About Us

The Journey began in 1999 to share our passion for an inclusive way of working with people with brain injury and disability and to pass on what we have learnt about building capacities within individuals and organisations. Our founders and principle facilitators, Sandy Batten and Melanie Atkins, each have over 20 years experience working alongside individuals and families living with a range of difficulties, particularly brain injury. The Journey has grown from this experience and what we have learnt about the challenges people with brain injury face when participating in community life.

The Journey is a not for profit organisation with a committee of management providing governance. Those involved are committed to the leading image and values of The Journey and all available resources are reinvested to enable the organisation to fulfil its leading image. For profiles of our facilitators and committee members go to Who We Are

The Journey promotes the inclusion of all members of the community. We believe that every person can and should be a valued, contributing member of their community, if that is their desire. We provide training, education, information development and project work to organisations and individuals with a focus on working with people with brain injury and developing attitudes that encourage inclusion. For more details about the way we work go to Our Approach

The Journey can assist you or your organisation by providing training, education and development for workers, family members and friends to develop skills for and knowledge about working with people with Brain Injury. Our presentations are based on our extensive experience of providing services to people living with disabilities. We are able to develop, manage, and deliver projects that build on existing strengths within your group or organisation through our commitment to a collaborative and creative approach. We aim to promote our vision of a world where every person is valued and included. For more information about The Journey's services go to What We Offer

The Journey has developed and implemented diverse educational tools, presented a range of educational sessions and managed many types of projects. Our principle facilitators, Sandy and Melanie, have previously been involved in organisational development and managed an organisation that employed over 4000 staff and worked with over 1200 people with disabilities. For more about work we have previously done go to Past Achievements