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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.

The Easter Bunny made an appearance at Kings Manor over the weekend, he brought all the people living at the home a lovely Easter Egg and much joy as he hopped around. The team at Kings Manor also got involved by dressing up, using hair chalks, and even used their vocals on the karaoke machine.

The people who live at Kings Manor love to make the floral arrangements that are used in our restaurants.

Flowers, Flowers and more Flowers

Spring is well on its way at Kings Manor Care Home, having our own gardener on staff allows for a very hands on approach to the development of the gardens and also to support anyone at the home who has a passion for gardening.

Spring is on its way at Kings Manor Care Home

We are proud to welcome our PURRRFECT pets to Buckingham House. We have introduced some of these lifelike tabby cats for some of our residents to enjoy. The people who have one of the cats are enjoying the lifelike robotic felines who purr their way through the day.

Wyndham Hall laid down the gauntlet to our sister home Abingdon Court to grow the tallest sunflower. Planting started in earnest this week with the staff team joining forces with the people who live at Wyndham. Wish us luck and may the best sunflower win.

Wyndham V Abingdon Sunflower Competition

Buckingham House welcomed back the hairdresser with cheers and lots of smiles as she has been incredibly missed throughout the COVID-19 restrictions. Sometimes its the little things in life that can make a big difference and she definitely is a cut above the rest!

Our Hairdresser Is Back!

St George's Day was celebrated with pride at Buckingham House. A day to celebrate the country's heritage.

St George's Day At Buckingham House

We bought some bubble blowing machines for our residents as part of our ongoing sensory programme. We use them in residents rooms, in lounge areas, outside, as well as parties. Christopher has his own machine for his room and one of his favourite things is to catch the bubbles.

Bubble Machines

For Earth Day the Norwich market came to The Hawthorns, starting with a virtual tour followed by touching and smelling of its local and organic produce. Residents then made suggestions as to what could be cooked with the ingredients and talked about meals they used to make.

Today was St. George's Day , the day we celebrate George slaying a dragon for England! And there's no better way to celebrate than with a party! We listened to music from Vera Lynn, Tommy Steele and The Beatles. Played games like the Cockney Rhyming Slam Game and St. George themed Bingo.

St George's Day

The Westbourne residents and staff celebrated HRH Prince Philip's life with a royal afternoon tea, and watched the service of the funeral. The lounge was decorated with bunting, pictures of Prince Philip and the Royal family.

Paying Respects To Prince Philip

Having an active lifestyle with physical activity and a creative outlet to keep the mind sharp is important as we grow older.

Well done to Lewis Watson, an IT engineer with Maria Mallaband in Leeds, who ran 100 miles over 28 days in February to raise money for St Gemma’s Hospice after they cared for his grandad at home during the final weeks of his life.

IT whizz Lewis raises money for hospice

With the need for social care set to rise and our high-quality well-run homes much in demand, it is our ambition to expand our 5,250-strong family of employees by 20% in 2021.

Recruitment drive – 20% increase in headcount in 2021

MMCG put together parcels for soldiers far from home and their families at Christmas time.

Gifts to show our support for soldiers overseas

We are passionate about providing the highest standards of care for people living in our homes.

Building a team of people who are both confident and competent in their work is a crucial element for achieving this, which is why we chose to embrace the TNA programme.

Training success – news from the Trainee Nursing Associates programme

Work at Windsor Court, our new £8m stateof-the-art care home at Great Malvern is on schedule, set for completion at the end of June.

Construction at new Windsor Court Care Home on schedule

Laptop donations to schools in Leeds by Maria Mallaband HQ

With the news that many children were struggling to access their online home learning during lockdown, we decided to offer our old, repurposed laptops to schools in Leeds, the home of the MMCG HQ.

A homeschool helping hand

Congratulations to Cedar Court Care Home in Cranleigh, Surrey, which ended the year rated ‘Good’ across all areas after a Care Quality Commission inspection in the autumn.

Cedar Court Celebrates

We had a game of skittles today. The residents used great strength and aim to knock the skittles. They soon became a little competitive and had good sportsmanship. They played for nearly an hour and really enjoyed it.

Theresa was overjoyed at the numerous cards, flowers and gifts she received from family and friends which made her birthday so special. The beautiful ombre birthday cake made by our very talented Head Chef Sam was just the icing on the cake, so to speak, as the celebrations lasted all day.&

Birthday Celebrations at Wyndham House

We celebrated 80 years of service today with our 5 domestic staff here at Willowbank who collectively have worked nearly 80 years between them. We enjoyed afternoon tea in the garden hosted by our home manager Angela Galloway and deputy Hillary.

80 Years Of Service

We might not be getting out and about or having as many visitors as usual but it's still busy at Princess Lodge. Pam continues to enjoy her weekly manicure whilst friends like to get together to socialise over a jigsaw.

We started Easter preparations early to ensure we were able to make all of our own Easter cards. It was a busy time but spurred on by tea and cake, Cynthia and Pamela did a fantastic job.

Easter Preparations

Keeping busy is second nature at Riverview. The activities program is varied to ensure there is something for everyone.

