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Please help Santa provide funds for the work of Headway Essex

The Braintree Rivers Rotary Club Santa Sleigh will this Christmas be raising funds to assist the amazing work of Headway Essex, a local charity providing care and support for survivors of brain injury and their families and carers.

The Headway Centre in Colchester offers direct care to survivors of brain injury, providing rehabilitation activities designed to aid recovery and provide support.

The centre is open five days a week, where people with brain injury and their carers' are helped with issues including:

• Improving personal health and self-care
• Increasing their understanding of how their brain injury has affected them
• Improving self-esteem and confidence
• Increasing independence and reducing social isolation

Some people will need Headway's help for only a few months, while others may attend for a number of years.

Many activities are designed to help improve cognitive skills including concentration, memory, information processing, forward planning, and understanding commands or instructions; physical skills such as co-ordination and balance are required for others; and throughout virtually all activities, social skills are developed, including recognising other people's needs, taking turns, listening and making yourself understood. These are all skills we take for granted that can be lost following a brain injury.

To find out more, please visit the Headway Essex website.

Headway Essex is a Registered Charity No. 1008807 and a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England No. 2674755