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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.

Bowerfield House had another great fun day celebrating hug a bear day, staff and residents loved giving our massive teddy bear Ted a big hug.

Ted the teddy bear made everyone smile and cheered every one up. Ted was all hugged up and later went for an afternoon nap.

Hug A Bear Day
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We had great fun making bonfire biscuits at Cavendish Court. We decorated our biscuits like fireworks using icing sugar and sprinkles, we had great fun getting messy and enjoyed eating our handiwork with a cup of tea mmmm delicious!

Bonfire Biscuits
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Our residents really enjoyed watching the garden fireworks on Bonfire Night at Carmel Lodge. We had a lovely night enjoyed by all residents and staff.

Bonfire Night at Carmel Lodge
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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
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There is no end to the talents of our residents at Cedar Court, they take on every challenge set them!  They were very keen to take part in the Cranleigh competition for the best 'Guy' to be thrown on the local bonfire.

Cedar Court Residents created a lovely pair of 'Guys' for the Cranleigh Bonfire competition!
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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
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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.

Pamper Day
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Not a holiday that those who live here are used to celebrating, but our Halloween celebrations turned out to be such a fun filled day.

HALLOWEEN AT PARKVIEW HOUSE
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We are very pleased to announce that our Lifestyle Co-ordinators, Stanley and Kirsty are now qualified to develop and lead exercise classes, after completing the 'Exercise Leadership' course with Oomph! Wellness.

We are OOMPH! qualified!
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Things got OOOKY SPOOKY here at Abingdon Court, as we all gathered for some Halloween celebrations!

Halloween Party
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In the spirit of Halloween, we collected a large array of pumpkins so we could decorate the lounge ready for our Halloween.

Pumpkin People Making
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As we move into Autumn, and experience cooler temperatures outside, it’s a lot harder to get our fix of the outdoors environment.

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

Pumpkin Painting Station
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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
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At Highfield many of the people living with us enjoy participating in art and craft activities and this week joined into pumpkin crafting including painting, carving along with flower arranging in the pumpkins 🎃

HALLOWEEN ARTS & CRAFTS AT HIGHFIELD
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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
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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
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The residents loved listening to music with a cuppa and being pampered from nails to make up in there very own beauty salon here at the Moors Care Centre.  We have lots of activities on during the week but sometimes we just enjoy some 1-1 time together having our nails done or a pamper for t

Beauty Salon at The Moors
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We had a fabulous day celebrating the care awards with our residents. We were delighted to win Best New Comer for our fabulous Home Manager Angela Galloway and Administrator of the year for our Admin Michael Lawrence.

Care Award Celebrations at Willowbank
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The residents enjoyed getting dressed up and were happy to be part of the annual 7th MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards which took place on Friday 24th September.

Care Awards at Thorntree
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We had a coffee afternoon to raise funds for MacMillan. Residents helped set up the Tombola stall and enjoyed an afternoon of fun and chat. They are so pleased we raised £47. Our tombola stall was made up of Body Shop products and the ladies were thrilled when somehow they all won something.

MacMillan Support at Thorntree Mews
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We celebrated a belated Macmillan Coffee morning in September to raise vital funds for this amazing charity and all they do to support the community.  The day of the Macmillan coffee morning coincided with our annual care awards so we decided to host this a week later so our wonderful reside

Macmillan Coffee Morning at Rosedale
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On Friday 19th October we were delighted to be presented with second prize from Great Aycliffe town council for best community garden. We were absolutely over the moon to receive this award.

2nd Place For Best Community Garden
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We enjoyed celebrating the Annual MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards in September at the home.  We were joined by our wonderful residents enjoying themselves with some cocktails and we were all keeping our fingers crossed for Jodie to win the award of Activities Coordinator of the Year.

Care Awards at White Rose Lodge
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Our home baking club activity in the home is always really popular and this month was no exception when we made home made chocolate buns.  Our residents do all of the work and then our Chef at the home pops them in the oven for us.  We always make extra to share with all of the resident

Home Baking Club
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The residents at Willowbank had great fun at our Halloween party today. Thank you to our chefs David and Mario for the delicious food.

Halloween Party at Willowbank
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We love having seasonal displays in Reception at The Moors and we are delighted to present our Harvest Festival display for Autumn.  Our receptionist Tricia excels at creating these wonderful displays for the residents, staff and relatives to enjoy in the coffee shop.  We hope you enjoy

Harvest Festival Display
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We celebrated Bill's 100th Birthday at the home in October, with lots of fizz and laughter. Bill was delighted to receive a very special letter from the Queen.  We hope you had the most wonderful birthday with us at The Moors.

