 We were delighted to host a celebration evening for our incredible 2026 London Marathon runners, where we were thrilled to announce that Team HEN 2026 has raised an amazing £48,539.00!
A huge thank you to each and every runner for your dedication, determination, and support of our charity. Raising such a fantastic amount means the world to us as a small organisation — without you, we simply couldn’t provide the level of service we strive to deliver every day. We are so grateful to have you as part of Team HEN 2026! David of Platinum Plant Solutions visited our centre to deliver some fantastic news and meet with some HEN clients. We are incredibly grateful to Platinum Plant Solutions and Carmac Groundworks and Civil Engineering for their amazing donation of £5,000, raised at their bi-annual Charity Golf Day. Your generosity and ongoing support make a real difference, helping us continue to support adults living with acquired brain injury in our community. Thank you to everyone involved in organising and taking part—you’ve made a lasting impact! 
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to Leigh Claridge and Natalie Elliston from Certas Energy for their incredibly generous donation of £2,800 to our charity. It was a pleasure to welcome them to our activity centre and give them a tour, so they could see first-hand the impact of the services we provide. Their visit meant a great deal to us, and we’re so grateful they took the time to see our work in action. This tremendous contribution will make a real difference, and we are truly thankful for their continued support. 
Huge thanks to HEN supporter Dave! Dave has raised an incredible £900 for Headway East Northants by running the Manchester Marathon — an amazing achievement! Dave is no stranger to fundraising for HEN, having previously completed two London Marathons raising a phenomenal amount for our charity. Thank you, Dave, for your continued support and dedication to our charity. Your efforts truly make a difference to the lives of those living with an acquired brain injury.  We are delighted to announce that our Easter Coffee Morning has raised a fantastic £550! A huge thank you to the wonderful local businesses who supported the event with raffle donations, and to our amazing community for turning out and helping make the morning such a success. Your generosity means so much to us and helps strengthen the support we provide to individuals living with acquired brain injury. Burghley House Tesco Morrisons Bosworths Garden Centre An extra special thank you goes to our fantastic team of volunteers, who ensured everything ran smoothly from start to finish. We truly couldn’t organise events like this without their dedication and support. A huge thanks also to Neil from Lloyds Bank who kindly volunteered at the event and is facilitating match funding — keep your eyes peeled for an update on the final fundraising total!  Ridin’ straight into lunchtime with this delicious Cowboy Pie, handmade from scratch by Tim and Keith! Juicy sausages, baked beans, topped with creamy mash and baked made a comforting and wholesome lunch at the centre today - perfect while this chilly wind is still with us (come on spring, you know you want to!). Shout out (or should that be YEE-HAH!) to volunteer Jeanette for her support in the session! 
We are really proud to spotlight this fantastic piece of art by client, Sheena. Pieces like this truly reflect the importance of art and creativity in wellbeing, expression and personal achievement.  Loving our clients’ collage session last week focusing on positivity and moving forwards, no matter how small the steps or how fast the pace. Working together to turn challenges into chances. Confidence looks good on everyone.  We are back for a brand new year and feeling excited about what’s to come our way! While the festivities have been great fun, it’s been equally lovely to start hunkering back down into routine again. We’ve been thinking about all the things in life that spark gratitude in us, and what better way of expressing that than by sharing this fabulous poem, written by Headway clients with the wonderful Naomi Black of Growing Nai, who’s been working with us and facilitating some brilliant creative writing sessions! While this was created at Christmas time, the message rings true all year round.  What a brilliant afternoon enjoying our FIRST EVER pantomime together!
