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November Group Meetings
Wimbledon Group Meeting
Tuesday 10th November, 7:30-9pm
Drake House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4ED
A representative from the Citizen’s Advice Bureau will be speaking at our November Wimbledon meeting, giving an overview of the types of services offered by the CAB, with a particular emphasis on the topics most relevant to our members, eg benefits, housing etc.
Croydon Group Meeting
Wednesday 18th November, 7:30-9pm
Harris Academy Purley, Kendra Hall Road, South Croydon CR2 6DT
As the group has lots of new members, we will look at brain anatomy and how the brain functions in our November meeting. Share your knowledge with the group and learn from each other.
Richmond Group Meeting
Thursday 26th November, 7:30-9pm
*NEW VENUE* Moore Blatch Solicitors, 2 The Green, Richmond, London TW9 1PL
Following the well attended talk given at our Wimbledon Headway Group in October, the Mindfulness speaker will be presenting again at the Richmond group on 19th November. Learn more about this style of therapeutic intervention and have the opportunity to participate in some practical exercises.
Meetings are now in our new venue, Moore Blatch Offices, The Green, Richmond.
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October Group Meetings
Wimbledon Group Meeting
Tuesday 13th October, 7:30-9pm
Drake House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4ED
This month at Wimbledon we have a ‘Mindfulness’ trained OT leading the session. The aim is to introduce ‘Mindfulness’ as a means of relaxation. Attendees will learn some simple techniques that can be used in everyday life. We hope to see you there!
Croydon Group Meeting
Wednesday 21st October, 7:30-9pm
Harris Academy Purley, Kendra Hall Road, South Croydon CR2 6DT
As the nights draw in lets brighten up out evening with tea/ coffee and cakes.
Richmond Group Meeting
Thursday 22nd October, 7:30-9pm
*NEW VENUE* Moore Blatch Solicitors, 2 The Green, Richmond, London TW9 1PL
Executive functioning – what strategies are best to use? Members are invited to come and share their most favoured piece of equipment, app or techniques to manage their memory, planning and problem solving.
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September Group Meetings
Wimbledon Group Meeting
Tuesday 8th September, 7:30-9pm
Drake House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4ED
Details tbc
Croydon Group Meeting
Wednesday 16th September, 7:30-9pm
Harris Academy Purley, Kendra Hall Road, South Croydon CR2 6DT
MEAL PREPARATION AND COOKING. Come and discuss the challenges you face preparing meals, both physically and cognitively. This will be an opportunity to share ideas and strategies about how to be more involved or improve your ability in the kitchen, as well as save time and energy! Sue will share some OT tips and ideas and get you to share some of your thoughts and pearls of wisdom. Bring along a favourite recipe of yours and we can then email these to everyone as an added bonus.
See you then!!
Richmond Group Meeting
For the Headway SW London Richmond group this month we will meet at Zizzi’s in Twickenham instead of our usual meeting place at the church. We will enjoy a meal courtesy of Headway and the aim of the session will be purely social and an opportunity to enjoy some lovely Italian food. We will meet at Zizzi’s at 19.30 on Thursday 24 Sept.
The address is: 36 York Street, TW1 3LJ
http://www.zizzi.co.uk/venue/index/twickenham
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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August Richmond Group Meeting
Thursday 27th August, 7:30-9pm
The Choir Vestry, All Hallows Church, Chertsey Road, Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 1EW
This month at Richmond we will talk about cooking and share different recipe ideas. It’s often difficult to eat healthy when we don’t have much spare time to prepare food/cook in the week. Please bring a favourite recipe to share and we can chat about how different recipes can be adapted to help understanding of information following a brain injury.