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Moving into a care home made easy

Our care team are here to make sure that making the move is as easy as possible for you and your loved one. If you still need reassurance, here are some stories from our residents, their families and our care team.

We had a great reminiscing talk today. The residents were shown some photos of appliances from the past and were asked to identify them. Some were easier than others and after some deliberation they managed to answer them all correctly. How many can you guess correctly?

Reminiscing Talk

Everyone in Amber Court is very excited for Christmas day, that’s why we made a beautiful wreath which was decorated by our lovely residents and staff. Look how lovely it is!

Amber Court's Christmas Wreath

Christmas is getting closer and so during choir practice, we thought it would be a good idea to start practising Christmas Songs. The residents picked their favourites and we all sang, danced and clapped together. This was so much fun all round!

Practicing Christmas Songs

Bonfire night was a huge success recently. People living at Brunel were able to safely watch the home’s firework display held in the garden. Later we settled down in front of the tv with our homemade pizza and a glass of wine to watch displays from around the world.

Bonfire Night at Brunel House

Halloween at Kings Court was a fantastic day, made even more enjoyable by all the people working at the care home dressing up and really getting into the spirit of things.

Halloween at Kings Court

Book club is going from strength to strength and everyone seems to be really interested in the next few chapters to discover what has happened! Our local mobile library have sourced a huge selection of suggested group reading titles and we look forward to reading them in the very near future.

Book Club at Brunel House

We are getting in the Christmas spirit at The Hawthorns.

Christmas Cake Baking

We had a lovely catch up recently with a dear friend. One of our activities team recently moved to Dubai and we called her on Skype. She loved catching up with everyone at The Hawthorns and we were thrilled to bring her up to date with how we are all doing.

We celebrated world nursery rhyme week in style!

World Nursery Rhyme Week

This year Knights Court celebrated Diwali in style! Diwali or Deepavali is one of the biggest and auspicious festivals celebrated by Hindus all around the globe.

Diwali Celebrations

Buckingham House was filled with poppies for Remembrance Day 2021. Everyone who lives with us played their part in remembering those we have lost.

A moving day had by all.

One of our gentlemen paying his respects on Remembrance Sunday.

Remembrance Sunday

A taste testing session this morning for National Bread Day. It went down well with all!

National Bread Day

Today we are celebrating our head chef (Douglas)'s 50th birthday. Happy Birthday from Residents & Staff at Ashfield Court.

Douglas's 50th Birthday

To recognise Remembrance Day, the people living at Woodlands created beautiful poppy decorations which were displayed in the lounge.

World Kindness Day & Remembrance Day

We wanted to recognise Remembrance at Brunel House and we hosted a 1940s day.

Remembrance at Brunel

Two of the favourite events we enjoy at Brunel is the evening pub quiz. Lots of people who live at Brunel like to participate and all enjoy a social chat over a drink once the quiz ended.

Activities at Brunel

In preparation of Remembrance Day, those living with us at Wyndham Hall enjoyed crafting poppies and spending time talking about the different roles they did during the war.

Some more photos of the amazingly spooky ghostly decorations that the people living with us at Wyndham Hall made to celebrate Halloween around our home.

To celebrate Halloween, many of the people living with us at River View decorated pumpkins with spooky faces and coloured in some themed pictures that we displayed across the home for everyone to enjoy.

Halloween Arts & Crafts

Staff at River View Care Home took a moment to quietly remember and pay tribute to all of those who have served in the armed services.

Lest We Forget.

At Knights Court we had our own ‘Spooktacular’ Halloween party with the people living with us along with staff dressing up for the occasion.

Spooktacular Halloween Party

We celebrated Halloween at Knights Court by trying our hand at carving Pumpkins and here is the fruit of our efforts 🎃’

Pumpkin Carving

We had such a fantastic trip to Flowerland in Bourne End last week. Our residents who came on the with us each chose a beautiful pot plant to give to their loved ones. They were amazed at the variety of colours and varieties of plants on display.

Blooming Marvellous

Buckingham House was filled with Halloween antics recently

Goulish Celebrations

Our lovely residents who live with us at Buckingham House were treated to an exciting trip to Fulmer Riding Therapy School. They were introduced to Freddie one of the horses at the school and were taught how to care for him.

Fulmer Riding Therapy School

Our residents loved designing our remembrance day displays, they knitted poppies for the display in reception and coloured and cut out the poppies for our main display in the residents lounge.

