A local charity is set to benefit from a year’s fundraising thanks to Sainsbury’s Meole Brace, customers and colleagues.
Headway Shropshire has been chosen as Sainsbury’s new Local Charity Partner for 2012/2013.
The announcement comes after the store asked their customers which local charity they should provide a year’s support to.
During the next 12 months colleagues will be providing fundraising support for Headway Shropshire and raising awareness of the charity within the local community.
Store Manager Peter Briggs said “Headway Shropshire is such a worthy cause, we’re pleased and proud to be to be supporting it over the next 12 months. We will be letting our customers know of our fundraising plans in-store and we hope they can join our colleagues in helping support them.”
Headway Shropshire aims to support people who have survived an acquired brain injury, their families, carers and friends. There are few specialist brain injury services available to people in this area. At Headway Shropshire’s Day Opportunities Centre, clients are able to take part in a wide variety of activities, all of which are specifically aimed to benefit an Acquired Brain Injury sufferer. Just some of the benefits from each activity are encouraging mobility, cognitive function, independence, encouraging speech, confidence building, all with the ultimate aim to enable clients to be able to once more live independently.
The centre has gardens, where clients grow vegetables, flowers and plants. There are a range of activity rooms; art, craft, woodwork, computer, social and music rooms also a kitchen to relearn the domestic skills required for independent living or to be able to cook meals to take home with them. Visitors to the centre are frequently lost for words having not realised the practical work that the charity does along with the provision of information and advice that it supplies.
Have you heard of Headway Shropshire? We are a charity, supporting adults who have survived an acquired brain injury, their families, carers and friends. You may think you don’t know anyone with an acquired brain injury but it might surprise you to know that sufferers come from all backgrounds, races, ages, religions. They could have sustained their injury through, accidents, illness, assaults, strokes, surgery, the list goes on, an acquired brain injury is all they may have in common. Even the range of disabilities is different in each case but each are people who may have been like you but who now have to regain their skills, confidence and learn new ways to continue their lives.
Our care and purpose designed activities assist in rehabilitation, respite and support. We aim to give people back life skills they have lost and enable them to live independently within their community again.
On average 1 million head injuries are treated in UK A&E departments each year yet we remain an unknown voice, however this year we have help, thanks to the customers and staff of Sainsbury’s Shrewsbury, choosing us as the Local Charity Partner for 2012/2013. We are overjoyed to be heard but mostly to have been voted for, we’ve been touched by the help and support from staff and customers, we will work even harder to thank them and to make the most of this opportunity to be heard.
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