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Charity supporting adults with acquired brain injuries throughout Kent.

This page has been set up to keep our supporters up to date with all our activities and fundraisers that each of the five day centres have organised. Also for anyone looking for advice or support and to advertise items kindly donated to try and help raise funds for our charity.

14/10/2026

Folkstone! Helen is with you today in Asda for the day. Raising awareness, funds, and just generally saying hello!

If you are out doing the shopping, or planning to be, why not stop by and say hi.
Helen will be happy to answer your questions about us, and brain injury.

13/10/2026

🎨💗 INTRODUCING CREATIVE MINDS – A NEW GROUP FROM HEADWAY KENT! 💗🎨

We’re delighted to introduce Creative Minds, a new weekly creative therapy group in Canterbury for women living with brain injury.

Art is about so much more than what ends up on the page. It can be a way to express feelings, explore emotions, build confidence and discover new ways to connect with others. 🖌️

Creative Minds offers a warm, welcoming and supportive space where women can:

🎨 Explore creativity through art
💬 Talk and share experiences in a safe, supportive environment
💗 Build connections with others who may understand life after brain injury
🌱 Explore self-compassion and personal growth
✨ Try something new, have fun and enjoy the process – without worrying about getting it perfect!

There’s no need for artistic experience and absolutely no pressure to create a masterpiece. It’s all about the process, not the finished artwork.

Our weekly, two-hour sessions offer an opportunity to take some time for yourself, express yourself in your own way and connect with others in a relaxed and creative setting.

📍 Location: Canterbury
👩 Who is it for? Women living with brain injury
⏰ When? Weekly, two-hour sessions

Interested in finding out more? Get in touch with Headway Kent!

📧 [email protected]
📞 01227 864118

Sometimes, a little creativity can open the door to connection. 💕

Please share this post to help us reach women who may benefit from Creative Minds.

08/10/2026

How lucky are we today with our surprise guest!

Look who popped in to the Ashford Hub today to say hello! Go on Carole, admit it, you are missing us, just as much as we are missing you.🥰 😘 💙💛🩵🩷

02/10/2026

Service Update.

We are sadly unable to host our usual Gravesend drop-in next week because of operational limitations.

This means that our next Gravesend drop-in will be on the 5th of November.
Thank you for understanding, and we hope to see you then.

29/09/2026

reposting as it's a new week! 💕

25/09/2026

🎄🎁 We know… it’s early! But Christmas is coming! 🎁🎄

And some of us are already starting to think about Christmas shopping! 👀

If you’re planning on buying gift cards or vouchers for family, friends, teachers or colleagues this Christmas, why not buy them through Easyfundraising and help support a local charity at the same time?

It’s super simple:

🛍️ Go to Easyfundraising

❤️ Choose Headway Kent as your charity

🎁 Buy your gift cards or vouchers as normal

💷 Easyfundraising gives us a percentage of your purchase — at no extra cost to you!

Simple! 🙌

And there are loads of great names to choose from, including:

☕ Costa • Starbucks
🎬 Cineworld • Odeon
🏠 B&Q • IKEA
🛍️ M&S • Primark • Sainsbury’s • Sports Direct
🌳 Go Ape
💎 Swarovski
🧴 The Body Shop
🍝 Prezzo • Zizzi
…and plenty more!

So you can get your Christmas shopping sorted AND support Headway Kent at the same time. ❤️

Every little bit helps us continue supporting people affected by brain injury, their families and carers across Kent.

👉 Please nominate Headway Kent when you shop through Easyfundraising:
https://join.easyfundraising.org.uk/headway-kent/io9sxs/cr/pd5WTup9/GC004/sharetext

Thank you for supporting us! 💙

23/09/2026

🌱🥕 WE’VE GOT RADISHES! 🥕🌱

Today was a very exciting day in the Headway Garden… our first ever harvest! 🎉

Thanks to a generous grant from The CLA Charitable Trust, we were able to create our therapeutic gardening project this year for adults living with acquired brain injury (ABI).

And after all the planting, watering, nurturing and a little bit of patience… we finally got to pull up our first radishes! 🥬👏

But this garden is growing much more than vegetables. 💚

Gardening gives our participants the chance to:
🌱 Learn new practical skills
🧠 Build confidence and concentration
🤝 Spend time together and connect with others
🌿 Enjoy the benefits of being outdoors and surrounded by nature
✨ Experience that brilliant feeling of growing something from scratch

There’s something pretty special about planting a tiny seed and eventually getting to say, “We grew that!” 😍

Our first harvest may be small, but it’s a fantastic milestone for our garden — and we can’t wait to see what comes next!

A huge thank you to The CLA Charitable Trust for helping us bring this project to life. 💚

Now… who’s got a good radish recipe?! 👀😂

18/09/2026

💙 A Life Rewritten – what an incredible day! 🧠

Yesterday, we welcomed an amazing group of people to our “A Life Rewritten” conference, bringing together people living with brain injury, families, professionals, clinicians, therapists, researchers and others working to support people affected by acquired brain injury (ABI).

It was a day full of inspiring speakers, powerful conversations and shared experiences — with one clear message running throughout: we all want to make life better for people living with brain injury.

Some of the key themes from the day included:

🧠 Everyone should have the right to rehabilitation. Funding is tight, but this should never mean that someone is denied the rehabilitation they need.

✋Brain injury is a silent epidemic and should be a national conversation.

💙 Brain injury is more than physical. Emotional and physical trauma can go hand in hand, and recognising the whole person is essential to providing the right support.

🤝 Working together matters. The knowledge, experience and passion in the room showed just how much can be achieved when people with lived experience and professionals come together.

A huge thank you to all of our incredible speakers for sharing their knowledge, expertise and personal experiences, and to everyone who joined us and helped make the day so special.

We left feeling inspired, motivated and even more determined to help rewrite the story for people living with ABI.

Thank you for being part of it. ❤️

15/09/2026

🧵 A journey through history at Headway Kent! 🧵

Today at Headway Kent, we took a trip back in time to explore the fascinating Bayeux Tapestry — an incredible piece of history that tells the story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

With the tapestry now in London for the first time in nearly 1,000 years, we watched some interesting videos and learned more about this remarkable piece of storytelling. 🇬🇧🇫🇷

We then put our memory strategies into practice, recalling what we had learned using the 5 Ws — Who, What, When, Where and Why. 🧠

Later, we took inspiration from the tapestry and began creating our own versions of recording life events on paper. It was a great opportunity to think about how stories, memories and important moments can be captured and remembered for the future.

A fascinating day combining history, memory, creativity and storytelling! ❤️

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Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 4pm

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