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A national charity with regional branches that exists to support people who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
Full details of 1Voice – Communicating Together  The charity provides support and quality information to people affected by brain and spine conditions, in order to reduce anxiety and help inform their choices. It provides a free helpline staffed by experienced neuroscience nurses.
Full details of Brain & Spine Foundation  The Brain Injury Hub, developed by The Children's Trust, provides information about brain injury in an understandable language to help parents, teachers and families on their on-going journey following a child's brain injury.
Full details of Brain Injury Hub  A support group for people who have loved ones with devastating brain injuries: they may be severely disabled, in a persistent vegetative state, minimally aware/conscious or locked in. Online forum and telephone helpline.
Full details of Brain Injury is BIG  BABICM represents the professional interests and concerns of case managers who work with those affected by ABI or other complex condition that requires co-ordinated rehabilitation, care and support.
Full details of British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers  Belfast-based employment and re-employment advice; employability services are aimed at people (age 16+) with disabilities including physical and sensory disabilities and brain injury. Northern Ireland.
Full details of Cedar Foundation (Belfast)  We are here to support families and professionals working with children and young people who find themselves in need of information about what’s happened and how to cope. We are here to listen and to help with practical and emotional issues which may arise over time.
Full details of Child Brain Injury Trust  A charity run by younger stroke survivors for younger stroke survivors.
Full details of Different Strokes  Voluntary organisation run from Kent, the Trust gives grants to people all over the UK to enable them to continue to garden, despite disability or advancing illness.
Full details of Gardening for Disabled Trust  The UK's largest meningitis charity offering support, funding research and raising awareness.
Full details of Meningitis Now  Supply and design standard and custom made disability equipment for children and young people. Part of Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People Family of Charities.
Full details of MERU – Children’s Charity  P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery exists to make life easier after brain injury by providing guidance and support to empower all affected by ABI.
We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding of brain injury.
Full details of P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery  A Facebook support group for the families, friends and carers of people in a persistent vegetative state.
Full details of Persistent Vegetative State Support Group  Range of specialist services delivering tailored care to support people with complex, acquired and progressive brain conditions. Based Northampton
Full details of St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton  The UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury: providing rehabilitation to help children make the best recovery possible after a serious accident or illness at national specialist centre in Surrey and in the community.
Full details of The Children’s Trust  We improve the lives of people with brain injuries across the UK. Our two hospitals, 14 assessment and rehabilitation centres and 28 services in the community support them to regain the skills they have lost. From rehabilitation to long-term care, our brain injury services help people to move forward with their lives.
Full details of The Disabilities Trust  The brain inflammation charity providing advice and information, raising awareness and funding research. Offers expert help via phone, Skype and email.
Full details of The Encephalitis Society  Small national fundraising charity that aims to help disabled members reach their full potential through the provision of suitable communication equipment.
Full details of The Sequal Trust  Search by postcode to find live-in care providers in your area.
Full details of The UK Live-In Care Association  A national charity that uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable. Projects in Reading, London and Birmingham.
Full details of Thrive  National body that aims to promote and develop wheelchair dancing as a sport and leisure activity across the country. Groups around the UK.
Full details of Wheelchair Dance Sport Association (UK)  Wheels for Wellbeing supports disabled and older people to get cycling across the UK.
Full details of Wheels for Wellbeing  National charity supporting children and young people aged 25 and under with epilepsy and associated conditions, as well as their families, providing diagnosis, assessment and rehabilitation; also undertakes research into the condition and how it can be treated.
Full details of Young Epilepsy  Scotland
Headway Edinburgh Group aims to empower and enrich the lives of adults who have survived an acquired brain injury by providing high quality person-centred rehabilitation services which support both adults with brain injuries and their carers.
Full details of Edinburgh Headway Group  Aims to support and improve the quality of life for people with ABI, their families and carers, offering advice, information and resources.
Full details of Headway East Lothian  Runs support groups throughout the Highlands and offers access to a free accredited counselling service; also signpost other organisations and services.
Full details of Headway Highland  Survivors Supporting Survivors was formed in May 2021 and is a registered charity in Scotland (SC051009). Our organisation intends to run a number of activities in order to provide relief to those who have suffered or been affected by brain injuries. As a lived experience organisation we aim to use our experiences to support fellow survivors in whatever area they are struggling with post-injury, as well as having fun, making friends and progressing in life again.
Full details of Survivors Supporting Survivors  North East
P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery exists to make life easier after brain injury by providing guidance and support to empower all affected by ABI.
We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding of brain injury.
Full details of P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery  North West
Small charity working with children and adults with all forms of neurological impairment and brain injury. Treat people of all ages and levels of severity; psychology, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy. Chester / North West
Full details of Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Development – BIRD Charity  Yorkshire
Supporting brain injury survivors, their carers and families in Huddersfield and district. We cover Kirklees and Calderdale areas and have members from Wakefield.
Full details of Headway Huddersfield and District  P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery exists to make life easier after brain injury by providing guidance and support to empower all affected by ABI.
We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding of brain injury.