Remembrance Day Display

Today is Remembrance Day. Everyone in Amber Court take a moment of time to give honour and respect to all the people who have been part of World War. We’ve done this by taking time of silence, activities and artworks with the residents to commemorate our heroes.

Remembrance Day at Amber Court

Nigel Harmer, maintenance man at Abbey View, was very kind and proud to show us today his beautiful and very mindful medals. Remembrance Day- Lest We Forget

Remembrance Day at Abbey View

Today a group of residents made some dough sculptures. They added scents to them to engage the senses and added parts of leaves and plants to decorate them and to make a link to nature at a time of year when it’s not so easy to get outside.

Dough Sculptures

We had a great afternoon dipping fruit in the chocolate fountain!

Chocolate Tasting

Firework Rockets!! Our lovely residents made some fantastic firework rockets today using a card roll, pipe cleaners, star stickers and a few other resources. They had such a giggle trying to peel and stick the stars down, the quote of the activity was "where's my star gone?

Bonfire Night Arts and Crafts

The lovely people who live at The Hawthorns made some finger print painted poppies which we turned into a field of poppies to remember and honour those who fell whilst defending our freedoms and protecting our way of life. This is pride place when entering the home for everyone to see; staf

Remembrance Day at The Hawthorns

It was a most enjoyable afternoon at Ashmead for Peggy's 100th birthday. In addition to a birthday card from Queen Elizabeth 11 the home’s chef prepared a special birthday cake and staff and fellow residents helped celebrate the occasion by singing happy birthday to Peggy.

100th birthday celebrations at Ashmead

On Sugar Awareness Day, we chatted about sugar and its origin, we then played the game * how many teaspoons of sugar * in a number of food items.

We had a lot of fun as always.

Sugar Awareness Day at Deepdene

What is Halloween without pumpkins? We set to work at Deepdene creating the most fantastic pumpkins. Its was so much fun.

Pumpkin Carving at Deepdene

The recent Halloween party at Deepdene was amazing. The staff team gave everyone living in the home their best Halloween catwalk show. There were prizes for the best dressed ghouls or witches with some well-deserved prizes.

Halloween Fun at Deepdene

New decorations at Abbey View, a lot of red poppies all around so we can commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts,

Remembrance Day at Abbey View

On Bonfire night Guy Fawkes visited all of our residents who thought he was great. He even enjoyed a game of bingo and handed out prizes before he visited people in their rooms.

Visit From Guy Fawkes

This year we held a masquerade ball for Halloween. Residents spent lots of time creating their masks and costumes prior to the day. There was live entertainment from Andy T, we all had an absolute blast.

Masquerade Ball at Brunel

Giving it a little 'Oomph'. Another Oomph wellness class in action!

Getting our 'Oomph' on.

Here at Troutbeck we held a big celebration for Halloween and we were delighted with our Halloween display.

Troutbeck's Halloween Celebrations

Our residents here at Ashfield Court really enjoyed a traditional afternoon tea, there were lots of conversations, cake and bubbles.

Afternoon Tea at Ashfield Court

Trick or Treat was in full swing during Halloween at Ashmead. The Activities team dressed appropriately and toured the whole home offering chocolate and biscuit bars on a specially decorated mobile trolley.

Trick Or Treat at Ashmead

Home cooking at its best! The residents made a fantastic homemade vegetable soup. They prepared all the vegetables, peeling carrots, chopping potatoes, pressing garlic and popping peas. Everyone took their time and the vegetables soon piled up in the cooking pot.

Homemade Vegetable Soup

Everyone loves a pamper day. The people living at The Hawthorns enjoyed a manicure recently, which involved, filing, nail polish and a relaxing hand massage.

Much of the enjoyment comes from the chatting and getting together, just like you would in other salons.

Not only did our residents enjoy preparing for Halloween with pumpkin painting, but our staff did to!

Pumpkin Painting Station

Our Halloween celebrations really were fantastic thanks to the creativity of the people living with us and all of these beautiful masks that were created 🎃👻

Halloween Arts and Crafts

Everyone at Knights Court really enjoyed celebrating the annual MMCG Care awards recently, with our very own Activity Co-ordinator Raj Sheth being nominated in the Most Innovative Activities Programme category.

Celebrating in Style

At Buckingham House the people who live with us enjoys our daily morning exercise sessions. Nothing better than some gentle stretching and seated exercises to get the day off to a great start .

Morning Exercise Session at Buckingham House