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Baking Club at Gateford Hill

Our residents had a lovely morning baking coconut tarts. It triggered lots of lovely memories when they lived at home and baked for their own families.

This morning our lovely residents made and decorated gingerbread houses, they all loved talking of Christmas time, the smells and of course the delicious food.

Gingerbread Houses

Christmas has arrived at The Wharf and we are looking forward to welcoming our residents friends & families over the festive season.

Christmas at The Wharf

Christmas preparations were in full swing at Furze Hill Lodge in November and the residents enjoyed wrapping presents and preparing the decorations for our tree.

Christmas Preparations

Christmas Tree Decorating

Our residents have had a lovely afternoon decorating the Christmas tree in another of our lounges today. It triggered lots of lovely memories for them from when they used to decorate their own homes at Christmas time over the years.

We had a lovely day on Friday celebrating Elf day with a family and friends, playing games and quizzes.

Elf Day

Halloween Event at Chartwell Manor

More movement was Thursday fun at Chartwell Manor this week. One of our lovely ladies who live with us used to be a PE teacher - so she led the class this morning. 'More' is Maria Mallaband's Lifestyle Programme which allows us to support our residents in doing...More...😊

More Movement

November 2022

Anyone for cocktails?? Last night we held a Cocktail Tasting Event at Chartwell Manor. Our guests were treated to tasters of Franky's signature cocktails and were given a score card to rate each one...trouble was they were all so good...we couldn't decide!

Cocktail Tasting Event

November 2022

We had a spooktacular time this week at Chartwell Manor for our first Halloween event. Thank you to Bea and Carol in our Lifestyle Team and our very talented Chef, Amanda for the truly delicious cupcakes.

November 2022

Diane and Jacqui got stuck in to making some cupcakes and were thoroughly enjoyed by all. Our Lifestyle Team are passionate about meaningful activities to support independence and cooking and baking will be high up on

Who Said Cake???

Diane was treated to a mini pamper session at Chartwell Manor Spa and had a full manicure. Diane used to love going to the beauticians to have her nails painted – we are so lucky to have such a beautiful spa for our residents to use.

Pamper Session

Creating meaningful activities that support independence for the people that live with us is so important. The lifestyle team worked with the catering team to provide an opportunity for people to make their own supper. Everyone had a great time cutting up vegetables for so

Making Soup

We would like to thank everyone who came and supported our MacMillan coffee morning and cake sale. Our kitchen was very busy making some delicious cakes that tasted as good as they looked.

MacMillan Coffee Morning

We enjoyed some autumn themed painting with a twist, we used broccoli to paint with!

Autumn Artwork

We would like to say a huge "Thank you" to everyone who came and supported our Macmillan coffee morning this week. We are so grateful for all the donations and support for this amazing cause.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

As the weather was glorious some of people living us wanted to get out into the sunshine so we visited the local park. We played badminton and ball games and spent quality time and lovely conversation with refreshments.

Park visit

Heading out to the beach it so lovely and for the people living with us somewhere that they love to visit, so we got into minibus and headed to the coast. It was such a lovely day and we had to have an ice cream before we went back.

Trip to the beach

One of the people living with us had a fantastic time getting out to the local shop with our carer Louise. He got to buy himself lots of goodies including his favourite drink Pepsi Max. It was such a beautiful day to take a stroll.

Trip to the shops

Monread Farewell to our Queen

Monday was a strange day, our residents sat in silence as they watched their beloved queen's funeral, the occasional comment on the procession and how very British it is and how great we are at doing it. Some s

Our residents recently enjoyed a visit from some birds of prey. Some were even brave enough to hold them and stroke them. The visit brought a lot of pleasure to everyone. The sun was shining it was such a lovely afternoon.

Birds of Prey

We very much enjoy our coffee mornings and it’s now a weekly occurrence where we go out and enjoy a nice coffee and a chat watching the world go by. There are some strong friendships groups within our Home and we understand the importance of getting out and about in our groups of friends 😊

Coffee Outings

Being apart of the community is important and we have been so lucky to be invited to visit Dorking library with the music community team. The residents have enjoyed dancing and drawing activities as well as reading sessions which has been thoroughly enjoyed by the people taking part.

Dorking Library Visit

Emergency Services Breakfast

We are hugely thankful to the emergency services that are working so hard in our community and we wanted to do something to show them our gratitude. We arranged a takeaway breakfast with tea and coffee for them to pop in and get at the home.

Today we had our regular entertainer in for a sing along, our residents love singing along to all the songs from through out their lives.

