{"id":22915,"date":"2019-02-19T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22915"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:44:00","slug":"cuts-to-head-injury-support-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cuts-to-head-injury-support-in-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts to head injury support in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Cardiff charity is going to have to cut the support it provides to people with serious head injuries.<!--more--><\/strong><br \/>\nHeadway is based in Rookwood Hospital in Llandaff. It provides support for people with head injuries to help them become independent and relearn basic skills.<br \/>\nThe charity applied for lottery funding this year but they were unsuccessful. This means they&#8217;re going to have to cut back some of their services.<br \/>\nKathryn Jones is the head of fundraising. She said &#8220;We&#8217;ve been really fortunate for the past three years to have big lottery funding . . . unfortunately it&#8217;s come to an end, we did reapply but it&#8217;s such a competitive process that we were unsuccessful this time&#8221;<br \/>\nThe charity have had \u00a3300,000 of\u00a0 lottery funding for the last three years. The loss of funding means that they&#8217;ve had to stop helping people with benefit claims.<br \/>\nRebecca Pearce is the charity&#8217;s CEO and she&#8217;s concerned about people with head injuries struggling in the benefit system.<br \/>\n&#8220;They have to justify and explain their disability and the kind of emotional and mental health impact of that is huge. People really do feel like they&#8217;re on trial and when you&#8217;ve already had something as horrific happen to you as a brain injury, you don&#8217;t want the trauma of that.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe charity gets very little government or council funding so they rely on grants and donations to fund their work.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve put out a plea for support on social media and they&#8217;ve set up an official donations page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardiff charity is going to have to cut the support it provides to people with serious head injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,18],"tags":[4,435],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-slider-story","tag-charity","tag-rookwood-hospital"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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