“Decaf by Default!” A simple change that can make a difference

Friday, 22nd August, 2025

 Headway Tyneside was interested to read about a pilot study within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust exploring a change towards serving decaffeinated drinks. Across the trust’s hospitals, decaf drinks were available but not routinely offered to patients...

Your Personal Roadmap After Brain Injury – My Brain Star

Thursday, 14th August, 2025

Headway Tyneside has launched ‘My Brain Star’ to support our members After a brain injury, it can be hard to tell how far you’ve come. My Brain Star is a tool that makes it easier — showing your progress, step by step, in a way that’s personal to you....

Understanding Benefits Changes

Tuesday, 29th July, 2025

Julie King, Family Support Worker tells us about the latest updates to benefit changes and what you can do to understand your entitlements Planned cuts to Personal Independence Payment have been scrapped for now, but changes to Universal Credit are still on the way....

Understanding my brain injury: a free course

Wednesday, 23rd July, 2025

  Understanding my Brain Injury Headway Tyneside is happy to announce a free training course for Headway members. The course runs for five weeks. It is designed to increase your knowledge of brain injury and its effects and provide you with strategies to support you...

New to Headway: LET’S DANCE!

Thursday, 17th April, 2025

Headway Tyneside has partnered with professional dancer Megan Brown to launch a dance class for people with brain injury. These sessions will be free of change thanks to generous funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.   Why dance? Moving is great for...