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To the activities team,

Thank you so very much for all your care. The Skype calls were precious. We know Dad enjoyed the activities you all provided. Pedro, you are amazing.

Kind Regards, J&M

Thank You Cards

At Brunel House we are very lucky to now have 2 pianos for the people living with us to enjoy.

Tinkling the Ivories

Thursday has become our regular out and about excursion day, which allows us to once again make great use of the Brunel House minibus.

Fish & Chips with a View

International Nurses Day at Abingdon Court

Here at Abingdon Court, we would be lost without our nurses who keep the building alive – from the amazing team who work tirelessly throughout our home, making sure all who live here are happy and healthy, to our home managers who have dedicated their lives to nursing before tak

International Nurses Day at Eltandia Hall

Eltandia Hall celebrated International Nurses Day with an afternoon of celebrations in recognition of all our nurses.

Arts & Crafts at Brunel House

We’ve been getting creative here at Brunel House Care Home using lots of different mediums; Mary has been making cards using brightly coloured shapes, Jen creating magic watercolour art and Veronica has been colouring in place mats for

VE Day Celebrations at Windmill Court

Residents at Windmill Court celebrated VE Day with a street party themed lunch, enjoying their favourite choice of lunch - beef burger, chips and a glass of wine!

We had a lovely morning of crafts this morning. The wonderful books were donated by Funnybones Books, which is a company run by one of our residents daughters. She held a fundraising event and purchased the books to donate to the home. Thank you so much, we all loved them.

Donated Books

To all staff at Bowerfield Court, thank you for the wonderful care.

A Thank You To The Home

It is well known the incredible effect that the ocean has on our well-being - the sight, the sound, the smell.

It may not have been the brightest day, but it truly was a joy for those living at Kings Manor to venture out of the home and take a trip down to Sidmouth.

Sidmouth Ahoy

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.

Happy Easter

Flowers, Flowers and more Flowers

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

Spring is on its way at Kings Manor Care Home

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.

Thank You From A Relative

Dear Danielle and the team at Carmel Lodge, I wanted to thank you for all the wonderful care you gave to my dad during the almost 12 months he spent with you. Dad always told me he was well looked after and that I was not to worry about home.

What a fab day to end the week we have had at Bowerfield House, we have all not stopped laughing and smiling all day. We have celebrated St George's Day and Geoffrey and Eileen's 61st wedding anniversary, they enjoyed a lovely lunch together.

St George's Day

Kents Hill getting involved with its community

Kents Hill Care Home in Milton Keynes has been reaching out and making a difference to both young people and older people in the local community.

The BIG 786Miles for ARUK

The Big Challenge was completed with miles left to spare at Kents Hill Care Home last week.

The residents, staff, relatives and local community all came together to reach the target of 786miles for Alzheimer's Research.

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

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.

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!

Happy Easter

A big thank you from the team at Hope Green for the lovely Easter treats to say thank you for looking after their loved ones. These treats were thoroughly enjoyed by the team whilst on shift over the Easter weekend!

Easter Treats

Do you like our colourful photobooth frame which we have made during our arts and crafts morning? We had fun taking selfies with one another which we shared with some of our relatives.

Photobooth

Easter Cards and Keyrings

Easter cards and keyrings all ready to send to families. Residents enjoyed writing a personal message to their families and helping to make the keyrings with their photo inside.

Dear Rachel,

We celebrated Mothers Day with lots of flowers, chocolates and afternoon tea here at Troutbeck.

Mother's Day at Troutbeck

Mary celebrated her 100th birthday, she had a lovely day with a long awaited visit from her sister.

Mary's 100th Birthday

Thank you for the chocolates which were kindly bought by a resident's family as a token of appreciation for looking after their mum. Your mum was a pleasure to look after and the chocolates will be enjoyed by all the staff here at Hope Green.

Chocolates

Thank you so much for the Easter eggs which were bought for our wonderful team here at Hope Green as a thank you from a family for looking after their father during their stay here at Hope Green. As a team, we appreciate this kind gesture, and we will all enjoy eating our Easter egg!

Easter Egg Gift

Mother's Day at Astor Court

We have celebrated Mothers/Mams/Mums with lots of conversations, some brought laughter and others tears, but it was so lovely to be able to provoke such good memories of our mums, those special ladies who made our childhood great.

Some of our ladies joined a virtual coffee morning and thoroughly enjoyed seeing and listening/speaking to other people outside of our home. What a lovely way to connect with the community!

Virtual Coffee Morning

Mother's Day at Allingham

Mother's Day was a very special day at Allingham House , the residents could speak with their families by phones and videocalls meanwhile received cards and presents from them.

Mothering Sunday at Manorhey was lovely, we enjoyed an afternoon tea with cakes, sandwiches and scones with cream and jam and tea served in china. All mums here and including Grandmas received beautiful cards, gifts and flowers which really did make their day special.

Mother's Day at Manorhey

Mother's Day Celebrations

Mother's Day was an absolute delight for our 'Mums' here at Wyndham Hall, flowers and cards galore and our residents loved every minute of the day.

Bowerfield House held a Mother's Day raffle between staff, residents and relatives to bring some cheers this Mother's Day. Sarah won our first prize and Megan won the second prize.

Mother's Day Raffle

The Wharf team have introduced 'Jelly Drops' into our home much to our residents delight. They have gone down an absolute treat, they've definitely got the thumbs up. Jelly Drops are a unique hydration product developed to boost daily fluid intake.

Jelly Drops

Mrs Doreen Gordon 100th Birthday

Celebrating The Wharf Care Home resident Doreen Gordon reaching the incredible milestone of her 100th birthday!.

Here at Hope Green we love to celebrate everyone's birthday. We like to ask everyone to choose what they would like to do for their big day.

Birthday's At Hope Green

Valentine's Day Skype Calls

Happy times at Hope Green as our residents have regular Skype calls with their loved ones. This ladies was extra special as it was Valentine's Day.

Happy Birthday Pam!

Our wonderful Kitchen Assistant Lisa loves making cakes for the residents birthday.

Happy Birthday

We celebrated Valentine's Day with chocolates! All the residents received some chocolates and we all talked about what love meant to us from a warm fuzzy feeling inside to being warmed and cared for!

We all decided we love our families and miss them very much.

Valentine's Day

Images from our Chinese New Year 2021 year of the Metal Ox.

Chinese New Year Part 2

Both residents helped with our Valentines Celebrations, we decorated some vases and re-arranged our table decorations with some new red roses.

Valentine's Day

Residents and Staff at Kents Hill Care Home are very grateful to the local Tesco at Kingston; Milton Keynes for their deliveries. Helen; the community champion delivers 3 boxes of goodies on a weekly basis to Kents Hill for everyone to enjoy, bringing a smile to many faces as she arrives.&n

Thank you Kingston Tesco

We had some beautiful flowers gifted from a relatives family, we decided to arrange them into some small wooden crates and they have brightened our home beautifully during the cold winter months.

Flowers

Clarendon Court are embracing send a friend a card day on Saturday 7th February. We have had some e cards created and a little pocket hug to send to our friends and relatives to remind them we are thinking about them.

Send A Friend A Card Day

Minute Your Moves campaign, AGE UK Bromsgrove, Redditch & Wyre Forest

Team Wharf have joined Age UK Bromsgrove, Redditch & Wyre Forest community campaign to get everyone moving more. Our residents are supporting our local district, Wyre Forest, in recording all the minutes that they spend moving when doing activities.