The Leading Edge - The Silverlining Brain Injury Charity

Lighting up lives

In the UK, every 90 seconds someone is admitted to hospital with an acquired brain injury. Brain injuries have the potential to impact every aspect of life, irrespective of age, culture or social strata, and due to the complexities of the brain, every injury and recovery is unique.

The impacts of brain injury are not limited to an individual. The effects are also felt by friends, family members, work colleagues, professionals and the wider community. The Silverlining Charity helps to rebuild and support the lives of all those affected by and living with brain injury. It helps to encourage a social support network for the injured, their family members, and the wider community while supporting projects to promote purpose and a sense of direction to a very skilled group of individuals.

Our charity offers adult brain injury survivors unique opportunities to rebuild their lives through meaningful social events and opportunities. Membership is open to all abilities at absolutely no cost. We currently work with upwards of 500 brain injury survivors and family members in eight regions across England and Wales.

Our Namibia Mission along with our activities and adventures are opportunities for our members to come together for friendship, growth, goal setting and, most of all, fun! Facilitated by clinicians, all our initiatives are open to all our members and accessible.

We believe strength comes from bringing groups together to give connection and widen our members’ self-confidence, ability to engage with their local community in charitable projects and step out of their comfort zone, safely. Trips like our Namibia Mission support those less fortunate and, in the process, grow and develop our members themselves. This comes by the team living and camping in the desert, working in a rural school completing maintenance, painting and holding lessons they have designed in addition to exploring the wildlife and the local area. An important part of this initiative is that all attendees must fundraise to cover the costs of their trip.

You can read an account from one of the therapists who accompanied our members on the previous mission at https://www.thesilverlining.org.uk/namibia-therapy/

The Silverlining Charity relies entirely on donations and good old-fashioned fundraising by our members and likeminded supporters. We are enormously grateful to the wonderful people who take the time to raise money which facilitates our activities and groups. Feel free to set up fundraising initiative https://uk.virginmoneygiving. com/giving/

Check out our website thesilverlining.org.uk or follow us on social media at Facebook: @TheSilverliningCharity or Twitter: @SilverTweeters

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