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The period of Remembrance is a time that holds a high amount of significance for many of those who live here at Abingdon Court. For this reason, we make certain to honour and respect this time.

We celebrated world nursery rhyme week in style!

We had a lovely trip last week with our residents. We took advantage of the weather and made our way to our local park making a stop for a cup of tea and yummy cake at our local deli.

Today we are celebrating our head chef (Douglas)'s 50th birthday. Happy  Birthday from Residents & Staff at Ashfield Court.

Bowerfield House worked hard on getting the home ready for Remembrance Sunday. We decorated the house inside and out, painted pebbles red and black and made a piece of art for the garden.

We wanted to recognise Remembrance at Brunel House and we hosted a 1940s day.

A morning of reflection on Remembrance Day was a great way to celebrate peace and what that looks like in our world today. Residents and staff enjoyed poppy crafts and putting together displays of remembrance through the home.

Today is Remembrance Day. Everyone in Amber Court take a moment of time to give honour and respect to all the people who have been part of World War. We’ve done this by taking time of silence, activities and artworks with the residents to commemorate our heroes.

New decorations at Abbey View, a lot of red poppies all around so we can commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts,

Allingham House is an international environment where people all around the world work together giving the best of themselves to deliver the best caring assistance to our residents. For that reason, we like to include our residents on popular festivals in other countries.

This year for Halloween the home and residents decided to turn the reception area into a spooky spiders lair. Everyone gave their opinions and added their artistic fair to the decorating around the home.

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.

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

We had such a lovely afternoon watching the care awards and cheering for the nominated staff across the homes and we enjoyed a lovely buffet of the residents favourite foods.

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.

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

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.

Just a little thank you to all the team at Manor Park for being so amazing at what they do. Today is cake Friday for all the staff and residents and our residents loved picking their favourite cake to enjoy with their carers on shift that day.

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