Brain injury doesn’t always make accessing the theatre easy - or even possible. So we arranged for the Laugh Out Loud Theatre Company to come to US instead! A fabulous performance of Sinbad the Sailor, thoroughly enjoyed by everyone and plenty of singing, laughter and interaction to boost festive spirit! This is exactly the kind of thing your kind donations and fundraising are spent on - ensuring brain injury survivors can access as many enriching and positive opportunities as possible. What a fabulous day we had at our annual Festive Coffee Morning, a HEN RECORD BREAKING £700 was raised! We had many wonderful raffle donations from supporters and local businesses which were greatly appreciated. HUGE THANKS to those that attended the event and our fantastic squad of volunteers who made the morning run as smoothly as possible. What a wonderful way to start the Festive Season!  We are absolutely delighted to share that Headway East Northants are the very proud winners of the Northamptonshire Community Foundation Healthy & Happy Communities award! Sincere thanks to NCF for selecting us along along such worthy fellow nominees, and for hosting such a wonderful awards ceremony at Northampton's Royal Theatre.  We’re delighted to be involved with the community garden owned by our friends at Morrisons/Myton Food Group. We’ve had a productive and enjoyable few sessions getting all the woodwork shipshape for summer and getting some beautiful plants and flowers established to blossom over the course of the season. A great chance to get outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine, encourage mindfulness and mental clarity and support the environment!  We’ve had a lovely morning outing to Keysoe International, meeting, greeting and grooming the gorgeous mini ponies, Mouse and Winston! Huge thanks to Elaine and the staff team who were so welcoming and informative; we learnt so much about these beautiful animals today. The deep emotional connection between horses and humans, and how they read our moods and facial cues, is often talked of. A special morning that we look forward to repeating very soon!  We would like to give notice of our AGM (for the year ended 2024), to be held on Friday 5th September at 2.30pm. Please get in touch to confirm attendance. 
Fantastic woodworking by client Chris who’s designed and created this beautiful bird box from scratch. Big thanks to volunteer Dave for his support with Chris’s project!  A massive WELL DONE to client Scott, who had an epic bowling session, scoring a turkey and hitting the top spot on the entire day’s leader board at the bowling alley, with a phenomenal score of 179!!!!! Go, Scott, you smashed it!  Shout out to client and stroke survivor, Graham who’s spent the morning making this glorious cottage pie from scratch. We wish we could find a way to post and share the amazing smell coming from the HEN kitchen! Another great example of the kind of specialist support we offer here - relearning lost skills and taking on board new ones, and supporting to live the most independent and enriched life possible after brain injury. Thanks to faciliator Ann, for her support in this session!  Huge thanks to Marianne of Patchwork Training (and of course the gorgeous Nutmeg and Merri), who hosted a morning session for our clients! Marianne, an experienced dog trainer and fully qualified Kennel Club Agility Judge, shared so much interesting knowledge with us about dog behaviours and the specialist agility, obedience and scent work training techniques she uses to get the very best out of the dogs she supports. We are so grateful for Marianne’s time - a terrific opportunity for our clients to interact with the dogs and learn more about them through questions, observations and discussions. 
We are extremely fortunate here at HEN to have a wonderful outside space for our clients to enjoy the glorious weather. Clients fostered critical cognitive skills by playing a game of Scattergories in the shaded area of the garden, followed by enjoying some refreshing ice lollies. Client Sheena was on hand to ensure that the beautiful flowers were tended to and kept well hydrated. A perfect summer’s day!  HEN Manager Jonny Tudor was delighted to meet members of the Waendel Walkers Club to accept a donation of £400! A BIG thank you all the Waendel Walkers Club members involved for their generous donation. The funds raised will be used to purchase resources for our clients including cognitive puzzles and games as well as supplementing our music provision.  We would like to give notice of our AGM (for the year ended 2023), to be held on Friday 30th August 2024 at 2.30pm. If you would like more information, please get in touch.  What a pleasure to welcome local musician, composer, writer and wildlife recorder, Nick Penny, to our centre. Nick kindly donated his time to give a talk and demonstration of some fabulous music instruments, including a harp and a handpan, skilfully playing them for our clients to enjoy alongside a subtle soundtrack of locally-recorded birdsong. Such an engaging, interesting and relaxing session for our clients, boosting not only cognition but mindfulness and wellbeing too. Something truly different for everyone to enjoy.  We are SO proud of client Louise, who has come third in a NATIONWIDE poetry competition! Organised by Headway UK for Carer’s Week, Louise’s acrostic poem about her support worker was described as: “A cleverly coordinated use of words that highlight the warmth, appreciation and thanks to her carer, enabling her life to be fulfilled. The impactful message evokes those feelings and gives a glimpse into the world of a close client/carer relationship”. Congratulations to Louise from us all! What an inspiration - creativity is for everyone!  A fun evening was had at our recent fundraising Quiz & Nibbles Night in Thrapston, a big THANK YOU to those that supported this event, you raised an AMAZING £800!  |