AN OXFORDSHIRE charity which provides support and therapy for people who have suffered brain injuries is to be made homeless.

Headway Thames Valley must leave its current home, at Townlands Hospital, in Henley, by January 2008, when the hospital is to be redeveloped.

Brian Pyle, the charity's project manager, said staff had been looking for a new home since they first found out about the move a year ago. He said: "We have been knocking on a lot of doors of various PCTs and councils and as yet we have nothing concrete.

"Because we have only a year to go, it's becoming a little bit worrying.

"If we don't have a new building the people who we support and provide services to will have nowhere to go because there is no-one else doing what we do."

The centre run by Headway Thames Valley, which has been going for 18 years, helps people with brain injuries recover through rehabilitation therapies - such as physiotherapy, music, movement and art therapy.

The effect of brain injuries can range from the physical, leaving patients confined to a wheelchair, to short-term memory loss and the inability to make executive decisions.