should have complete control over how much information they would like to receive from Headway.
• We respect people’s privacy and will never share or sell their details or personal information to any other agency.
• Every donation we receive helps us to go that one step further to improving life after brain injury!

These fundraising principles are visible on the Headway website https://www.headway.org.uk/donate/our-fundraising-principles

Free information events for professionals and for people affected by all types of acquired brain injury and head injury, including families and carers.

SaveTheDate – Head Injury Information Days

Two intrepid women are getting ready to climb three of the east of Scotland’s most well-known hills, as a thank you to a charity which helped one of them overcome a severe brain injury. Read more in the articles below.

• HW East Lothian Fiona Grant-MacDonald East Lothian Courier Jul 15
• HW East Lothian Fiona Grant-MacDonald East Lothian News Jul 15

Headway East Lothian SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) supports adults over the age of 18 with an Acquired Brain Injury, their families and carers through the provision of peer support groups, access to advice and information, weekly meetings, and the provision of therapeutic activities aimed at increasing members’ health and wellbeing.
There are many opportunities for volunteers to become involved in our groups.

The Board of Directors is actively seeking new members to boost the skills base; IT skills, effective communication, business management, human resources, financial awareness and experience of other charity work are an advantage but not essential.

We also have opportunities for those who would like to assist in the day to day running of sessions; organising or providing transport to and from meetings, arranging speakers and activities either through 3rd parties or with other members of the staff team. Interests in the arts & crafts, exercise, relaxation, talking and listening are all welcome.

This is a great opportunity for those who have a professional interest in brain injury, rehabilitation medicine, psychology or the applied therapies such as occupational, speech and language and physiotherapy.

Working with Headway can be a useful tool to other professions and a great learning experience. We offer full induction training, PVG applications, expenses are provided and the opportunity to take part in nationally accredited training through Headway UK. We welcome applications from all age groups and streams of society and are pleased to be part of the Saltire Awards for younger volunteers. Volunteering with Headway East Lothian can be very flexible; from a few hours each week to a few hours each month. As our groups grow with an ever increasing demand for our services so does our need for committed volunteers.

For further information and an application pack please contact Joyce Cattanach, Development Officer on any of the details below.

Joyce Cattanach
Development Officer
Headway East Lothian
c/o The Bleachingfield Centre
Countess Crescent
Dunbar
EH42 1DX
07895193974

headwayeastlothian@live.co.uk

www.headway-eastlothian.org.uk

www.facebook.com/headwayeastlothian

Affiliated to Headway – the brain injury association

Join us on Sunday 7th June 2015 at 2pm and support Headway East Lothian.  This event will take place at The Thorntree Inn, High Street, Cockenzie, tickets are available from Irene, Joyce and The Thorntree Inn.  For further information call 07895193974.

Headway East Lothian, Development Officer, Joyce Cattanach receives £300 for the Headway East Lothian Group for the Christmas Card and Calendar Competition.

Alba Surridge and Jeanine McNaught, joint winners of the Christmas Card and Calendar Competition, the winning design will represent July/August in the Calendar Competition.  Each of the winners receive a £50 gift card.

Winning entry by Alba Surridge and Jeanine McNaught representing July/August in the calendar competition.

Leading brain injury charity Headway has welcomed new rules on how Premier League football clubs deal with head injuries.