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 Sainsburys at Sedgefield Manager Nicola and her colleague Sophie called to Willowdene care home to donate a box of Christmas goodies for the staff and residents.  The residents at the home were over the moon.

We received some wonderful cards from St Joseph's Primary school. Each one had a lovely message in from the wonderful school children. There was a card for each resident.

Thank you so much for thinking of us all

We had lots of fun for Elf Day here at Water Royd and had a lot of fun dressing up for the residents.  There was many activities we had on over the Christmas period at the home and have put up lots of pictures on our Facebook page.

Here at Heeley Bank we believe that if we can't take our residents to the Christmas pantomime, we will bring the pantomime to them. Performed and written by our wonderful staff. We brought to life the story of Cinderella.

J and I had a pod visit yesterday to see B on her birthday. We can't express enough our thanks and gratitude that all the staff put in to celebrate B's birthday. With everyone singing happy birthday and the candle on the cake, B's face lit up and we saw the biggest smile ever.

Santa came to our home, lots and lots of big happy smiles. 

Merry Christmas to all. 

We had a Christmas art and craft day mainly repairing the nose on our snowman and the antlers on the reindeer and general Christmas arts and craft. A very enjoyable day for the class.

Jed, one of our long standing residents, enjoyed his Guinness with his Christmas Lunch.  

Merry Christmas. 

Bowerfield Court are delighted with our first Christmas Day indoor visit. This was followed by many more. Dale's sister and niece have not physically seen him since March, as you can imagine it was very emotional. Fabulous day and visit. 

The residents enjoyed a beach party at the home in December.  We built plenty of sand castles whilst wearing sunglasses to keep the sun out of their eyes. We also had a visit from Marcello ice cream and the residents enjoyed going out to pick up their ice creams.

Christmas this year is a little different for everyone but our fabulously creative, activities coordinator Ellen wanted to make sure the residents still had a Christmas tree they could see and designed one inside our Court yards so that we could all still see and feel the magic of Christmas.

We are delighted with our visitors pod at Belmont House and how wonderful it is for our relatives and residents to enjoy a chat and cuppa together.

We have had a blast on 8th December for Elf yourself for Alzheimer's day raising money for an amazing charity which is close to the hearts of all of the staff at Barnes Court.

One of our sister homes' had a wonderful idea of creating resident Christmas pictures to be sent with cards from the residents using a festive backdrop.  It was such a wonderful idea and the residents loved getting into the Christmas spirit.  We took pictures of the residents

Food delivery from Cavendish Court to the food bank at Hazel Grove Baptist Church. We collected lots of Christmas treats to help out those less fortunate.