£5,000 gift aids brain injuries project

Second Chance Headway, based in Wakefield, has thanked the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Legal Society for a donation of £5,000 towards the project.

The charity is the only full-time centre for adults with acquired brain injuries in Yorkshire. It works with adults who have sustained head injuries in road crashes and other incidents.

The donation means the charity can expand the allotment project, which builds clients’ self-esteem to help improve their lives away from the centre.

Funds were raised at the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Legal Society Ball.

The director of Second Chance Headway Centre, Jane Horton, who is head of the Serious Injury Team at Irwin Mitchell solicitors in Leeds, said: “As a director of the charity but also as a solicitor who represents clients who have suffered life-changing brain injuries, I am delighted that Second Chance Headway will benefit from the fundraising.

“The aims and objectives of Second Chance Headway have a real relevance to members of the Society and it is great that they have been able to provide this substantial sum to further the aims of the charity.”

Barrister Andrew Axon at Park Lane Plowden Chambers in Leeds, president of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Legal Society said: “Second Chance Headway in Wakefield provides fantastic support and activities both at their Almshouse Lane base but also through outside activities, in particular the allotment project.”

The director of services at the charity, Peter Morse, said: “The allotment project has proved so popular we are in the process of looking for a larger allotment space and the donation from the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Legal Society has given us the opportunity to fund this.”