Sing a long

Our residents were so thrilled to have a visit from a therapy pony from ‘dinky ponies’ called Poppy. Poppy started her visit in the garden and then went through the home visiting people on her way which was so lovely. Both poppy the pony and our residents loved one another’s company.

Pony Visit

Some ladies that are living with us wanted to get some new shoes and of course we wanted to make that happen for them. We popped off in our transport to the local town.

Shopping for Shoes

Being able to see and hold animals again is so lovely. The people living with us all really enjoy interacting with animals so we organised a visit from a petting zoo. Everyone loved holding and hearing interesting facts about all the different animals.

Petting Zoo Visit

In honour of the Queen we watched a documentary about her life and had a cream tea while looking through books and photos of her and hearing poems about her.

Remembering our Queen

A huge thank you to Tim for carrying out our first Sunday service here at Lace Hill Manor. Tim was joined by friends of the community along with our residents over the weekend to take part in the service.

Sunday Service

Our "More Movement" classes are scheduled every week into our lifestyle programme. They provide our residents important time to focus on movements and exercises to support mobility and strength within care plans.

More Movement

We are pleased to have introduced here at Lace Hill Manor the Motitech Virtual Bike which provides our residents the chance to virtually explore the world whilst pedalling or using hand movements to guide them through the city streets.

Virtual Bike

We are continuing with our reflections after sudden passing of our beloved Queen, Elizabeth II. We created some floral displays for the home and others enjoyed doing some colouring whilst watching the news and talking about memories they have of the Queen.

Tributes to our Queen

We are continuing with our reflections after sudden passing of our beloved Queen, Elizabeth II.

Reflections of our Queen

We had all just enjoyed our exercise class when the residents all said that they would like a game of football so we got the ball out and enjoyed a kick about. It was such fun and everyone had a good giggle.

Movement at Kings Manor

We were all deeply saddened at the home to hear of the loss of Her Majesty the Queen and wanted to do something to pay our respects. We have been painting autumn leaves in red, white and blue so that we can make a wreath to lay in respect of our late queen on Monday.

Wreath for the Queen

Everyone at the home wanted an opportunity to celebrate the recent CQC inspection where the home acquired a good score.
The home was decorated with an Hawaiian theme, staff and residents enjoyed a party with a BBQ, Music and games. It was a lovely afternoon for all.

CQC Good Celebrations

We love an opportunity in the home to celebrate a national food or drink day and today is Chocolate milkshake day so we must have chocolate milkshake... so yummy. Everyone really enjoyed them.

Chocolate Milkshake Day

Keeping up to date with the latest in the news and current affairs is really important to people living with us. Everyone was keen to make a guess on who would be our new Prime Minister. We all got together to watch the announcement.

The Prime Minister

It was National Hot Dog day on Saturday so our residents very much enjoyed a hot dog supper. The people living with us got to choose their perfect hot dog topping too, onions, mustard, tomato ketchup or a mixture of all three.

National Hot Dog Day

Residents have enjoyed making Victorian peg dolls. There wasn't a sound during this activity; they were all totally engaged. They were so pleased with the results and so proud of their dolls.

Victorian Peg Dolls

The feedback from the people living with us and their friends and family members is important, and we wanted to give them opportunity to create their own autumn/winter menu.

Menu Tasting

At this weeks art class, residents learned the technique of applying textures and light and dark shades to background colour as the base for their paintings. They then had to learn brush technique for the flowers and mixing paints.

Art Class

Venimus, canebamus, totus erat groovy! We came, we sang, all was groovy!

Jimi Hendrix

MacMillan Coffee Afternoon at Parkview House

On Saturday 20th August 2022 Parkview House held a Coffee Afternoon in aid of MacMillan Cancer support.

Trip To The Garden Centre

The residents of Manorhey Care Centre visited the J Parker's Garden Centre in the afternoon.

They enjoyed all the different plants, colours and smells.

One of the residents comment on how amazed she was with all different shades of green.

On photography day, some of Manorhey residents went to a nearby farm.

They were indulged with the amazing view, horses, birds and flowers around.

They took pictures of their surroundings. It was a pleasant afternoon.

Photography Day

For one of this week's morning, our residents had a free hand painting session.

They decide to draw the first thing that come to their mind.

Some draw animals, even wrote the noises that those same animals do.

Free Hand Painting

We are thrilled to be able to show the community our recent CQC Good score from our recent inspection on our new banner outside of the home.

Chestnut Court CQC Good

Taking advantage of the good weather again this afternoon we went on a walk through our local park, then strolled around the local pet shop having a look at all the animals and the tropical fish on display.

Park Walk