Headway Birmingham & Solihull
Charity 1008798
Overview
Summary
Headway Birmingham & Solihull appears to function as a long-term, non-clinical rehabilitation partner for adults with acquired brain injury, rather than a short-term crisis or referral service. Its model combines hub-based activity, individual community support and family-facing services, suggesting an effort to sustain recovery across daily life, relationships and participation. The organisation also positions itself as a connector between people affected by brain injury, statutory health and social care services, and wider community opportunities.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Rubery and Rednal
Confidence: high
Direct evidence identifies Leighton House in Rednal as one of the organisation's three current brain-injury hubs and as a base for its ABI programmes. Rednal directly corresponds to the supplied Rubery and Rednal ward.
- Headway Birmingham & Solihull, BIP Services
The organisation states that its programmes and activities are based at Leighton House in Rubery, alongside hubs in Moseley and Sutton Coldfield. - Headway Birmingham & Solihull, Contact
Leighton House is listed in Rednal.
Moseley
Confidence: high
Direct evidence identifies Headway House at Moseley Hall Hospital as a current hub where the organisation bases ABI programmes and activities. Moseley is an exact supplied ward name.
- Headway Birmingham & Solihull, BIP Services
The organisation states that its programmes and activities are based at Headway House in Moseley. - Headway Birmingham & Solihull, Contact
Headway House is listed at Moseley Hall Hospital in Moseley.
Sutton Wylde Green
Confidence: high
Direct evidence identifies Sutton House in Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield, as a current hub where ABI programmes and activities are based. Wylde Green directly corresponds to the supplied Sutton Wylde Green ward.
- Headway Birmingham & Solihull, BIP Services
The organisation states that its programmes and activities are based at New Sutton House in Sutton Coldfield. - Headway Birmingham & Solihull, Contact
Sutton House is listed in Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield.
Perry Barr
Confidence: low
The organisation directly evidences a current charity shop in Great Barr. The available evidence does not establish that the shop is in the Perry Barr ward. This is a fundraising site, not evidence of an ABI service hub.
- Headway Birmingham & Solihull, Contact
The organisation lists its Headway Charity Shop in Great Barr, with opening hours Monday to Saturday. - Headway Birmingham & Solihull, Staff Teams
The staff page lists a shop manager and assistant manager for the Great Barr charity shop.
Remaining uncertainties
- The three hubs provide strong evidence of fixed service delivery in south-west, south-east and north Birmingham, but the available evidence does not identify the ward-by-ward distribution of people using those hubs.
- Community Outreach is explicitly described as operating in Birmingham and Solihull, including in clients' homes and communities, but public sources do not specify the Birmingham wards in which current one-to-one support is delivered. It would therefore be inappropriate to infer additional ward-level operational areas.
- The Birmingham Carers Hub partnership materially extends access to Headway's carer support across Birmingham, but the evidence does not show whether Headway itself delivers appointments or groups from locations beyond its three hubs.
- The evidence supports a citywide operational identity within Birmingham through citywide community outreach and the Birmingham Carers Hub delivery partnership, rather than evidence that every Birmingham ward currently contains a Headway service site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-location or referral-area map for the Community Outreach programme, with safeguarding-sensitive aggregation by ward or district.
- A current annual report or service performance dataset showing the geographic origin of ABI programme users and Community Outreach clients.
- Confirmation from Headway or Birmingham Carers Hub of which hub locations are currently used for carer assessments, counselling, support groups and other partnership-delivered activity.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Other Defined Groups
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge across the post-injury pathway
The available evidence suggests the organisation is designed to support people beyond clinical treatment, helping translate rehabilitation into social, leisure and vocational participation.
Why it matters
This clarifies its likely civic role: it may address the gap between formal health care and the practical work of rebuilding an everyday life after brain injury.
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“It provides person-centred activities at three brain injury hubs and one-to-one Community Outreach support to access social, leisure and vocational opportunities.”
Source:Organisation“It offers recovery and social rehabilitation services and can provide help throughout the support pathway.”
Source:Organisation
Family support is part of the operating model, not an add-on
The organisation appears to treat acquired brain injury as affecting a wider care network, with family and carers positioned as direct service users alongside the injured person.
Why it matters
This may make Headway an important source of resilience for informal carers, who can otherwise be overlooked in disability and rehabilitation systems.
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“It supports the wider family through Family & Carer Services, including a helpline.”
Source:Organisation“It works with the whole family and offers social events for others going through similar experiences.”
Source:Organisation
A specialist connector within a wider local system
Its combination of specialist brain-injury knowledge, hospital link work and collaboration with health, social care and other agencies may position it as an intermediary between institutions and community life.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may depend not only on its own services, but on how effectively it helps people navigate and coordinate support across organisations.
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“It provides information, hospital link work and community enablement.”
Source:Organisation“It works closely with health and social care colleagues and other agencies to make services as seamless as possible.”
Source:Organisation
- The scale, geographic reach and accessibility of the three hubs and Community Outreach programme are not clear.
- There is no evidence about outcomes, unmet demand, waiting times or which groups are least well served.
- The relationship between paid-for services, membership, charitable provision and public funding is unclear.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or performance data showing beneficiary numbers, outcomes, demand and referral sources.
- Information on service eligibility, costs, locations, transport access and demographic reach.
- Details of formal partnerships with NHS, local authority, rehabilitation and employment services.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Supporting adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) through the provision of person-centred activities at its three brain injury hubs across Birmingham and one-to-one support through its Community Outreach programme to help brain injured people access social, leisure & vocational opportunities in the community. Also supporting the wider family through its Family & Carer Services via a helpline, hos
Charity objects
THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEAD INJURIES FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH INJURIES AND THE RE-ABILITATION OF SUCH PERSONS