August 2024

Trip to Summerlee Heritage Park

By |August 21st, 2024|

Our South Ayrshire Community Rehabilitation Group enjoyed a visit to Summerlee Heritage Park on Tuesday 20th August 2024. The trip was a great success and a good time was had by all.

Our Pool Competition Winner

By |August 14th, 2024|

We’d like to congratulate the winner of our recent Pool Competition, Quincy McGarrie, who ‘pocketed’ this fantastic trophy, presented right on ‘cue’, by Headway Ayrshire Manager, Jayne McClymont. The presentation is pictured below. Definitely one for a ‘frame’! Well done, Quincy!

 

June 2024

Headway Ayrshire Client’s Fantastic Contribution to Digby Brown HIID Event

By |June 27th, 2024|

 

On Tuesday 14th May 2024, Headway Ayrshire participated in a Head Injury Information Day held by Digby Brown. The event featured several notable speakers including Headway Ayrshire Client, Craig Scott, who gave a fantastic talk accompanied by a very impactful video. You can view Craig’s video by following the link below.

https://headwayayrshireorguk.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/Management/EUpThVbHCU5PlPiDkgv_xRkBNIYKb-UXhJrePwmIyXLzeQ?e=tZqp2g

The event was attended by Headway Ayrshire Manager, Jayne […]

A Big Thank You to Our Kiltwalk Supporters!

By |June 26th, 2024|

 

This year’s Kiltwalk was held on Sunday 28th April and Headway Ayrshire were delighted and grateful to have 3 participants fundraising for us. We would very much like to thank Heather McGarva, Keith Waddell, and Jade Waddell, for their impressive achievement in completing the Kiltwalk and their generous support for Headway Ayrshire. We hope that your feet have forgiven […]

Success in Carers Week Poetry Competition

By |June 19th, 2024|

During Carers Week, 10th – 16th June 2024, Headway UK held a poetry competition asking brain injury survivors and their Carers to put pen to paper and submit a wee ditty in honour of Carers, or from a Carers perspective.

Headway Ayrshire are delighted to announce that Carer Diane Wilson was awarded second place with her fantastic poem, The Brain […]

Art Group Sculpture is Tip of the Iceberg

By |June 12th, 2024|

 

The Art Group at our South Ayrshire Community Rehabilitation Group were recently given the opportunity to produce a centrepiece on the theme of head/brain injury to grace a table at Digby Brown’s Head Injury Information Day on Tuesday 14th May.

After discussion, the Group chose to produce an iceberg sculpture to represent life with a brain injury. The thought behind […]

Volunteer Week 2024

By |June 6th, 2024|

This week is Volunteer Week 2024! A time to celebrate and thank our Volunteers.

We are fortunate to have our fantastic Volunteer Tutor, Margaret Clark, who provides invaluable support for our Clients in a number of ways, e.g. Cognitive Education Course, one-to-one Numeracy & Literacy tuition, coping strategies, and crafts, etc.

We’d also like to thank our fab team of Client […]

May 2024

ABI Week 2024

By |May 29th, 2024|

 

ABI Week 2024 was a great success! South and East Community Rehabilitation Groups wore a ‘Hat for Headway’, making a small donation to the cause. To “cap” it all, the wearer of the best hat at each group received a prize. We were “bowler-ed” over by all the fabulous headgear on display and a “beret” good time was had […]

A Big Thank You to Dominic!

By |May 1st, 2024|

 

We were absolutely delighted to receive this fantastic key holder, very kindly gifted to us by Headway Ayrshire Client Dominic Dougherty, who made it himself. It has pride of place in our Staff hub. We are very proud of Dominic’s progress and achievements! Well done and thank you, Dominic!

April 2024

Alex’s Artistic Achievement

By |April 22nd, 2024|

 

This beautiful charcoal drawing was produced at our Art Group by South Ayrshire Community Rehabilitation group member, Alex Bell. Alex is relatively new to the Art Group and has really taken to charcoal drawing, showing amazing promise! This lovely piece was very kindly purchased by Kim and Roy Cuthbert at the Group’s recent coffee morning. Thank you to Alex […]