Be a Mad Hatter for Headway!

Saturday 17 May 2014

Islanders are being encouraged to wear, make or even bake a hat and help support 120 people living in Jersey with brain injuries

It’s Hats4Headway Day on Friday 23 May and the charity wants everyone across the Island to put a hat on and get involved in their fundraiser.

And if you can’t think of ways to get people to dig deep, here’s a ‘hat trick’ of ideas the charity have come up with to help you get started: 

• You could get sponsored to wear a funny hat all day;

• Host a hat relay and swap hats every hour;

• Or organize a hat-themed cake sale.

The charity wants to see your create your own hat and there are prizes on offer in their competition for the most fun piece of headwear or hat-themed cake.

Once your creation is complete the charity want you to upload it on to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with #headwayjersey.

Or you can simply add Headway Jersey on Facebook and link your photo to their page.

There is an extra point on offer if you manage to get snapped in your hat with the Storm Troopers and add #stormtoopersjersey. The Star Wars characters will be stationed at Bean Around the World coffee shop in Hallkett Street.

This year’s Action for Brain Injury Awareness Week, which runs from 19 - 25 May, is keen to highlight how you can reduce the risk of brain injury and the best creations will win a cycle helmet so that the winners can protect themselves on the Island’s roads.

Headway Jersey helps provide support, information & rehabilitation services for Islanders affected by brain injury and their families from its Centre at La Coie which is open five days a week.

The charity also runs a minibus service to help its members get out and about.