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Our wonderful Donna McDermot, CP at Bowerfield Court, is cutting her hair to raise money for The Christie and residents at both Bowerfield Court and Bowerfield House. She will be sending her hair to a charity that makes wigs for those going through chemotherapy.

Donna's Hair Donation

For International Men's Day today we very much recognised and celebrated the men of our home. They thoroughly enjoyed pints of beer, pork pies coupled with branston pickle and games of scrabble.

International Men's Day

Gift From Stockport Council

This week, we were kindly gifted a bunch of beautiful flowers and chocolates, along with a thank you letter from Stockport Council as a reward for all the hard work the staff have done in this difficult time. Thank you Stockport Council!

We had a lovely surprise today, a beautiful sweetie hamper was delivered from one of our lovely families to say thank you to our team at Troutbeck. A massive thank you for thinking of us.

Sweetie Hamper

All staff donned a moustache for Movember to show their support and raise awareness for men's health issues. Quite a few laughs were raised too!

Movember

A Busy Week At Bowerfield House

A busy week at Bowerfield House. We celebrated Children In Need with a fun packed day - staff and residents took part in a PJ dress down day. There was lots of fun and smiles.

Happy Birthday to Jean who celebrated her birthday with the Bowerfield House team. Jean had a lovely cake!

Monthly Competition … Italy and Food

Here at Clarendon Court on Thursday 16th we had our pizza day where residents had fun assembling pizza's with the help of our staff, lots of laughs along the way and then after they were cooked, later for tea it was pizza's all around with a lovely glass of vino.

For World Kindness Day we created a kindness wall. Alongside the kindness quotes, staff were encouraged to write their own kind words on heart shaped paper and share them with their colleagues by adding them to the wall. We all agreed that a few kind words can go a long way.

World Kindness Day

We really got into the spirt of Halloween at Riverview, even Godzilla got an invite this year.

Halloween at Riverview

The staff at Brunel have done an amazing job in donating and purchasing essential items for a great charity called Supporting the homeless in the south west.

Supporting the Homeless

We traditionally respected the two minute silence on 11-11-20 at 11 o'clock watching with interest the TV broadcast. We followed this after lunch with a typical black and white WW2 film. A very moving day, but important to us all.

Remembrance Day

Residents and staff have been raising money for Children In Need by wearing their pyjamas, fun bowties, hats and Pudsey Bear T-Shirts . They also enjoyed decorating cupcakes and having a fun time.

Children In Need

Croft House Care Home are taking part in Elf Day on Friday 4th December to raise money for Alzheimer's Society. Whether it's putting on an elf hat or going all out with the full elf costume we will be getting dressed up for this Christmas event.

Elf Day

Remembrance day artwork by The Wharf Care Home residents. We will remember them..

Remembrance art work

Proud to support 'Breast Cancer Now' by wearing pink, a sea of pink in our home, worn by the residents and team.

Breast Cancer Now

Staff and residents at Hope Green were pleasantly surprised when these hampers arrived at the home as a thank you from our directors. This is really appreciated by the staff, thank you for thinking about us.

The Hope Green Team.

Thank You Hampers

There was lots of spooky goings on at Yohden Care Complex for Halloween. We all got dressed up in scary masks or painted our faces and the residents joined in with the staff. We had a lovely delivery of carved pumpkins and cakes from children of the staff at the home which was lovely

Happy Halloween

We were delighted to receive a gift hamper from Phil and the Directors at the home in October as a thank you for all of the hard work we do. The Head Office fairies snuck in and dropped off three of these fabulous hampers with lots of treats for each unit to share over a cuppa w

Thank you treats

We were delighted to receive a gift hamper from Phil and the Directors at the home in October as a thank you for all of the hard work we do. The Head Office fairies snuck in and dropped off two of these fabulous hampers with lots of treats for each unit to share over a cupp

We were delighted to receive a gift hamper from Phil and the Directors at the home in October as a thank you for all of the hard work we do. The Head Office fairies snuck in and dropped off three of these fabulous hampers with lots of treats for each unit to share over a cuppa w

We were delighted to receive a gift hamper from Phil and the Directors at the home in October as a thank you for all of the hard work we do. The Head Office fairies snuck in and dropped off three of these fabulous hampers with lots of treats for each unit to share over a cuppa w

We were delighted to receive a gift hamper from Phil and the Directors at the home in October as a thank you for all of the hard work we do. The Head Office fairies snuck in and dropped off three of these fabulous hampers with lots of treats for each unit to share over a cuppa w

We were delighted to receive a gift hamper from Phil and the Directors at the home in October as a thank you for all of the hard work we do. The Head Office fairies snuck in and dropped off two of these fabulous hampers with lots of treats for each unit to share over a cupp

We were delighted to receive a gift hamper from Phil and the Directors at the home in October as a thank you for all of the hard work we do. The Head Office fairies snuck in and dropped off three of these fabulous hampers with lots of treats for each unit to share over a cuppa with the resi

Thank you treats

Acorn Day Nursery Spider Hunt

The children of Acorn Day Nursery are a close community link for Kents Hill Care Home during 'normal' times; joining us for sports days, various activities and having a visit from Santa within the home. We were very excited that we were able to arrange a Halloween Spider hunt for the childr

Staff at Kents Hill Care Home were wearing it pink in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness

Wear it Pink

We recently had thank you hampers delivered to Bowerfield Court on behalf of the directors.

