Action for Brain Injury
Welcome to Headway’s Action for Brain Injury hub — where awareness meets advocacy, and lived experience drives change.
One of Headway's objectives is to campaign to increase awareness and reduce incidence of brain injury. Every campaign we run is embedded with real stories of brain injury survivors, their families, and carers.
This section brings together our most powerful initiatives under two key themes.
Awareness and education
Helping the public, professionals, and policymakers understand the causes, consequences, and complexities of brain injury through the voices of brain injury survivors and carers. These initiatives challenge stigma, build empathy, and inspire action.
Policy and advocacy
Campaigning for fairer systems, better funding, and stronger support for those affected by brain injury.
We update our campaigns regularly, so keep coming back for more information!
Get Involved
We’d love for you to get involved with our campaign projects!
Whether you're living with a brain injury, caring for someone who is, or working on the front lines—your voice matters. Share your story. Use our resources. Help others understand what life after brain injury really looks like.
Each theme page includes:
· Impact highlights – see what your support has achieved
· Take action tools – write to your MP, share on social, or download resources
· Your stories – contribute your voice and help others feel seen
Share your story. Start a conversation. Support someone living with brain injury.
Together, we can make brain injury visible, understood, and better supported.
Explore our campaigns
Budget for brain injury
Headway and other charities are calling on the Chancellor to allocate funding to support the implementation of the strategy. Will you support our campaign too?
Find out moreBy the Bedside appeal
Find out moreA life re-written
A life re-written will be a campaign that illustrates how brain injury can affect anyone at any time, focussing particularly on how it throws plans into disarray, changes life goals, and even the sens...
Find out moreEvery 90 seconds
We focus on a powerful statistic: every 90 seconds, someone in the UK is admitted to hospital with a brain injury.
Find out moreSee the hidden me
'See the hidden me' raises awareness and understanding of the often misunderstood symptoms of a brain injury, and work to alleviate the challenges, and frustrations, survivors face.
Find out moreA life of lockdown?
'A life of lockdown?' will focus on social isolation after brain injury, a problem we know has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Find out moreMemory Loss: A campaign to remember
Raising awareness of the ways in which memory problems can affect brain injury survivors and their families.
Find out moreImpact of lockdown
Explore the findings of a Headway study into the impact of COVID-19 and the associated lockdown on people with brain injury and their families.
Find out moreBrain Drain: Wake up to fatigue!
Through our Brain Drain campaign, we aim to give a voice to those affected, helping to raise awareness and break the stigma of brain injury-related fatigue.
Find out moreCarbon monoxide: A danger to your brain
Raising awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide - an odourless, invisible gas that can lead to severe brain injury or death.
Find out moreMake space for ABI
Headway has been backing the changes to the Blue Badge scheme to recognise people with hidden disabilities.
Find out moreRight First Time
The Right First Time campaign is calling on the government to bring in changes to the disability benefit assessments which currently fail a large number of brain injury survivors and their families.
Find out moreYou, me, and brain injury
You, Me, and Brain Injury highlights the fact that brain injury doesn’t just affect the individual, but also their family, friends, colleagues, and many more relationships besides.
Find out moreA New Me
A New Me provides a platform for people to creatively share their experiences in order to challenge misperceptions of brain injury while demonstrating the value of having access to the right help, at ...
Find out moreConcussion Aware
At Headway, we want to ensure that everyone is able to enjoy sport, while being better protected from the risks of concussion.
Find out moreCaring for Carers
The effects of brain injury can be just as devastating for families as it is for individuals. It can change relationships in an instant, turning partners into carers and transforming the lives of enti...
Find out moreCycle safety
We are passionate about promoting safe cycling, while supporting calls to make it safer for people of all ages to take to their bikes and get pedalling.
Find out moreSupporting GPs
Headway has launched a campaign and created an online resource to help doctors to diagnose, manage and refer patients affected by brain injury.
Find out more'Don't cut me out!'
The false economy of funding cuts: Brain injury survivors need help to rebuild their lives, but funding cuts are cutting them out of society.
Find out moreMinor head injury discharge advice
It is vitally important that every A&E department across the UK provides the information recommended by NICE to all head injury patients.
Find out more