49-53 Alma Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 2PL
49-53 Alma Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 2PL

A brain injury can happen to anyone at any time. The effects can be life changing. We are here to help you move forward with your life.

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About Us

Our staff and volunteers provide a range of activities, advice, guidance and support in our day centres in Luton and Houghton Regis. We also provide a Community Service involving home visits and support via email and phone.

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About Acquired Brain Injury

An acquired brain injury is an injury that has occurred to the brain since birth. There are many causes including road traffic accidents, drug and alcohol abuse, stroke, bacterial infections, to name a few. The effects vary with each individual and depending where on the brain the injury has occurred.

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How We Can Help You

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About Us

Our staff and volunteers provide a range of activities, advice, guidance and support in our day centres in Luton and Houghton Regis. We also provide a Community Service involving home visits and support via email and phone.

What we can do for you
About Acquired Brain Injury

An acquired brain injury is an injury that has occurred to the brain since birth. There are many causes including road traffic accidents, drug and alcohol abuse, stroke, bacterial infections, to name a few. The effects vary with each individual and depending where on the brain the injury has occurred.

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History of Headway Luton

In the 1990s, a group of local people came together to find support for their loved one or friend who had an acquired brain injury. There were no specific local services for people with an ABI back then. Over the decades Headway Luton has grown thanks to the founders, volunteers, trustees, fundraisers, funders and clients.

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History of HWL

We aim to:

  • Enable clients to live as independently as possible.
  • Maximise clients’ full potential, increase their personal skills and opportunities for social interaction.
  • Provide a wide range of educational, cognitive and social activities to meet the needs of the client.
  • Support family members and carers by offering advocacy, advice, information and emotional support.
  • Advocate and lobby for the development of appropriate professional services by all statutory and voluntary organisations for our client group.
  • Create a wider understanding of brain injury within the community through training, presentations and promotions.
  • Recruit, train and manage a bank of skilled volunteers.
  • Secure sustainable funding and other resources to further our aims and objectives.
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Client Stories

Read the stories and experiences of some of our clients. They all acquired their brain injury in different ways and at different points in their lives. The one thing they have in common is the assertion that there is life after brain injury.

Client Stories

Read the stories and experiences of some of our clients. They all acquired their brain injury in different ways and at different points in their lives. The one thing they have in common is the assertion that there is life after brain injury.

Client Testimonials

One of the long term effects of my ABI is that I suffer from anxiety attacks. These are very severe at the time I experience them. Although I find it very hard to leave my house to go to Headway some days, I am always very happy that I tried to get there.

Headway encourages me to learn. Before my brain injury I did not know how to use computers. Now it is my favourite activity.

My goal is not to get to where I was before my brain injury. My goal is to be better than I was. Headway has put me on a ladder, and I am climbing upwards. Having a brain injury is not all doom and gloom.

I was frightened to come to Headway at first but coming here has given me confidence to enter new environments and situations.

I love learning the acoustic guitar. We almost have a band. There is an electric bass, drumkit, keyboard and some people sing. It’s great!

Coming to Headway enables me to be more independent from my parents and carers. I come along, choose what I want to do with my day and have made lots of new friends who understand me.

Client Testimonials

One of the long term effects of my ABI is that I suffer from anxiety attacks. These are very severe at the time I experience them. Although I find it very hard to leave my house to go to Headway some days, I am always very happy that I tried to get there.

Headway encourages me to learn. Before my brain injury I did not know how to use computers. Now it is my favourite activity.

My goal is not to get to where I was before my brain injury. My goal is to be better than I was. Headway has put me on a ladder, and I am climbing upwards. Having a brain injury is not all doom and gloom.

I was frightened to come to Headway at first but coming here has given me confidence to enter new environments and situations.

I love learning the acoustic guitar. We almost have a band. There is an electric bass, drumkit, keyboard and some people sing. It’s great!

Coming to Headway enables me to be more independent from my parents and carers. I come along, choose what I want to do with my day and have made lots of new friends who understand me.

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Referrals

We welcome both professional and self referrals. Do contact us to discuss your situation.

Referrals

We welcome both professional and self referrals. Please do get in contact to discuss your situation.

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Latest News & Events

We are now an official referrer for Luton Foodbank

If you are struggling to cope with the costs of living, are disabled and have very limited income, you have lost your job and so on, do not struggle alone. Headway Luton is now an official referrer for Luton Foodbank. If you are a centre or community client or family member, please contact Claire who can apply on your behalf…

Quest Employment – climbing mountains for Headway

Quest Employment, Luton specialise in recruitment in the industrial, technical and commercial sectors. Their Luton office on George Street is just a few meters away from our day centre on Alma Street. Keeping it very local, they have chosen us to be their Charity of the Year, 2024. In March they are venturing up the Peak District and have other…

Winter closures: We are closed on Friday 22nd December and reopen on Tuesday 2nd January.
Winter closure dates

We are closed on Friday 22nd December and reopen on Tuesday 2nd January.

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Latest News & Events

We are now an official referrer for Luton Foodbank

If you are struggling to cope with the costs of living, are disabled and have very limited income, you have lost your job and so on, do not struggle alone. Headway Luton is now an official referrer for Luton Foodbank. If you are a centre or community client or family member, please contact Claire who can apply on your behalf…

Quest Employment – climbing mountains for Headway

Quest Employment, Luton specialise in recruitment in the industrial, technical and commercial sectors. Their Luton office on George Street is just a few meters away from our day centre on Alma Street. Keeping it very local, they have chosen us to be their Charity of the Year, 2024. In March they are venturing up the Peak District and have other…

Winter closures: We are closed on Friday 22nd December and reopen on Tuesday 2nd January.
Winter closure dates

We are closed on Friday 22nd December and reopen on Tuesday 2nd January.

Staff member from Headway Luton is presented with a cheque for £1000 from Ron, owner of Collaborate network. They are standing in front of a very large TV in Luton Hoo.
Chosen charity collects cheque from Collaborate Network

Thanks so much to all the members of Collaborate Networking Luton for the £1000 cheque presented at the latest networking meeting at Luton Hoo. Collaborate is a non-profit business networking group where a proportion of members fees are donated to us, their chosen charity member. Thanks so much all, and if you do want to join Collaborate, please contact Ron Overton www.collaboratenetworking.co.uk

Luton Head office and day centre

Houghton Regis day centre

Luton Head office and day centre

Houghton Regis day centre