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Free Information Day for Families

Headway is holding a FREE information day for Families and Unpaid Carers of Brain Injury Survivors. This is taking place on Wednesday 2nd March at Regent’s Wharf in London. Places will be strictly limited so please book in advance if you are interested.  Here are links to the Flyer and the booking form:

Information Day Flyer 2011

Booking form Information Day

or contact Annie Clancey, Headway London Regional Coordinator on 0208 858 5610

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Top Tips for Improving Memory!

At a recent Support Group meeting we had a presentation by a former volunteer on attention and memory skills and strategies that can help.

So if paying attention to things is tricky, try some of these:

• Do one thing at a time.
• If you’re doing a list of things, tell yourself ‘5 more’ to help you keep focus.
• Take a note of what distracts you – knowledge is power!
• If you are easily diverted by visual distractions, try blinkers or physically blocking the distractions out.

If remembering things are difficult, give some of these ideas a go:

• Rehearse information over and over again to help it stick.
• Try visualising the things which you need to recall.
• Associate new information with information you already hold – like if you meet a ‘Carol’ and your aunt is called ‘Carol’, then make that connection in your mind.
• Chunk information into smaller, more manageable bits e.g. break phone numbers up into shorter sequences.
• Create a story or rhyme that links the new information you are trying to learn.
• And of course, carry a notebook and pen at all times or spend some time figuring out what marvellous reminder functions are available to you on your mobile!
The important thing is to give these strategies some time- change may be slow but once you’ve figured out which strategies are best for you, it will be well worth the effort.
If you would like to research information about attention, memory and other related issues, have a look around this website http://www.projectlearnet.org/. Some of the information is aimed at students, but most of it applies to all ages.
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Towry Law raise £2,500 for HSWL

An exhibition of Keith Jansz latest paintings called ‘Drawn to Light’ was shown at Towry Law Financial Services in central London recently. The evening was in aid of HWSL and £2,500 was raised for the branch. Keith broke his neck in a car accident in 1995 resulting in paralysis from the neck down. A year later he took up the challenge of painting using his mouth not his hands and quickly became a Member of the Foot and Mouth Painting Artists, an international self-help organisation. Keith now exhibits all over the UK and overseas.
A big thank you must go to Towry Law for organising such a successful evening.
For more info on Keith please go to his  website:
http://web.me.com/kiwi61/Keith_Jansz/Home.html
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NEW! Social Group activities for 2011!

Our first Social Group activity will take place on Tuesday 22nd March at the Superbowl in Sutton. See our Social Group page for all the details.

We are now planning our next trip which will take place in May, if you are interested in volunteering to help or have ideas about future trips  please contact us.

Registered Charity No: 1150619, Company registered in England & Wales No 8328984. Affiliated to Headway UK, the brain injury association.