Ask your MP to become a Headway Parliamentary Champion

Parliamentary Champions are MPs and other parliamentarians dedicated to working with Headway to raise awareness of brain injury. They also advocate for policy and legislative changes to improve life for people living with acquired brain injury.

If your Member of Parliament isn’t already one, please consider asking them to become a Headway Champion!

Email your MP

You can write to your MP asking them to become a Headway Parliamentary Champion. Feel free to use the below text as the basis for emailing your MP.

Subject line: Speak up for brain injury survivors by becoming a Headway Parliamentary Champion

Dear [MP’s name here],

I am writing as your constituent asking you to meet with Headway – the brain injury association, and for you to become a Headway Parliamentary Champion.

[Insert any connection to brain injury you have – whether as a survivor yourself, a carer, or a loved one of a survivor]

Headway UK provides services to brain injury survivors, including a free, confidential helpline service, the Brain Injury Identity Card scheme, an emergency fund for loved ones to visit survivors in acute care following a brain injury diagnosis, and Headway’s justice programme. Local Headway charities and volunteer-led branches provide support across the country with services including brain injury rehabilitation programmes, carer support, social re-integration, community outreach and respite care.

Parliamentary Champions work with Headway to represent brain injury survivors to increase understanding of brain injury and campaign for policy and legislative change to make the country a better place for those living with acquired brain injury.

You can read Headway’s manifesto from the most recent General Election here. Headway wants to see:

1.    An end to the neurorehabilitation postcode lottery.

2.    Investment in local brain injury reablement services.

3.    Increased awareness of acquired brain injury.

4.    Enhanced support for brain injury survivors.

5.    Equitable and sustainable social care.

Please meet with Headway’s Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Richard Wood (richard.wood@headway.org.uk), to learn more about Headway and to become a Parliamentary Champion.

I look forward to hearing your response.

Best wishes,

[NAME]

[ADDRESS]

[POSTCODE]

How to contact your MP:

  • Use this tool to find your MP by typing in their postcode.
  • Address a blank email to the MP’s email address.
  • Copy the text above into the email.
  • Add in the MP’s details.
  • Add in your personal details (including postcode so they know you live in their constituency).
  • Include any personal details of your connection to brain injury if you feel comfortable sharing.
  • Hit send!

Email your MSP, MS or MLA

If you live in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, please note that many areas relevant to the work of Headway fall under the responsibility of the devolved parliaments and assemblies respectively. You can also write to them to ask them to join the Headway Parliamentary Champion scheme.

If you live in Scotland, find your local MSPs here.

If you live in Wales, find your local MS here.

If you live in Northern Ireland, find your local MLA here.