Headway Leicester News
Check out all of the latest news for Headway Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland!

Our New Patron, Jane Nickerson MBE
Please join us in welcoming our New Patron, Jane Nickerson MBE. Jane will work alongside our Patron of many years Malcolm Foulkes Arnold to support our groups and activities in the community and help to raise the profile of our charity, support our fundraising efforts and generally lend the credibility of her insight and experience to us! Jane has

Niche Business Awards Nomination
We are completely thrilled to be finalists in the Niche 2025 Business Awards, sponsored by trident as Charity of the Year! There have been some truly significant moments over the last 12 months, but our highlights include taking a group to the Norfolk Broads, winning a National Lottery grant which gives us the opportunity to grow our community outreach

National Award for Headway Leicester
National Award for Headway Leicester! In February of this year, we were awarded £16,700 from the National Lottery as part of their Awards for All grant scheme. We were so excited about this and the period of growth we were experiencing that we wrote to our then MP, Claudia Webbe, inviting her and some local councillors to visit us

Nancy Oldfield Residential is back for 2024!
The Nancy Oldfield Residential for Headway members in Leicester is back for 2024, and has been largely funded by Heather’s Skydive. From the 19th-23rd August, Headway members will be whisked off by Headway’s Services Director Mary, to The Nancy Oldfield Trust for a residential stay. We are absolutely thrilled to be heading back to such an idyllic place for

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Headway celebrate game changing National Lottery win
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Headway celebrate game changing National Lottery win supporting outreach program for brain injury survivors. Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Headway is celebrating a landmark moment receiving National Lottery funds to support its work, operating across the East Midlands to provide specialist support to individuals after a brain injury. The money put forward will fully fund

NELSONS LEGAL DIRECTOR APPOINTED AS TRUSTEE
NELSONS LEGAL DIRECTOR APPOINTED AS TRUSTEE FOR BRAIN INJURY CHARITY A SPECIALIST clinical negligence solicitor at leading East Midlands firm Nelsons has been made a trustee of Headway Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland – a longstanding brain injury charity. Following her support of the Leicester-based charity since 2021, Danielle Young will now sit on the board of trustees, helping