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Our charity provides care to adults with an acquired brain injury. The lockdown has severely impacted our clients' mental health, and has hindered their social and domestic skills. We want to improve their wellbeing by providing them with recreational and educational events to enjoy and learn from.

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  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Poverty Alleviation/Relief Poverty Alleviation/​Relief
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  • Beneficiaries

    • Older People Older People
    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind
    • People With Disabilities People With Disabilities

    Situation

    Our clients struggle with the simplest of tasks due to their brain injury, and used to come to Headway to practise lost skills and meet friends in similar situations. The lockdown has caused severe regression in these domestic and social skills, and their mental health has plumeted due to isolation, boredom and lonliness. The charity continued to support clients throughout lockdown but suffered loss of liquidity due to virus, so funds are too tight to spend on things other than care.

    Solution

    We want to reconnect our clients with local community and reintroduce them to daily skills like public transport, money handling and budgetting. We want to achieve this by taking them on holiday to Blackpool (which they loved in 2019!), on day trips out in community to educational and recreational places e.g to museums or the beach. We'd also love for speakers to visit our centres and chefs to give cookery demonstrations to stimulate clients. We want them to have much-needed fun and enjoyment!

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    100%
    Categories

  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Poverty Alleviation/Relief Poverty Alleviation/​Relief
  • Other Other
  • Beneficiaries

    • Older People Older People
    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind
    • People With Disabilities People With Disabilities