‘Our goal is to help survivors with social isolation': South Manchester brain injury centre celebrates 20th anniversary

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A brain injury centre in south Manchester described as being a ‘hidden gem in the sector’ celebrates 20 years since it launched this month.

Head Forward Centre in Withington opened its doors in March 2000 as a place where men and women who have suffered a brain injury can go to resume their social life.

In the last year alone, the centre had a record-breaking 866 attendances. “One of the main consequences of a brain injury in the long term is social isolation,” said Martin Casassus, Programme Director at the centre. “Brain injury survivors often refer to social difficulties because they look as anybody else, but they cannot do the things they used to do or they cannot answer and behave in the way others expect from them. “This results in a