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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.

Our residents enjoy working on a crossword together. One of their favourites is the Yorkshire Post crossword puzzle. A couple of weeks ago they decided to tackle the YP giant crossword. We may have bitten off more than we can chew - we’re still working on it!

Crossword Challenge

This morning we tasted a selection of herbs and spices, and discussed their use in food preparation and seasoning.

Herb and Spice Tasting Session

Taylors of Harrogate have kindly donated this wonderful selection of Yorkshire Tea to be one of our raffle prizes for our next Garden Party. Let's hope the weather is as generous.

Raffle Prize Donations

Thank you to Emma from Spa Shop on Lowther Street who donated £200 worth of Easter flowers for our ladies who live in the home. They had such a wonderful surprise when our Manager and Lifestyle Coordinatored dropped by with various boxes and bouquets from you.

Easter Flower Donation

Peggy has had such a wonderful time designing Leaves in the Wind.

Arts and Crafts

We have been making a St George's Day Dragon at the home in April. Peggy did a good job of pretending she was terrified by our clearly ferocious paper mache winged reptile. The residents thoroughly enjoyed putting this together and the fun they had afterwards.

St George's Day Dragon

We celebrated National poetry month in April and our residents have created poetry corner. There was lots of opportunities throughout the month for our residents to select their favourite poems to read and there are a few videos on our Facebook pages. They did such a great job of sele

National Poetry Month

There was lots of Easter activity in the home this year. We started with arts and crafts and making our own bonnets and then on Easter Sunday one of the team dressed up as the Easter bunny and delivered our eggs for us. We had a lovely buffet in the afternoon with some party games with

Easter at Field View

The warmer weather has started to arrive in the North East and our residents have enjoyed a fair few afternoons out in our garden at the home. The gardens at Earsdon Grange are located at the back of the home and are secure with lots of garden furniture for the residents to enjoy. It’s

Afternoons In The Garden

Easter arrived at the home and for Easter Sunday during arts and crafts in the upcoming week our residents created Easter bonnets to wear on Easter Sunday. We think they did a terrific job of them.

Earsdon's Easter Bonnets

Over Easter we made some Easter bonnets at Astor Court and each resident decided on the design they wanted to create and then made the bonnet by using the supplies we had in house. We think they did a terrific job.

Easter Bonnet Creations

Our chef Christine took some time out to help our lifestyle Coordinator and residents to make a fruit cake, we made enough mixture for cupcakes and a huge sponge. There was lots of involvement from our residents and staff, lots of laughs and flour everywhere.

Easter Cake at Astor

In observation of the International Tea Day, we went to the famous Blackpool Tower. Three of our residents spent their afternoon on the Ballroom Hall. Good old days were reminisced when the dancers swayed on the dance floor.

Afternoon Tea at Blackpool Tower Ballroom Hall

Yesterday we did some planting of seeds for the residents to watch grow.

The Ashmead residents received a treat from an entertainer on Friday 22nd April. They enjoyed songs dating from the 50’s through to the 80’s, with the entertainer dressing to match the era of his songs.

Singing at Ashmead

Our Wednesday bingo session was a real hit with everyone, we had lots of the people living with us join in the friendly competition, which everyone really enjoyed.

We would like to wish her Majesty a very Happy and Healthy Birthday.

Thank you for your continuous support and for looking over us.

We will all celebrate this day with you also.

Happy Birthday Your Majesty

Staff from Pinewood visited the children and staff on Robin Ward at Jersey Hospital to donate a selection of Easter eggs

Special Easter Delivery at Jersey Hospital

Many of the people living with us at Pinewood showed off their great creativity for our recent East Bonnet competition.

Easter Bonnett Parade

The meaning of being a mother is virtually endless. A mother is a protector, disciplinarian, and friend. A mother is a selfless and often makes many sacrifices for the wants and needs of her children.

Celebrating Mother's Everywhere

We hope that you all had a wonderful Easter weekend

Easter Celebrations at Wyndham Hall

Congratulations to Angie for winning The Westbourne's Easter raffle prize.

Easter Raffle Prize Winner

These adorable kids came to our home to help us in distributing the Easter eggs for all the residents of Amber Court. They bring such joy to everyone, especially to our lovely residents. They also received chocolates from our residents. Happy Easter everyone!

