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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.

Elizabeth, resident at Cavendish Court celebrated her golden wedding anniversary with her husband Ray on Saturday, due to limited visitors to the home, Ray arranged with care staff to skype Elizabeth and he sent flowers to the home. Staff surprised Elizabeth with a huge bouquet of flowe

Golden Wedding Anniversary

Although we are going through a difficult time you cant fail to be lifted by the kind thoughts of people, especially young people.

Cards from Barnsfield Primary School

In these difficult times we never fail to be amazed at the thoughtfulness of people, especially young people.

Community Spirit in Slough

River View chef Antonio Carvalho prepared a delicious traditional Irish menu for our St Patrick's Day celebrations that was really enjoyed by all of our residents.

STARTER:

LEEK AND POTATO SOUP SERVED WITH SODA BREAD

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St Patrick's Day Menu at River View

Residents and staff celebrated St Patrick's Day in style by dressing up in the national colours and enjoying a special Irish lunch menu.

St Patrick's Day Celebrations at River View

On Mother's Day, Morrison's supermarket in Poynton sent all the flowers they had in store to Hope Green Residential Home.

Mother's Day at Hope Green

Lego provides a creative and colourful challenge, combining co-ordination and enjoyment for our residents at The Belvedere. We use it whilst relaxing and socialising.

Creative and Colourful Challenge at The Belvedere

Residents at The Belvedere enjoyed taking part in arm exercises enabling hand and eye co-ordination.

Lots of fun had by all and residents are looking forward to the next exercise class.

Armchair Exercises at The Belvedere

A Message From Jacqueline

A Message From Water Royd House

A Message From Stan

A Message From Water Royd House

A Message From Cyril

A Message From Water Royd House

Here at Cavendish Court we have been keeping residents in touch with their loved ones via skype and facetime.

Postcard Delivery for Cavendish Court

Blenheim Care Centre has a new resident, welcome to Doogle.

Doogle is being fostered by Eva our manager and is now part of the furniture. Our residents love him and he loves being part of Blenheim.

Our first attempt at planting strawberry seeds using the knowledge of one of our residents who has grown lots of fruit and vegetables. We googled how to grow strawberries form slicing the seeds from a ripe strawberry and laying in compost. This is the first time she has grown strawber

Planting Strawberry Seeds at Skell Lodge

An afternoon of arts and crafts for residents at Croft House Care Home. Residents got together to make crafts in preparation for Easter.

Easter Preparations at Croft House Care Home

The residents at Willow Bank Nursing Home enjoyed making their own pizzas with a variety of toppings. They chose their own toppings and later ate them for dinner.

Some of the residents had not tried olives before and we agreed that they are like marmite, love them or hate them!

Homemade Pizzas at Willow Bank

Residents of Ashfield Court Care Home had a great afternoon flipping pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. We asked our residents how they’d like their pancakes and a few said they’d like to have a try at making their own.

Pancake Day at Ashfield Court

WOW! March is here, another month of experiences designed to be interesting and stimulating and above all fun.

Highlighted activities for March at Clarendon Court are;

Upcoming Events at Clarendon Court for March

Jed who is extremely excited to dress up as the March Hare for our Mad Hatter Tea Party. Our residents have been working very hard on their costumes and the decorations. We cannot wait until the big day!

Alice in Wonderland Tea Party Preparations

It was a special outing for one of our resident's Audrey as it was the first time she was feeling up to going on one of our Wednesday outings. She used to go to Disley Community Centre every week for cuppa and chat and would bake cakes for everyone and help out in the kitchen.

Special Outing for Audrey

We had a great Valentines Day at Bowerfield Court with a buffet party, cake decorating, bucks fizz and romantic films in the afternoon. Prior to the big day we had made decorations, Valentines and had special Valentines Day entertainment.

Valentines Day Preparations at Bowerfield Court

On the 21st February, Hope Green held their Memory Café with lots of guests including the Mayor of Macclesfield. We had an acoustic band with lots of singing and dancing, homemade cakes and games to play.

Our residents and visitors thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Memory Cafe at Hope Green

Residents and families of Howgate House were invited to a community coffee morning at the local Primary School.

Cake and Coffee Morning for Howgate House Residents

On Valentines Day Howgate House residents enjoyed a good old singalong with percussion instruments.

The shakers were homemade out of old plastic bottles with dried corn, peas and beans.

Fun afternoon enjoyed by all.

Music Afternoon at Howgate House

The residents at Skell Lodge loved meeting our new friend Annie (the dog). Annie comes to see us every week and we get cuddles and the chance to feed her biscuits.

Residents at Skell Lodge Meet Annie

This month at The Moors Care Centre, the residents decided to take on a a new challenge, as it is Easter soon and we are getting very excited about the arrival from Incredible Eggs. For 10 days residents will be able to watch a number of chicks hatch and take care of them.

