Our stories

We would all like to say a huge welcome to Simona, our new nurse completed her probation today. Another successful addition to Kingsbury team.

This morning our residents made fat balls with bird seed and nuts and mixed it up with lard to make bird feeders for our gardens. Later we took the fat balls outside to put in the bird feeders.

Every Wednesday we have our happy hour where there is a choice of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks offered to all of our residents.  
 

The people living at Brunel wanted to have a wine and cheese tasting evening.  The lifestyle team were only too happy to create a platters with a range of cheeses from Mild cheddar to the stronger cheeses like Stilton.

As we have an adverse weather warning the heat is getting to many of us, however we remain positive and continue to smile. Keep a thought to the people working in heat.

There are things you can do to help:

1. Keep curtains closed and lights off when possible,

We had so much fun designing and trying the games out for our Summer Fayre in August.  Making sure they all worked as we planned and giving us lots of practice before the summer fayre.  We hope it will be lovely weather for us to raise some money for a good cause.

We had a very special birthday in July when Mary celebrated her 90th birthday with us.  As always we had cake’s and a singsong and made the day as special as possible for Mary.  She had such a lovely day celebrating with the residents before a visit with her family.

Our first trip out since covid, we used the local bus services, and went to the cinema, we watched Elvis. There was lots of dancing and a few tears, an amazing film but very sad indeed.  Our residents loved it and we are already planning for more trips out.

We celebrated National Sister’s Day in August and organised an arts and craft session to show our sisters that we love them here at Willowbank.  We all made cards for the residents in the home and wrote them a little message which we popped into an envelope ready for Sisters Day on 7th Augus

We have enjoyed delivering an assortment of puzzles and games this afternoon to Amy Senior who is the Community Fundraiser for Dementia Forward in North Yorkshire.

What a fantastic time we have had with the residents and staff preparing for The Famous Jersey Battle of Flowers .

Lots of hard work but what incredible results.

Well done to everyone involved and especially our Lifestyle Co-ordinator, Ioana for her brilliant creativity

Its not everyday that you get to celebrate a Platinum wedding anniversary, 70 years being married is such an achievement.  Living at the home, the couple wanted to celebrate the day with their friends and family so we created a space for them to enjoy the special day together.

People living with us love the outdoors and so we got out playing table top games outside in the sunshine and enjoyed some refreshments.

Belvoir Vale Choir practice is such a lovely time of singing and laughter, even our residents are giving the guitar a go! Watch out for our concert in September.  We are building a choir at Belvoir Vale that sing well known favourite old time songs.

At our Gardening Club this week , we decided to do some weeding and put some new plants in.  The people living with us wanted more colour in the garden and so today we did just that.

Some of the people living with us at Brunel enjoyed a flower arranging session recently. As well as buying some really colourful pretty flowers for the activity, we also picked some from our own gardens .

We had a fantastic entertainer in to Buckingham House who got all the people living with us singing along with him.  He sang a great range of songs for us all that even got some people dancing, it was a great afternoon.

We were delighted to welcome Molly from The Alzheimer's Society Research to collect a cheque from everyone at The Hawthorns.  We raised £400 from an Easter Raffle and a Spring Fate that we held recently.