Edinburgh Headway Group

08/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone! 🎆

This week members have been creating some beautiful firework art to celebrate the new year using bright colours and chalk textures!

07/01/2026

New to Edinburgh! An Initiative for Community Wellbeing 🌟 🤝

A newly installed Buddi Bench is now placed next to Wellington Statue on Princes Street in Edinburgh City Centre!

The bench invites adults to sit, pause and have a short friendly conversation with a kind stranger if they wish. People can share a chat, a laugh, or simply feel a little less alone in our busy city ❤️

📍9 Waterloo Pl, Edinburgh EH1 3BG

Click the link to find out more
https://www.buddibench.org/ways-we-care

05/01/2026

We are very grateful to the Fletchers Foundation for their generous grant support for our Independent Living Skills.

As part of our Independent Living Skills our members take part in our daily cookery programme, creating simple nutritious meals in a group setting in our accessible kitchen. 🧑‍🍳🍳

This activity is a favourite for our members and the results are simply delicious 😋😋

17/12/2025

Phelim and Chris recently attended The Hospital Saturday Fund grant ceremony at Edinburgh University.

The generous grant for our charity will help us to maintain our walking group and day trips for the year ahead. These events are always well attended and a highlight for our members.🚶‍♀️

The Saturday Hospital Fund awarded a grand total of £137,000 to 27 Scottish Charities on the night.

Grants were awarded on the night by SHF CEO Paul Jackson and Scottish Rugby’s Gavin Hastings.

17/12/2025

What an inspiring day with the Scottish Head Injury Forum (SHIF) Edinburgh Open Forum—Surviving & Thriving After Brain Injury, held in the stunning Edinburgh City Chambers.

Phelim and Ali gave insight into our services and lived experience with brain injury.🗣️

11/12/2025

🌟Headway Christmas Lunch🌟

Members enjoyed a day out to Cuddie Brae for a festive 3 course meal!

Big thank you to our volunteers who supported the day 🎄❄️🌟❤️

04/12/2025

Scotland’s Disability Summit - 21st Feb 2026💛

27/11/2025

26/11/2025

This month, we had the opportunity to visit our artwork at Summerhall’s “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” exhibition, an inspiring annual showcase featuring work by people with lived experience of mental health issues. 🧠❤️

This year’s exhibition followed the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival theme “Comfort and Disturb”, inspired by César A. Cruz’s idea that “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

For our contribution, each member created two self-portraits - one reflecting a good mental health day and one capturing a difficult day.

We were proud to be part of this year’s exhibition alongside 394 exhibitors, and delighted to have seen our creations on display. 🖼️✨🎨

19/11/2025

Our first-ever Open Day at EHG was a great success! 🎉

On the 7th of November, we opened our doors to welcome visitors and showcase the work we do here at EHG.

Throughout the day, visitors took part in mindful art in the sensory room, empathy exercises, cognitive activities, and a presentation on brain injury. 🧠

A big thank you to our members who created beautiful door signs for the event, and our volunteers who supported throughout - including helping prepare some delicious cookies in our cooking group.

Thank you to Thompsons Solicitors for sponsoring the day, providing goodie bags, and a lovely lunch for everyone. 💙

03/11/2025

Happy Halloween everyone! We had some amazing spooky outfits last week from our members and volunteers 🎃 💀👻

Thank you to everyone who got involved you all looked great!

03/11/2025

We’re supporting Befriending Week, the campaign to raise awareness about befriending and highlight the power of social connection in reducing loneliness and social isolation. 🤝

Did you know loneliness affects 1 in 6 people globally? Befriending brings people together for planned social activities, building meaningful connections and reducing loneliness.

Find a befriending project near you:
https://befriending.co.uk/organisations-directory/


November 1-7