Headway Central Lancashire celebrates after receiving £19,560,00 of National Lottery funding to help local adults with acquired brain injury and major trauma.
Headway Central Lancashire, is today celebrating after being awarded £19,560 in National Lottery funding to support its work with adults living with acquired brain injury and after major trauma. The charity, based in Preston, will use the money to run weekly support sessions.
Headway Central Lancashire has been running since 2010 and is managed by 7 staff, 24 volunteers and a board of 11 Trustees. It was co-founded by Liz Bamber after she realised, through her own family experience, that the community was struggling to provide support to local adults and their families.
The charity now runs weekly sessions attended by 60 local adults, who take part in activities to promote independence, improve confidence and coping strategies and make friendships with others going through similar difficulties.
The project called Headinto Your Community will focus on two of The National Lottery Community Fund’s community-led funding missions:
• to support communities to come together
• support communities to enable people to live healthier lives.
The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is the largest community funder in the UK, will safeguard the sessions called Headinto Your Community for another 12 months.
Liz Bamber says: “We’re delighted that The National Lottery Community Fund has recognised our work in this way. Now, thanks to National Lottery players we will be able to continue our vital work in the community and provide a safe space for adults recovering from life-changing conditions to meet and create their own supportive circles of friends and peers. We thank every single player who are making a real difference to charities like ours”
The National Lottery Community Fund recently launched its strategy, ‘It starts with community’, which will underpin its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.