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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.

So many of us have friends and/or family that live in Ireland and as such St Patrick's Day was never going to quietly pass us by. This is us raising a glass to wish love and friendship and, to everyone we know "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow.

St Patrick Day Celebrations at Parkview

Friday 12th March was Mauritian National Day and we wanted to celebrate in style. One of the ladies who we care for, Kathy (Kanteeamah) was born in Goodlands in Mauritius and the team dressed up as airline crew and in national dress and we accompanied her on a virtual flight to Mauritius.

Mauritian National Day

World Book Day was celebrated in style at Brunel House with a Mad Hatters tea party. The staff team as usual were amazing dressing up as their favourite characters from books whilst the residents enjoyed reminiscing about their favourite childhood books.

World Book Day at Brunel

The chicks are now six days old and growing fast! The residents are thoroughly enjoying their time with them and for some this is the first time that they have actually felt or held a chick. We are so pleased that we have been able to offer this unique experience.

Allingham House celebrated Red Nose Day with a Fundraising Coffee Morning. Staff from different departments collaborated baking delicious cupcakes, biscuits and chocolate brownies. Later on, Activities Staff sold them to raise money for Comic Relief.

Red Nose Day Fundraiser

We celebrated St Patrick's Day with Irish Cream Liquor, Guinness and lots of Irish music.

St Patrick's Day Celebrations

Thank you for the chocolates which were kindly bought by a resident's family as a token of appreciation for looking after their mum. Your mum was a pleasure to look after and the chocolates will be enjoyed by all the staff here at Hope Green.

Thank you so much for the Easter eggs which were bought for our wonderful team here at Hope Green as a thank you from a family for looking after their father during their stay here at Hope Green. As a team, we appreciate this kind gesture, and we will all enjoy eating our Easter egg!

Easter Egg Gift

Home baking at our home is such an important part of our activities and our residents love getting involved. Every week we have a different recipes to try and residents on both floors have a go at making them. This week our residents in the Blossom unit make bis

We have celebrated Mothers/Mams/Mums with lots of conversations, some brought laughter and others tears, but it was so lovely to be able to provoke such good memories of our mums, those special ladies who made our childhood great.

Mother's Day at Astor Court

Residents at Bowerfield House have been enjoying lots of activities. Some of the residents favourites were flower arranging, pizza making and we celebrated Mother's Day and St Patrick's Day in style with our Irish queen Helena. It was a great week with lots of fun and laughter.

A Week of Celebrations at Bowerfield House

Since it was national foot spa day we thought we would catch the opportunity to pamper ourselves using the foot spa.

As part of our preparation for Mothering Sunday we held a morning of Decoupage which everyone really enjoyed. Preparation was key as we had to press and store our flowers four weeks prior to using them but the wait was worth it, our jars and vases looking stunning.

Craft Sessions for Mothering Sunday

St Patrick's Day was celebrated at Brunel's regular luncheon club with a St. Patrick's Day themed menu.

St Patrick's Day Luncheon Club

Stanley, one of our activities team has been working with some of the residents who are less able to attend group events and activities within the home. He has taken a tablet to the residents in their rooms and they have begun to enjoy painting on the tablet. This has been a huge success.

We celebrated in style at Abingdon Court. The activities team of course were dressed to the nines in full on St Patrick's Day themed outfits whilst the rest of the staff team, never ones to miss out, made sure that they were wearing something green to join in with the fun.

St Patrick's Day at Abingdon Court

We are so very lucky at Abingdon Court that Christchurch Church provide us with a regular church service.

Online Digital Church Service

Today at Manorhey residents and staff members celebrated St Patrick's Day. In the morning we had an Irish special virtual concert with all our favourite songs performed by one of our regular performers Debbie McCormick.

St Patrick's Day at Manorhey

What an amazing surprise this morning for all residents and staff. Overnight we have had two of our eggs hatch!

Chicks at Bowerfield Court

Everyone here at Bowerfield Court are looking forward to the run up to Easter. We have lots of activities planned, starting off today with a very special delivery. We currently have eight eggs in an incubator preparing to hatch.

Bowerfield Court's Easter Eggs

Residents enjoyed making placemats for the tables on St Patrick's Day, a lot of work went into these and there were enough to go round for everyone. They looked great and really brightened up the tables.

St Patrick's Day

We had a fish supper at The Belvedere this week. All residents enjoyed their dinner along with a glass of wine or a bottle of beer.

We are starting off our herb garden. The residents had lots of fun potting the seeds and a mindful to keep them watered.

Our team are ready to celebrate St Patrick's Day with our residents.

St Patrick's Day

As part of our monthly visits to different countries we decided to go to Mexico. We decorated our home ready for a Mexico themed fun-filled day which we ended with a fiesta. We dressed in sombreros and ponchos and enjoyed tacos and nachos with cheese, salsa and sour cream dips.

