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In 1979 there were a few people who had relatives with head injuries. They found that after hospital there was nothing or no-one to support them.
Realising the need for a specialist care foundation, they resolved to form an organisation to work for the benefit of brain injury survivors and their families. They set up a steering committee and registered HEADWAY National Head Injuries Association as a charitable trust in 1980. In 1989 they became a Company limited by Guarantee.
In 1999, Headway changed its name from Headway National Head Injuries Association to Headway-the brain injury association. Headway has reason to be proud of its achievements. Since 1979 the organisation has increased from one steering commitee to over 100 groups and branches throughout the UK. Headway Black Country is one of these groups.
Headway (known as Headway UK) is run by its members headed by a Board of Trustees and staff at a Nottingham Office and a London Office. The Trustees are elected by the members .
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