Headway Derby was founded in 1994 and every year since we have continued to support more brain injury survivors and their families than ever before.

As many of you might already know our charity has financially struggled year upon year for a long time, and whilst we have worked extremely hard over the past 12 months, we continue to find ourselves in deficits that we cannot avoid.

The cost-of-living crisis has meant our finances don’t always look as healthy as we wish them to, but we always make sure that we are doing our absolute best to carry out our mission of improving life after brain injury in Derby and Derbyshire.

If you have known Headway Derby for a while, you will know we have moved offices and buildings more times than you could count, mainly due to lack of funds. We’ve been at our base on Bateman Court now since 2019, but we have bigger and better plans for our future.

Now, this is where we need your help! As a charity that receives no statutory funds, we have expenditure higher than we can afford due to our leasing of our office and brain injury hub.

So, here is our bigger than ever plan! We want to purchase Headway Derby’s forever home! Now, we know this is a massive goal, and whilst the majority of the funds will come from a (hopefully) successful grant, we have to supply 20% of match funding to even stand a chance.

Our target of £75,000 is a huge ask, we know that, but like they say – if you don’t ask, you don’t get!

So, now it’s over to our friends, supporters, colleagues, members, and anyone else to help us out in any way you can! Whether its lose change you can spare, or you can hold a fundraiser for us. Anything you can do to support will be of the biggest help!

This time next year, our vision is to be in Headway Derby’s forever home, and to say to our members ‘We did it! Welcome to your forever safe space’.