Very well received by staff. Thank you.

Thank You Hampers

Meet Andrea, one of our fantastic domestic team at Earsdon Grange, who has been busy today getting one of our bedrooms ready for a new resident coming into their new home.

We hope you enjoy many years in your new home.

Meet the Team

New Chef at Belmont House

Meet Joe McKee our new Head Chef at Belmont House. Since gaining his promotion on 12th October he has been keen to create a new menu with input from the residents.

We held a Wear It Pink day to raise money for breast cancer. All of the residents and staff wore pink clothes and pink ribbons and enjoyed music, cake, sweets, treats and dancing.

Wear It Pink Day

Many of our residents here at Cavendish Court have missed the little joys in life during the past several months, where even the option to go for a drink at the local pub had become a distant memory.

Cavendish Court's Pub

We have been continuing our Bowerfield Olympics theme and there have been more competitions throughout the week. We had a cake decorating competition, a ball throwing competition, a ring toss competition and much more! Team Red is currently winning against team blue by 1 point.

Bowerfield Olympics

The district nurses came to Howgate today to give our residents their annual Flu vaccinations, they said it was a lovely home and thanked the staff for all their help.

Flu Vaccination

Bowerfield Court Olympics

Throughout the month we have had Olympic activities. Our home has been split into 2 teams, a red team and a blue team. All staff on shift tomorrow for the party have been told which team they will be competing on and are going to be dressed up in their team colours.

We did Bowerfield Olympics. We had a red and a blue team, residents and staff went against each other in a number of activities. Everyone had so much fun. We enjoyed a buffet party, and celebrated a number of birthdays including a staff member turning 21.

Bowerfield Olympics

Rated Good in all areas by CQC

Abingdon Court are celebrating after being rated Good in all areas during a recent CQC inspection. As well as thanking the staff for their hard work we want to thank the residents, their friends and families and the local community who continue to support us.

Award Winner at Allingham House

Harpreet Kaur, receptionist at Allingham House was a recent winner in Maria Mallaband and Countrywide Care Home annual awards, as Hospitality Hero 2020. Through numerous votes, Harpreet was recognised as an asset to Allingham House, doing everything asked of her with a smile.

Ice Cream Van at Manorhey

Residents and staff at Manorhey, designed and made our very own ice cream van, which was then filled with a variety of different flavours cones and toppings.

Christopher’s Birthday and Illumination Switch On

At Amber Court we recently celebrated Christopher’s 29th birthday and combined it with our very own Blackpool Illuminations Switch-on party. Lunch was themed as Christopher’s favourite food - McDonalds and one of our chef’s made a McDonalds themed birthday cake.

We hosted a Macmillan coffee morning this week at The Belvedere Care Home. The residents and staff both enjoyed getting involved and raising money for a great charity.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

We love our sweet shop area at Belmont House where we have lots of the memento's from the past which the residents can enjoy whilst visiting the shop. We think it makes such a lovely display at the home for our residents who suffer from Dementia

Memento from the past

Barnes Court raises money for Macmillan

We thoroughly enjoyed our Macmillan Coffee Morning! With cake donations from our Manager and Chef we had a lovely natter and raised £57.00 in the process. Well done everyone!

September Birthday Celebrations

Happy birthday to the three M's of Rosedale. Michelle, Mercy and Maya who celebrated their birthdays together in September. We hope you had a wonderful day ladies.

Monread Lodge Care Home have been giving out goodie bags to our very hard-working Paramedics.

They were very well received and much appreciated.

Thanking our Paramedics

Willowdene Memory Walk

We've been stretching, toe tapping, swaying and singing along to some energy boosting beats!.

The Wharf Care Home

We are looking for your old football kits and boots!

Kents Hill Care Home are the proud sponsors of Aspley Guise Under 8's Stags football team. We have come together to become a donation point for all unwanted but useable sports kit that will be donated to KitAid. KitAid will send all donations over to developing countries where footbal

Willowdene Care Home on Lizards Lane, Sedgefield are delighted to announce we completed the memory walk for Alzheimers Society on Saturday 19th September. We walked from Durham to West Auckland which is approximately 14 miles and took 4 hours 15 mins and we raised £1000.

Willowdene Memory Walk

Maria Mallaband and Countrywide Coronavirus Update

Maria Mallaband and Countrywide – keeping our residents safe and connected during Covid-19.