17/12/2025
Next Steps Christmas End of Year Get Together
Last Tuesday we held our final Next Steps group session of the year, celebrating with some festive food and fun to mark the end of another brilliant year together.
The Next Steps group is an NHS-run traumatic brain injury group who attend weekly sessions at the Foundation as part of their recovery journey. Throughout the year, members take part in a range of meaningful activities including gardening, woodworking, nature-based crafts, and cooking with produce grown right here at the Foundation.
A big focus for the group has been preparing beautiful handmade items for our Foundation Christmas Fayre, including handcrafted garlands, tree decorations and wooden Christmas trees. Group members also played a huge part on the day itself — helping on the stall and proudly selling the items they created, with the support of the Better Tomorrow team and NHS staff.
To say thank you, we held a small festive get-together last week. Group members Chris, Michelle and Amanda helped prepare a lovely buffet for everyone, including homemade sausage rolls, turkey sandwiches, a Christmas quiz and plenty of sweet treats. It was a really special way to thank both the group and the NHS staff who support them each week.
A huge thank you to all the members of the Next Steps group and the amazing staff who support them. We hope you all enjoy a well-deserved break over Christmas, and we look forward to seeing you again in the New Year!
Still Christmas shopping?
We still have some wonderful handmade items available in reception at the John Burns Foundation — handcrafted Christmas tree decorations from £1 and beautiful wooden Christmas trees from £10.
All proceeds go directly back into the work of the Foundation.
