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On a beautiful late summer day we once again returned to the lush shady greens of the spectacular Frilford Green Golf Club for our annual Charity Golf Classic tournament.

11 teams joined us for the 2016 edition of what in just four short years has become a much loved date on our calendar:

Teams from HSBC, Blanchford Building supplies, 2 teams from Royds Withy King the Oxford Business Network and Dighton and Sons the  as well as self styled teams The Porky Pies, Give Me the Keys and The Reprobates captained by Oxford Head Injury Services’s own Patrick Mangan.

Royds Withy King

Vince Page from the the Dighton White Collars won the nearest the pin on the 9th hole prize and Barry Ross from the Oxford Business Network team hit the longest drive of the 15th hole.

The Dighton White Collars

Winner of the Headway Cup and best individual player on the day went to James Joughin from Give Me the Keys, with Russell Porter from the Royds Withy King team coming in second and Jack Roper from The Reprobates in third place.

Golf 2016 Cup winner James Joughin

In the morning the Reprobates and the Dighton Dirt Collars where joint winners of the 9 hole Texas Scramble competition

Mangan’s Reprobates joint winners of the Texas Scramble

The overall best team award was decided over 18 holes in the afternoon and went to HSBC.

Golf 2016 team winner HSBC

All the prizes where given out at the club house restaurant in the evening.

Huge thanks to all the teams and business that played on the day, your continuing support means so much to us.

Blanchford Building Supplies

Massive thanks to everybody at Frilford Heath for again welcoming us to the club and very generously donating a four ball day at the course which we auctioned off at the evening dinner, and a very special thanks to Mandy and her catering team for looking after us so wonderfully.

As always Bob Wilson proved the perfect host for the day and we all relied on the mathematical talents of our master scorer Chris Allen and the wonderful Dee and Joy who gave up their time to help out on the day.

We will let you know how much was raised on the day shortly and we are already looking forward to returning to Frilford in 2017!

As you know from our previous newsletters these are exciting times for Oxford Head Injury Services, our long awaited plans to renovate and upgrade our home in Kennington are now nearing completition. By October our home, the Activity and Rehablitation Centre will be transformed, allowing us to expand and offer new services to our existing service users and carers, as well as increasing our capacity to support even more people affected by brain injury across Oxfordshire.

The new centre will include:

: A new and improved dedicated physiotherapy room

: A fully fitted top of the range kitchen outfitted by our new friends at Smeg Abingdon. The kitchen will allow us to run healthy cooking sessions with our service users.

Our healthy cooking kitchen takes shape

: A sensory room, a restful space for our service users to get away from the sensory overload of daily life.

: Brand new state of the art accessible toilets.

Our shiny new loos are almost ready

:A fresh new look for centre, reception space and new flooring and doors throughout the main building.

The centre is getting a fresh new look

:New reception area and new spaces for our staff, allowing the entire centre to be used for rehabilitation and activities, and dedicated rooms for one on one advice and support sessions with individual service users and their carers.

Our new office space and meeting rooms are nearly completed

All of us at Oxford Head Injury Services are hugely excited about the changes and how they will allow us to evolve, grow and expand our vital work in our community, and we can’t wait to start making the most of our fantastic new home.

And of course your support is as ever vital to us, so rest assured we will keep you updated as we build our future.