Hello to everyone. I’m a solicitor specialising in brain injury here in the London Office. I will be contributing to the blog regularly keeping you all up to date with our activities.

Here at Irwin Mitchell we are very lucky to be involved with many very worthwhile charities. One of those charities is Headway – the brain injury organisation. Headway is a remarkable charity supporting and assisting people with brain injury and their families both nationally by campaigning for better services for people with brain injury and through local meeting groups all over the country.

Here in London there are 6 Headway groups offering services including day centres, therapies such as occupational therapy, carer support, social re-integration and community outreach to name but a few. Obviously to enable these crucial services to continue fundraising is extremely important.

It is for this reason that recently 8 dancing queens from our London office donned fluorescent vests, leg warmers and sweat bands and took part in East London Headway’s 8 Hour Dance Marathon(!). East London Headway are a very active local group providing a hub for the community offering a wide range of services such as counselling, physiotherapy, art/music therapy and complementary therapies. With the efforts of our dancing queens and lots of other enthusiastic ‘shimmiers’ Headway managed to raise £15,000 for their ongoing projects. There is even photographic evidence of the dancer’s efforts. A good time had by all and money raised a fantastic charity at the same time!