Amber Court's Easter Helpers

As part of our garden party we had an original Daily Mail copy of the coronation from 1953 and also a copy of the illustrated London news which contains amazing pictures from the Queens life.

Daily Mail From 1953

We celebrated the Queens birthday by Planting a tree for the Queens Green Canopy initiative, created to mark Her Majesty's Platinum jubilee which invites people from across the nation to plant a tree for the jubilee, we chose a flowering Cherry.

Queen's Birthday Celebrations at Troutbeck

Music and movement, a walk in the garden and a game of skittles.

Activities at The Westbourne

Residents and staff were delighted when Roger the Rabbit showed at Ashmead bearing Easter treats including daffodils, Easter eggs and chocolate bars.

Easter at Ashmead

The residents were happy to receive drawings made for them by their local Rainbows.

Every Monday afternoon, we’re taking residents for a walk going to a near parks, gardens, coffee shops or in a near restaurant. But this day we took Wayne to a coffee shop and had a nice cup of tea.

Students from Little Angel Nursery came to say hi to the residents of Amber Court. Margaret (one of our residents) is very happy to receive flowers and biscuits from them. Thank you very much!

LITTLE ANGEL NURSERY STUDENTS CAME TO VISIT

In celebration of Easter, we in Amber Court planned for a fun filled days for residents, staff and relatives. We had a lot of Easter artworks prepared for our residents to show their creativity.

Easter Artworks

We decided to create an Easter wreath in our reception to welcome everyone visiting the home. Everyone is so amazed to see how creative and lovely the wreath is, especially the resident’s relatives.

Our little bunny saying, “Happy Easter Everyone!”.

Well done Team Troutbeck!!

Winners Of The Easter Cake Competition

The people living at Buckingham House really wanted to celebrate the Queens 96th Birthday with some cheese and crackers and of course cake. The team decorated the outside space and people came out to enjoy some glorious weather and nibbles whilst raising a toast.

Happy Birthday to the Queen

Voting is now closed.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit their votes, recognising the incredible work our staff do.

The first round of judging will now take place and the finalists will be announced shortly.

Maria Mallaband and Countrywide Care Awards 2022

We had a very competitive game of Bowls here at The Westbourne

The Easter Chicken gave chocolate to all our residents today.

Easter Chocolates

We have celebrated Easter at Troutbeck with Fun Games, Hymns, Crafts, Music, Hot cross buns, cakes and delicious chocolates.

Easter at Troutbeck

At Troutbeck we celebrated Easter with a Easter Bunny cake made by our lifestyle coordinator coordinator

We have been making the most of the lovely Easter sunshine and enjoyed our gardening. We have had lots of fresh air and smiles all round.

Last week was so much fun at Ashfield Court. We have had the grand national which resulted in one of our residents winning some lovely biscuits! We didn't win the cake competition but we had such fun doing it.

A Week at Ashfield Court

Acorn House are over the moon with the recent Health Watch report which followed after an unannounced visit, care home manager Cherise Homer-Beck said we are so happy with the report feed back and really pleased with some of the kind comments made to the health watch inspectors by staff, visitors

Health Watch Report

River View were really excited and absolutely delighted to recently be able to welcome Boonies Pet Therapy.

Boonies Pet Therapy

The Alzheimer's Society's April challenge is to complete a total of 3,000 squats during the month.

Alzheimer's Society's April Challenge

Taking time to have those special 1-2-1 interactions is invaluable for those living with us.

Butterfly moments

We have decorated the home for Easter and the resident's got involved. We had so much fun!

Easter Decorating

The Hawthorns are getting in the Easter spirit. Today the residents made an Easter Tree. They painted and coloured in small Easter eggs which they then hung on a small branch. This is displayed in our newly decorated lounge to start the celebrations

Easter Spirit at Hawthorns

The people living with us wanted to enjoy a pamper and wanted to have a spa day so we made sure that we created that for them.

Spa Day at Bridge House

The people living at Ashmead wanted to join the Lifestyle Co- Ordinator’s in planning ahead for their Easter Celebrations. Easter baskets and cards have been constructed for colleagues and family members and we are all looking forward to being able to give them out soon.

Easter is coming...

At Ashfield Court we looked over lots of books and shared all the memories of walking that some of the residents had done!

National walking day!