M&S Talke Outlet

Headway North Staffordshire offers rehabilitation and respite facilities for people with brain injury. We help people with acquired, traumatic, and stroke related brain injury. We also support families and carers through difficult times. Throughout the week, over 100 clients access our services. Headway is a vibrant meeting place with facilities for improving mobility, domestic , educational and social skills. Our gym and physiotherapy services encourage healthy life styles and promote good mental health. We wish to update our computer suite and add more machines and equipment. This will be brilliant, because more of our clients will be able to use the computers at the same time. We will incorporate adaptive technology so people of all abilities have the same opportunity to become IT literate. After all, being IT literate is a real necessity in this digital age. Thank you for your support - together, we will make these plans a reality!

Our vision is to grow an abundant Fegg Hayes and surrounding area, growing a community of participants, not recipients. The majority of this work takes place at the Hub@ST6, a community facility opened in 2016, which we run. Many of the activities happening in the Hub are run by us, either alone or in partnership with other organisations and some by other organisations and community groups. The activities we run include parent and toddlers, bingo and lunch clubs, craft sessions, youth activities and holiday activities for children and families. We also host a range of other activities including dance classes, Mums support group and martial arts group. The Hub is used for celebrations like birthday parties and baby showers and we even have the local PCSOs using the building as a base when they are in the community. In an average week we have around 400 people using the Hub. During the pandemic we stepped up to lead the local community support team, where many people from across the area came together to support their community in various ways, including with shopping, dog walking, prescription collection and food parcels.

Midlands Air Ambulance is the charity responsible for funding and operating three air ambulances serving the communities of six Midlands counties: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands. We were delighted to work with M&S Stafford for Charity of the Year 2015/16. We still need support to help operate our crucial ambulance services. If you would like to get involved, please get in touch!