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Navigating Personal Independence Payment with a neurological condition? Watch our new video!

Watch our video on applying for PIP here and then read on for more information about PIP and how The Brain Charity can support you. 
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Category: Advice

Published: 27 January 2025

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Professor Gus Baker Appointed Chair of Trustees at The Brain Charity

Meet The Brain Charity's new Chair of Trustees

Category: Advice

Published: 21 January 2025

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A man and a woman sitting in the countryside. They are looking at each other and smiling 3rd Feb Social

Premiere of Ruby Colley’s Hello Halo

Hello Halo: A ground-breaking musical premiere. 8pm show.

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A new age kurling mat with pucks in play 30th Jan Gym

New age kurling

Kurling is another of our fully accessible activities at The Brain Charity.

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A drawing of people sitting and socialising 29th Jan Support groups

Aphasia talking table

Talking with a supportive, small group can be really beneficial for issues with aphasia, whatever the cause.

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The Brain Charity’s Neurodiversity Arts Festival 2024: a celebration of inclusivity

Hundreds of people attended dozens of events happening over 10 days

Category: Events

Published: 31 October 2024

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The Brain Charity’s Neurodiversity Arts Festival launches

This pioneering event will be the first of its kind in the north west

Category: Events

Published: 20 September 2024

Neurodiversity Arts festival logo NDAF 2024

The Liverpool Neurodiversity Arts Festival

A festival of beautiful thinking

Category: Events

Published: 12 July 2024

An audience with the number thirty made from baloons behind them

Happy Birthday to us! 

Thirty years of compassion and community at The Brain Charity's annual celebration

Category: Events

Published: 15 December 2023

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A night at the Circus 

We take a look back at The Brain Charity's Night at the Electro Circus event

Category: Events

Published: 14 December 2023

The Brain Charity choir performing in St Francis Xavier Church, Liverpool

The Brain Charity’s annual carol concert 2023

Relive the magic of a very special evening with us

Category: Events

Published: 14 December 2023

The signage on the front of Third Man Records in London, reading Third Man Records

The Brain Charity takes Neurovision to London

Third Man London in Soho hosted the final of our for neurodivergent musicians

Category: Events

Published: 21 September 2023

A line drawing of the Liver Building with colourful painted clouds. Liverpool Poetry Prize celebrating neurodiversity

Meet the winners of the Liverpool Poetry Prize 2023

They were chosen by Brian Patten, one of Liverpool’s original Beat Poets

Category: Events

Published: 20 July 2023

A line drawing of the Liver Building with colourful painted clouds. Liverpool Poetry Prize celebrating neurodiversity

Liverpool Poetry Prize returns for 2023: £1,000 top prize up for grabs

The Liverpool Poetry Prize - celebrating neurodiversity and judged by Brian Patten - is back

Category: Events

Published: 30 January 2023

A mixed gender walking football team

Walking football: Why this slower-paced version of the beautiful game is no less enjoyable

Walking football is good for you - the LCFA explains why

Category: Events

Published: 1 March 2022

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