Severely disabled people who rely on a day centre could soon find themselves with nowhere to go, writes Victoria Owen.

Headway, part of the National Brain Injury Association, wants a new site to base its two-day-a-week service.

It is using rooms at the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre, Abingdon Road, Oxford, which will be relocated to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre when it is redeveloped.

But the hospital, on Windmill Road, Headington, is not suitable for Headway, which runs mainly on donations and is used by around 25 people.

Most of the clients have been in severe accidents which often leave them wheelchair-bound.

Secretary Vivienne Taylor said: "Unfortunately, we need a lot of parking because of the nature of our clients and the NOC will not be adequate for our needs.

"Also, the new buildings are not spacious enough and we would have to pay quite high rents, like other charities moving up there."

Mrs Taylor and her colleagues were looking for a place where patients could have a games room, art classes and other pastimes.

NOC site development project manager David Swarbrick said the new buildings were purpose-built.

He said: "Headway is basically a private day centre for people with head injuries and there seems to be a view from professionals that the services they give are better provided in a community situation and not at a hospital site."