To celebrate St David's Day we filled Riverview with daffodils and enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea. In the words of St David, "Be joyful, keep the faith and do the little things that you have heard and seen me do."

St David's Day At Riverview

Abingdon's activities team Kirsty and Stanley have been busy preparing for Mother's Day. Stanley ensured that all those who wanted to were pampered and ready for Mother's Day, whilst all ladies received a gift to either celebrate them as a mother or to honour the special women in their lives.

Spring is almost with us but whilst we are waiting for the weather to warm up, we decided to create our own flower arrangements. Our residents chose their own colours and began to create these beautiful flowers. It was fiddly work but worth it when we saw the results.

Flower Arranging

Flower arranging is one of the favourite pastimes at Wyndham Hall. It's always a friendly and social group and the results are always beautiful.

Flower Arranging at Wyndham Hall

Bowerfield House held a Mother's Day raffle between staff, residents and relatives to bring some cheers this Mother's Day. Sarah won our first prize and Megan won the second prize.

Mother's Day Raffle

We had an amazing time at Cavendish Court Carnival Day. From hook a duck to the coconut shy, great fun was had by all.

We had a film afternoon. The residents thoroughly enjoyed a film from their past and their theatre treats.

It's been a very busy month so far with birthdays, Mother's Day this Sunday and we're now preparing for St Patrick's Day, residents have been busy cutting out shamrocks to decorate our tree and making placemats for the table.

St Patrick's Day Preparation

The residents enjoyed International Women's Day with a Rose Afternoon Tea. They enjoyed a selection of cakes, biscuits and pastries served with teas and coffees, while they were reminiscing about inspirational women in their lives.

International Women's Day At Allingham

Jordan Wild was nominated by staff and residents at Cavendish Court for our worker bee of the month. Jordan was very happy and surprised to have been nominated and won! Jordan is an excellent carer and truly deserves this nomination and award.

Worker Bee Of The Month February 2021

The Wharf team have introduced 'Jelly Drops' into our home much to our residents delight. They have gone down an absolute treat, they've definitely got the thumbs up. Jelly Drops are a unique hydration product developed to boost daily fluid intake.

Celebrating The Wharf Care Home resident Doreen Gordon reaching the incredible milestone of her 100th birthday!.

Mrs Doreen Gordon 100th Birthday

Our residents at Buckingham House have been busy preparing our Sanctuary - Demebtia Garden. We've made the most of the sunny day to repot some of our beautiful flowering places.

Preparing The Sanctuary

Who loves our bright and colourful spring notice board? This will definitely bring the sunshine indoors for us all to see.

Spring Notice Board

To celebrate British Pie week here at Manorhey we prepped and baked our favourite pies including chicken and leek, cheese and onion and a meat pie. We must say they were lovely and we really enjoyed them, cheese and onion was the chosen favourite of the day.

British Pie Week at Manorhey

Daniel Turner-Naylor celebrates his year anniversary with MMCG this month, having joined as Regional Director for Yorkshire before being promoted to Operations Director for new builds – a brand new role within MMCG.

A Big Year For Daniel

Sitting against the stunning backdrop of the Malvern Hills and nestled at the heart of the community it will serve, Windsor Court, our newest home under construction in Great Malvern, is an exciting prospect!

A brand new care home is coming to Great Malvern

Flower arranging is a favourite creative group activity at Cedar Court. Not only do we enjoy the tea and chatter, the results are always beautiful.

Flower Arranging

It's fantastic the ideas that can spring from the mind of our amazing Activities Coordinator. Katrina found some old cards and they were reworked into beautiful words. The people we care for expressed their thoughts on what made them happy.

Cards of Kindness

We've had a heart warming month here at Bowerfield House. We held a coffee morning for World Cancer Day, raising money for the Beechwood Cancer Care Centre in Stockport. We enjoyed a fabulous Chinese meal cooked in house by our chef for Chinese New Year.

February at Bowerfield House

Celebrating St David's Day at Wyndham Hall, daffodils in abundance! All our residents and staff enjoyed celebrating St David's Day as well as making daffodils and displaying them around the home.

Here at Hope Green we love to celebrate everyone's birthday. We like to ask everyone to choose what they would like to do for their big day.

Birthday's At Hope Green

There's been lots of smiles and laughter at Clarendon Court.

March At Clarendon Court

We are all very busy with our Spring Bulb Planting at Troutbeck. We will be updating our progress and flowering regularly.

Spring Bulb Planting

Celebrating pancake day, our residents really enjoyed pancakes made by our chef. Choice of topping include cream, golden syrup and traditional lemon.