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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.

This month at Acorn House we have welcomed 2 students from Blackburn College for a 2 week placement, Seerat and Demi. They are both studying their Health and Social Care NVQ. They will be working alongside our Lifestyle Team to support our residents with communal activities.

Students at Acorn House

We had a wonderful time making no bake cheesecakes. We had blueberry, strawberry and vanilla. Teamwork made for laughter as our residents worked together helping each other finish their tasks.

No Bake Cheesecake Making

We celebrated International Nurses Day in our lounge with people living with us and staff. Our fantastic nurses each got a certificate, bottle of wine and other gifts. Our amazing kitchen team created some Blue and White cup cakes, which tasted lovely.

International Nurses Day

The nurses at Kingsbury Court were surprised with a small party today to celebrate them and to say a huge thank you for all they do. It was so lovely to have been able to keep the secret from them until the day itself and treat them as they all do such a fantastic job for us.

International Nurses Day

We wanted to do something special to celebrate the amazing nurses that we have at Buckingham House care home. We all met outside for some refreshments and the home manager gave each of our nurses a gift to thank them for all the incredible work that they do.

International Nurses Day

In honour of Florence Nightingale, we had a small gathering and celebration for our nurses at Cedar Court this afternoon. As a Registered General Nurse and also being our Regional Director, we also had our special guest, Petra join us for the same.

International Nurses Day

International Nurses Day, such an important day when we celebrate all the amazing work all nurses do day in day out.
We are so lucky to have exceptionally dedicated nurses working with us and today we would like to recognise them and thank them for all they do!

International Nurses Day

How lovely to be a winner in the MMCG Regional Easter Competition with our fantastic wreath which was lovingly created by our residents. Proudly displayed here by Enid

MMCG Regional Easter Competition

We were delighted to be the Easter cake winner in week 2 at the home when our wonderful kitchen team created this award winning cake for the competition. Our residents created the display for the cake to sit amongst.

Easter Cake Winner

We were delighted when Deputy Provost Tom Castle came to plant the Queen’s Jubilee tree at Parksprings in the garden. We had a piper and a buffet afterwards for the residents to enjoy. We chose a Platinum orange tree for the Queens platinum celebrations as we thought this fit in brill

Queens Jubilee Tree Planting at Parksprings

Our Chef Scott has done an amazing job of our Easter Cake this year which we sent in for the regional competition. It tasted delicious.

We had a visit from the Easter bunny in April who came to deliver all of the Easter eggs for the residents at the home. Our Easter bunny even met some school children and was featured in the local publication “In Your Area”.

Visit From the Easter Bunny

Thorntree Mews is definitely feeling the love. Our relatives are amazing .We received this lovely donation of chocolate for all the staff as a Thank you for looking after our residents so well.

Thank You Gifts

We had a busy Easter at the home with arts and crafts, baking and a beautiful Easter Sunday buffet. We also enjoyed some entertainment at the home today to get us into the Easter spirit and had a lovely singalong.

Easter at Willowbank

This month, the Regional Hero recognition is awarded to the exceptional team at White Rose Lodge.

Regional Hero Recognition Award

We would like to announce that White Rose Lodge has been officially nominated for a Care Home of the Year in the annual MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards.

Care Awards Nomination

More fun at Willowdene In April when we enjoyed afternoon tea for the Queens 96th birthday we had a sing a long and a quiz about Royalty with some hilarious answers from the residents. We had such a great day and hoped the Queen had as much fun as we did.

Queens Birthday Celebrations at Willowdene

We’ve planted a cherry tree for the Queens Platinum Jubilee 2022.

We were delighted that John Wilkinson, who is the husband of one of our residents, said it was an absolute honour to do this for us.

Queens Jubilee Tree Planting

We are delighted to present our entry into the MMCG and Countrywide Easter competition created by our brilliant Chef John at the home.

If this is not a winning entry I don't know what is. Hasn't he done an incredible job?

The Moors Easter Entry

Residents, colleagues and relatives had a wonderful afternoon last week when Rishi Sunak, MP of Richmondshire and our Chairman and Founder of Maria Mallaband Care, Phil Burgan, visited our newly refurbished Lodge at Rosedale Care Home.

Visit From Rishi Sunak

We would like to thank all the staff and visitors for all their support with our Easter raffle we raised £121 for our residents funds.

Easter Raffle at Rose Lodge

This morning we tasted a selection of herbs and spices, and discussed their use in food preparation and seasoning.

Herb and Spice Tasting Session

Taylors of Harrogate have kindly donated this wonderful selection of Yorkshire Tea to be one of our raffle prizes for our next Garden Party. Let's hope the weather is as generous.

Raffle Prize Donations

Thank you to Emma from Spa Shop on Lowther Street who donated £200 worth of Easter flowers for our ladies who live in the home. They had such a wonderful surprise when our Manager and Lifestyle Coordinatored dropped by with various boxes and bouquets from you.