Easter Preparations at The Moors Care Centre

It’s always sad when we have to say goodbye to one of our residents but what made it more bittersweet was that George Smith had a birthday coming up. His family contacted us after the funeral and donated some money so that George’s good friends at Earsdon Grange could have a tea party in hi

Birthday Tea Party at Earsdon Grange

We believe all of our residents are individuals and as such have different likes and dislikes.

Graham goes to the gym

Join us at Howgate House in Idle, Bradford on Thursday 5th March from 2 - 4pm for a cuppa and tea loaf. Everyone welcome.

Yorkshire Cuppa and Tea Loaf Event at Howgate House

Chris Brown, staff member at Howgate House Care Home is modelling her outfit in preparation for our Tea 4 Free event on Tuesday 5th March 2 - 4 pm.

Preparations at Howgate House for Tea 4 Free Event

The Cornwall Air Ambulance does an amazing job and we are proud to support them in anyway we can. For the recent "Wear it Red Day", residents and the team at Windmill Court wore red and our bake sale raised £64.37.

Windmill Court Supports Cornwall Air Ambulance

We love to make meals a special occasion with our American Diner being one of our favorite themes at Windmill Court.

American Diner Theme at Windmill Court

We celebrated Valentines Day in style with tea, cakes and fizz at Windmill Care Centre in Slough.

Valentine's Day at Windmill Care Centre

Flowerland in Bourne End is a favourite place to visit for our residents at Windmill Care Centre, Slough, especially for lunch.

Visit to Flowerland in Bourne End

Here at Field View Care Home on Hesleden Road, Blackhall we love a good celebration and we were delighted to celebrate Sheila Dunn’s 100th Birthday on 21st February. Sheila came to us at Field View about a month ago and we were so excited that her 100th birthday was approaching we made

Field View celebrates 100th Birthday

Residents at Clumber Court enjoyed a recent visit from Keeley, who came to sing 1950's hits. She was dressed for the occasion ready for lots of dancing with our residents in her 1950's dress.

1950's Hits at Clumber Court

Linsay Ellis, one of the home's favourite entertainers came to sing for the residents at Heeley Bank Care Home in Sheffield.

Musical Entertainment at Heeley Bank

Join us on Wednesday 18th March 2 - 4pm at our free Memory Cafe. If you are caring for a loved one with dementia, please do come along to this free event. Please contact the home for more information and to book your free place.

Memory Cafe at The Belvedere

This month we celebrated Valentine's Day with residents and family members or their special partner. We made hearts with moving messages of love on them.

Valentine's Celebrations at Bowerfield House

Love is in the air at Buckingham House.

We had an early Valentine's afternoon tea party. We also offered a private afternoon dinner date for a couple who didn't want to join the party.

Love is in the air at Buckingham House

Come along to Abingdon Court's Open Day on Thursday 12th March 10am - 4pm.

Take a tour of our refurbished home and see the brilliant facilities we have to offer.

Enjoy delicious refreshments and entertainment. .

Abingdon Court Open Event

Dennis and Brian enjoyed a trip to the Museum of Science and Industry today. They took the train from Alderley Edge to Manchester. Both Dennis and Brian, before their dementia diagnosis travelled via trains most days.

Trip down memory lane for two residents at Cavendish Court

Yohden Care Complex on Hesleden Road, Blackhall are delighted to announce after their recent CQC inspection they have remained at GOOD. Yohden Care Complex was inspected in January 2019 and then again in February 2020. CQC inspected the service and grades are based on whether they find

Yohden Care Complex remains Good by CQC

February brought with it Valentines and this year we decided to have a weeks worth of Valentines related activities.

Valentine's Week at White Rose Lodge

White Rose Lodge was delighted to welcome Jo from the Co-op Funeral Care Company. Jo brought with her a large memory box filled with items of interest for the residents of historical relevance in the hopes of sparking reminiscence.

Sparking reminiscence for residents at White Rose Lodge

This week we have been joined with 4 members of the hospice at home staff, they have been working along the staff at Cavendish Court to experience life in a care home.

Cavendish Court creating links with local Hospice

Isabella celebrated her 103rd birthday this week at Cavendish Court with her family and staff. We enjoyed cake, music and reminiscing.

Happy Birthday Isabella.

Resident Celebrates 103rd Birthday at Cavendish Court

Our residents at Hope Green took part in a bit of baking. Residents helped melt chocolate, cover the rice crispies and cornflakes and pop them in paper cases.

They then got to enjoy them later with a cup of tea.

Residents at Hope Green enjoy a day of baking

Troutbeck Care Home celebrated Valentines day 2020 in style.

We celebrated with Food Music and specially selected poetry all with Love in mind.

Love in mind at Troutbeck Care Home

Staff at Cavendish Court celebrated Valentine’s day with residents and attended work in their Pyjamas. A great atmosphere and fun had by all.

Valentines Day celebrations at Cavendish Court Care Home