Bill's 100th Birthday
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There has been plenty of activity at Oaklands this month.  We have had a Paper pumpkin making with a Royal Family quiz.  Pumpkin painting and making pumpkin faces with stickers.  Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin carving with a group singalong.

Halloween Preparation at Oaklands
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Halloween has arrived at Manor Park and each unit have been challenged to decorated their own lounge.

Manor Park Halloween Competition
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We had a wonderful Friday afternoon in October with a live singing entertainment us from the garden. We enjoyed having a singalong and dance and had a great time.  So pleased he was able to visit before the cold days set in.

Live Entertainment
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As the lawns were cut for winter we popped out to do some gardening with the residents planting some colourful flowers to see us through the winter months at the home.  The residents had a wonderful time deciding which plants were being potted where and we can’t wait for you to see them when

Gardening at Croft
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We were all set for our Halloween party at the home on Sunday 31st October and bought some witches hats for our residents to dress up in and be part of the fun and games we had planned.  Our wonderful kitchen team created a buffet for us and we enjoyed lots of party games and spooky Hallowee

Halloween Party at Croft
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We are enjoying getting out and about again and in October we enjoyed a lovely day out to the Japanese Gardens. We had such a wonderful day following the map of the gardens and exploring the bridges, gardens and pathways.  We would definitely recommend a visit if you’ve not been before.

Days Out
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We had a wonderful Halloween party at the home in October with lots of spooky pumpkins and a table of snacks for trick or treat.  There was lots of fun and games, lovely food and singing and dancing. 

Halloween Party at Wallace View
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We thought we’d set ourselves a challenge of learning the accordion at the home today.  What a chuckle we had taking turns and seeing who could make the best tune.

Learning The Accordion
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We had a visit from Comley Park Nursery today. Out in our lovely garden and Summerhouse. The residents have really missed their weekly visit and it was lovely to catch up . Visit had to be outside because of restrictions but with our gardens and summerhouse it was easy to facilitate.

Visit From The Nursery
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One of our sister homes were looking for pen-pals and never one to miss an opportunity for our residents we took up the challenge.  We spent a lovely morning creating some cards for posting to our new contacts and pen pals and we can’t wait to hear back from them.

Pen Pals
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Victorious at Strathclyde park as we completed a successful fun day raising money for charity and giving back to our community.

Raising Money For Charity
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The winners of the Pumpkin competition was number 4 - Garrion .. the black bowler hat has changed to a witches hat .. spooky spooky.  Our pumpkin hat judge presented the prizes ..

Pumpkin Competition at Parksprings
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Doing the things that we love the most. Thank you to Lugar bowling club for helping us support our residents to keep involved. Over seventy years membership between them and a few championship titles. New memories were made and time spent remembering the good old times.

Lugar Bowling Club
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We celebrated a belated Macmillan Coffee morning at the Home in September raising money for this wonderful charity.

Macmillan Coffee Morning
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We celebrated Halloween at Willowdene and had lots of fun dressing up in the home.  Residents and staff dressed up and had a Halloween party.  We were entertained by Sam Naylor who was brilliant and enjoyed lots of sweets and cupcakes during the afternoon and a Halloween buffet for tea

Halloween at Willowdene
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We celebrated Alzheimer’s month at the home in September by creating our own dragon flies and lilies.  Our residents created a wonderful display of their work and to remember Alzheimer’s during the month of September.

Alzheimer's Month
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We got into the Halloween spirit during arts and crafts at the home in October and created our own ghouls. We think we did a really good job of them and the concentration during arts and crafts was intense.   

Halloween Arts and Crafts
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We had a lovely afternoon being entertained by Mike Wild as Elvis outside of the home in October.  Our residents sat in the reception area of the home and Elvis performed for us in our patio garden.  There was lots of singing and we enjoyed some fresh cream cakes and tea.

Elvis Performance
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We have been making the most of the last of the sunshine in the garden in October and we had ice cream and a visit from the neighbours cat.   Brenda enjoyed the feeling of grass on her feet. Fair well summer, hello to a new season with lots of fun planned.

October Sunshine
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We celebrated National Mad Hatters Day in October with tea and cakes and made jam tarts the day before Mad Hatters Day. It was also Thomasina's 101st birthday so it was a double celebration at the home on 8th October for us.

Mad Hatters Day
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The winter days are fast approaching and we haven’t been out in the gardens as much this month but that doesn’t stop us having fun in the home.  We created our own table tennis table in the dining room and challenged each other to a competition.  There were lots of laughter ringing out

Table Tennis
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We have received a lovely donation of fiddle muffs hand made by a local lady who kindly made us a variety of these for our home.  Our residents loved them and we were so grateful for the donation.

Donation of Fiddle Muffs
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