Easter Flower Donation

There was lots of Easter activity in the home this year. We started with arts and crafts and making our own bonnets and then on Easter Sunday one of the team dressed up as the Easter bunny and delivered our eggs for us. We had a lovely buffet in the afternoon with some party games with

Easter at Field View

The Croft bar opened in April and we were delighted when a friend of the home, Mark, came into the home with a wonderful new sign for the bar he had created. Mark said “it was for a great cause and he wanted to help”. Thank you so much Mark.

Joy and Jade have been putting their Oomph exercises into practice today with our residents on Oak. They played 60’s and 70’s music starting off gently before finishing with a bit of Tina Turner.

We are delighted to share with you our Decision Tree which our Dementia Ambassador, Meghan at Corinthian House has created.

The decision tree enables our residents, families and friends in the decisions that we make about the home.

A massive thank you to these lovely ladies Annette and Natalie from the local Sainsburys supermarket for their donation of eggs for our lovely residents at Belmont in April. They were delighted to receive the Easter Eggs and appreciated being thought of by the local community.

Easter Egg Donation

In April we celebrated the Queen’s 96th birthday at Belmont House. We had a huge party at the home with flags, birthday cake and some music whilst we reminisced about our memories of the Queen, the family weddings and street parties and where the sad goodbye of Prince Phillip.

The Queens Birthday Celebrations

Our chef Christine took some time out to help our lifestyle Coordinator and residents to make a fruit cake, we made enough mixture for cupcakes and a huge sponge. There was lots of involvement from our residents and staff, lots of laughs and flour everywhere.

Easter Cake at Astor

He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide and many of the people living with us Monread Lodge enjoyed spending time remembering this legendary singer.

Celebrating Frank Sinatra

Tea parties were enjoyed by everyone for the Queens birthday. Residents enjoyed singing the national anthem and waving their flags proudly.

Queens Party at Manorhey

We had a lovely time celebrating the Queens birthday in the sunshine, our residents enjoyed ice cream treats with music and games.

Queen's Birthday Celebrations

To celebrate Shakespeare day we made our very own ruff's. Here is one beautifully modelled by our very own Enid

Shakespeare Day

Allan received his trophy today on behalf of Howgate House.

Residents, colleagues and managers alike couldn't be prouder.

Looking forward to the next competition. Well done Allan, well deserved!

Well Done Allan

We had a very special first visit from Chip the Therapy Dog and his owner this week and it was a great success with residents who were delighted to spend some time with him. It created a real 'buzz' along the corridors as Chip explored the home and sought out new faces to meet.

Pet Therapy is a great success at Hope Green!

We would like to wish her Majesty a very Happy and Healthy Birthday.

Thank you for your continuous support and for looking over us.

We will all celebrate this day with you also.

Happy Birthday Your Majesty

Staff from Pinewood visited the children and staff on Robin Ward at Jersey Hospital to donate a selection of Easter eggs

Special Easter Delivery at Jersey Hospital

The meaning of being a mother is virtually endless. A mother is a protector, disciplinarian, and friend. A mother is a selfless and often makes many sacrifices for the wants and needs of her children.

Celebrating Mother's Everywhere

We hope that you all had a wonderful Easter weekend

Easter Celebrations at Wyndham Hall

Congratulations to Angie for winning The Westbourne's Easter raffle prize.

Easter Raffle Prize Winner

Our sweet shop was open for business

Manorhey's Sweet Shop

As part of our garden party we had an original Daily Mail copy of the coronation from 1953 and also a copy of the illustrated London news which contains amazing pictures from the Queens life.

Daily Mail From 1953

We celebrated the Queens birthday by Planting a tree for the Queens Green Canopy initiative, created to mark Her Majesty's Platinum jubilee which invites people from across the nation to plant a tree for the jubilee, we chose a flowering Cherry.

Queen's Birthday Celebrations at Troutbeck

Clarendon Court are over the moon to have won the Regional Easter Decoration Competition! There was lots of team work by staff and the residents to produce this beautiful Easter Wreath. Well done Clarendon Court!

Clarendon Court Won!

Here at Birch Heath our residents got creative for Easter they made some daffodils and also created a wreath for the front door. In the main reception we created a cherry blossom arch and an Easter forest.

Easter Creations at Birch Heath Lodge

Alexandra court certainly made a lovely Easter display for residents, families and staff to enjoy. We had lots of lovely comments from visitors!

Well done Alexandra Court who are the runner up in the regional Easter decoration competition.

Alexandra Court's Easter Display

We celebrated The Queen's 96th birthday with tea and cream and jam scones followed by a great sing a long!

The Queens Birthday Celebrations

Everyone love Queens Elizabeth, so in celebration of the Queen's Birthday we did a tea party, with delicious treats cooked by our kitchen team.

Manorhey Celebrates The Queens Birthday