Full details of P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery  Wales
Headway Gwynedd and Mon supports brain injury survivors and their families/carers, all welcome at our monthly support groups across North Wales.
Full details of Headway Gwynedd & Mon  West Midlands
The Carer Support Team offers a range of support for carers of adults living in Wolverhampton.
Full details of Carer Support Centre (Wolverhampton)  A valuable source of help, information and support for people with brain injury, their carers and families within North Staffordshire for over 30 years from its base in Stoke-on-Trent.
Full details of Headway North Staffordshire  Headway Shropshire is a Shropshire based charity established in 1989. Our specialist service provide support to people over the age of 18 with an acquired Brain Injury, the families, carers and professionals in the Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Area.
Full details of Headway Shropshire  Brain injury hubs in Worcester, Kidderminster and Bromsgrove; outreach services across Worcestershire.
Full details of Headway Worcestershire  A national charity that uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable. Projects in Birmingham, Reading and London.
Full details of Thrive  East Midlands
A charitable organisation providing support and services to individuals, family members and carers affected by an ABI. Based Irthlingborough.
Full details of Headway East Northants  Charity supporting independent living. East Northamptonshire.
Full details of SERVE  Range of specialist services delivering tailored care to support people with complex, acquired and progressive brain conditions. Committed to becoming a national centre of excellence.
Full details of St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton  East of England
Independent charity providing meals on wheels to the elderly and infirm in Cambridgeshire.
Full details of Camms Meals on Wheels Ltd  Supporting people with a brain injury and those who care about them from two hubs in Peterborough and Fulbourn. Programme of activities and specialist services aimed at recovery and social rehabilitation.
Full details of Headway Cambridgeshire  Provides tailored care to adults with complex, acquired or progressive neurological conditions; four decade’s experience of pushing the boundaries of what is possible in neurobehavioural treatment and rehabilitation by repeatedly transforming complex behaviour in to user engagement and goal-fulfilment. Northampton
Full details of St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton  London
A charity for people with aphasia, a communication disability which occurs when the communication centres of the brain are damaged. It is usually caused by stroke, but can also be caused by brain haemorrhage, head injury or tumours.
Full details of Connect, The Communication Disability Network  Provide life-changing learning for children and adults with cerebral palsy and other movement disorders.
Full details of CPotential  fAABI is a Westminster-based charity supporting adults living with an acquired brain injury (ABI) across all London boroughs to build the knowledge, skills and confidence to live life to the full. We organise social activities and workshops for people with an ABI and their loved ones such as movie nights, off-site events and Subbuteo sessions, as well as sessions to help people with an ABI develop new skills including guitar, piano, creative writing and basic law lessons, and more.
Full details of fAABI  Works to provide assistance, support, information and services to people with a brain injury, their families and carers, and the professionals working with them. Monthly group meetings in Wimbledon, Croydon, Richmond and Balham.
Full details of Headway South West London  Assistance, support, information and services for people with brain injuries and for their families, carers and relevant professionals. Group meetings in Fulham, Hammersmith and Paddington.
Full details of Headway West London  A national charity that uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable. Projects in London, Reading and Birmingham.
Full details of Thrive  Wheels for Wellbeing supports disabled and older people to get cycling in South London and across the UK.
Full details of Wheels for Wellbeing  South East
Supporting adults across West Kent affected by brain injury, either as a result of an accident or illness from our centre in Tunbridge Wells. Offer support in the community through Community Wellbeing Support Groups (Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells) and a programme of activities.
Full details of Brains Matter  Cognitive rehabilitation, support and services for those affected by brain injury across the county of Surrey.
Full details of Headway Surrey Head Injuries Association Ltd  A brain injury can be life changing and impact on many areas of a person’s life. That’s why we’re here to help. Headway Sussex supports people living with an acquired brain injury and their family carers across Sussex. This can be the result of many different causes including stroke, accident, tumour, infection, sporting injury or assault.
From providing advice and support during the initial spell in hospital, to one-to-one support at home, counselling and access to community support groups, we help people continue to live independently and live with their acquired brain injury.
Full details of Headway Sussex  Helping children make the best recovery possible after a serious accident or illness at national specialist centre at Tadworth, Surrey.
Full details of The Children’s Trust  Specialist residential and respite care for ex-servicemen and women who require nursing care and rehabilitation.
Full details of The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home, Worthing  A national charity that uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable. Projects in Reading, London and Birmingham.
Full details of Thrive  South West
Provides long term support to adults over 18 years with confirmed diagnosis of brain injury, and to their families and carers. Affiliated to Headway UK.
Full details of Headway Bristol  Helping you
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Choosing the right legal adviser
A brain injury can change a person’s life significantly – and that of their family. Many injuries are unfortunately the responsibility of a third party, in which case there may be the potential to make a claim for compensation. A successful claim could go a long way towards supporting a rehabilitation programme, or providing long term care, or simply easing the financial burden caused by changed circumstances.
If you think you have a claim, speak to several lawyers and ask lots of questions before you instruct anyone; you need to find someone you can relate to. When you speak to any one of our network members, you can be confident that they have a track record of handling brain injury cases and appreciate all the complexities.
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