Activities at Riverview

At Riverview the amazing local community continues to support us all. Just when you're thinking that you could do with a snack and a cup of tea these fabulous gifts arrive at the front door. They went down a treat so thank you to the thoughtful person/people who sent this lovely gift.

Supporting The Community

Today we enjoyed some fresh berries and talked about fond memories of picking berries when they were younger. They talked about sneakily eating berries when they were meant to collect a whole basket full, and what they made with the berries once they were picked.

All residents and staff were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Prince Phillip. The residents were keen to share their stories and condolences by writing letters to the Royal Family.

As the recent Spring weather has been so sunny and mild the people who live and work at Brunel House have been making the most of the beautiful sheltered gardens. Louisa, one of our lovely hostess team took a stroll with Roy and John.

Enjoying The Garden

At Brunel House we are continuing to our trips to the local area, keeping to Covid restrictions. Our last trip was to Quarry Hill. It was a beautiful clear spring day and the views of the famous Box tunnel were stunning. We are extremely lucky to have this on our doorstep.

The residents have loved being able to get out in the garden with the lovely weather lately. One resident in particular has thoroughly enjoyed helping the staff with planting new flowers and placement of the planters. It's so good to see the residents outside enjoying the garden.

We always enjoy supporting our local hospice, KEMP, who partnered with Wildjac Home Grown Distillery, based in the Wyre Forest to being a fantastic gin tasting experience to the homes of many.

KEMP Hospice gin tasting, in partnership with Wildjac Home Grown Distillery

Those living at The Wharf Care Home have been enjoying the sunshine, planting sunflowers. Whose will grow the tallest is going to get very competitive whilst all good fun!. For those not outside we took the sunflowers to them. Sunflowers bringing happiness inside and out.

Sunshine sunflowers

Happy Easter from all of us at The Wharf Care Home!

With our new digital TV's and their finest voices the residents took to singing some of their favourite tunes. It was fantastic to have so many join in and applaud each other after their renditions.

We'll Meet Again

Today the residents created some beautiful bouquets doing some flower arranging. They picked which vase they wanted to use first, then selected which flowers to use. Some residents used scissors to cut the stems and others asked for help.

Flower Arranging

Our residents enjoyed a game of scrabble. We have some very good players, the highest score on our last game was 144. We also enjoy arts and crafts, displaying our works along the corridors.

Woodland's Activities

Dominoes is a suitable game the elderly and adults with learning disabilities can play and thoroughly enjoy. Dominoes can also be used for simple matching and sorting activities for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s and is a great way to boost ones wo

We talked about 5 things today to help promote positive well being. I asked the residents to name the following: something that makes you happy, something that makes you smile, something that you like to do, something that makes you laugh and something that makes you feel safe.

Promote Positive Well Being

Spring has sprung at Kings Court and residents have been having fun making daffodils as part of the regular arts and craft session.

Daffodil Making

The festival of Holi was celebrated at Kings Court recently. The dining room was decorated with lots of artwork made by the people who live at Kings Court. The staff team dressed in traditional dress and brought a variety of Indian foods for tasting. There was lots of Holi music and dancing.

Holi Hindu Festival

Work has begun on the herb and vegetable patch for Princess Lodge. It's still early days but there is plenty of potting and planting happening. Tomatoes, courgettes, and cucumber are the first selection of vegetables to be planted with more to come.

Spring Planting

This week we had a go at making muffins! To make it a little easier we used these 'ready to go' mixes in a bottle and just added the butter, egg and milk. Our lovely chef then baked them for us. Unfortunately the end results didn't last long enough to get pictures of...

Music and games in the garden. It was a beautiful day, the sun shining bright and a very enjoyable game of card bingo! Kate, Terry and Mary laughed the whole afternoon. Harry in the meantime had a little visitor come to see him whilst he was reading his daily newspaper. This made us all smile.

A Day In The Garden

We’re so pleased to see the new team at Windsor Court is already getting involved with the community, even months ahead of the opening of this brand new

Getting neigh-bourly with Pickles the Pony

We had a lovely afternoon in Granby this week playing a variety of board games!

It encourages socialisation between staff and residents, as well as between residents who may not know each other very well.

This week we finished off our personality tree that is now being displayed in the memory Cafe in Rutland! Residents and staff worked together to create this bright and colourful display!

Personality Tree

We had a great time making vintage cookies and choosing our toppings this morning, here at The Hawthorns. We also had a look at our Mary Berry cookbooks and some of her great creations. This afternoon we ate our cookies with everyone satisfied with their efforts.

Vintage Cookies

We have great plans for our garden this spring at The Moors! The residents had great fun creating this dream board of what we would like in our garden and then getting stuck in! We've been clearing and re-potting, planting and weeding.

The Moors Garden

The Moors was overrun by Leprechauns this St Patrick's Day! The residents had great fun dressing up and Leprechaun hunting in the garden - as well as having a laugh at our staff members all dressed up and doing special St Patrick's Day word searches and crosswords.

St Patrick's Day at The Moors