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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.

We took some of the people living with us on the mini bus to Eaton. We went to Bating Lake, the fish pond and then over to the cafe for some refreshments. After we decided to have a walk all around the park where one of the residents saw a herring, which was fascinating to watch.

Trip to Bating Lake

We decided to play games in the garden because it was such a lovely warm day. I started with one resident and ended with lots of people because we were having so much fun. It is a very simple activity with a parachute and a very soft ball which we were all trying not to drop.

Games in the Garden

We had a lovely visit from ”Tiny Farm” and we were absolutely thrilled to be able to spend an afternoon cuddling our new furry friends. We cannot wait to invite them again for some more pet therapy.

Tiny Farm Visit

Celebrating special moments with the people who live with us is so important. The lovely couple below celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary, they dined in the restaurant for lunch and had a little trip down memory lane and received some chocolates from the whole team.

Special Moments

We were only too happy when asked, to organise a birthday party for someone living at the home to celebrate in the garden. It was such a pleasure to be able to decorate a space and provide some refreshments for such a special day.

Birthday celebrations

Earlier this week our residents enjoyed going to the church for lunch where they celebrated with the community the Queen’s jubilee. Food was 5/5 and they can’t wait to go back!

Jubilee Lunch at Local Church

The people living at Gateford Hill found the children from a local pre school to be so uplifting on their recent visit. It triggered so many lovely memories of when their children were little.

Pre School Visit

Sharon and the Elstead Committee who organised the local Jubilee Party extended an invitation to the people who are living at Bridge House Care Home. We were delighted to be invited to the local party to celebrate with people living in the area.

Elstead Community Jubilee Party

VE Day preparations were underway at Hope Greens Craft Club where residents were making red white and blue hanging basket arrangements, craft jars, and displays around the home.

VE Day Preparations

Hope Green are a great team and this week the manager initiated a Bacon Butty Friday morning for all staff to enjoy. To add to this there was a delivery of gifts too which will be handed out over the following days to staff members as an appreciation of all their continued hard work.

Team Appreciation

Yesterday our lovely residents fancied a spot of baking.

Making shortbread shapes seemed to be the popular choice with the best bit being making dough balls and rolling ,I am sure you can imagine the fun in the flour clouds!

A lovely morning and yummy treats had by all.

Shortbread Baking

Emergency Service and Key Workers Event

Our residents made some lovely chocolate rice crispy cakes together with us in the morning to have for their afternoon tea.

Rice Crispy Cakes

To Celebrate HMs Platinum Jubilee Birch Heath Lodge held a party in appreciation of the Queen. Families were invited to the event and the day was eagerly anticipated by everyone. The Party commenced with George Croiala who entertained us with his piano.

Platinum Jubilee at Birch Heath

Some wonderful photos from our celebrations of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee here at Kings Court

After weeks spent designing, colouring, painting and sticking together our home made decorations we were able to display them all with great pride at our garden party.

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

As everyone was busy celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee over the bank holiday weekend, River View waited until Tuesday 7th so more of our family members were able to join in the celebrations with everyone living here.

The Queens Jubilee Party

We were excited to have a vintage car visit! It was a beautiful car and some even went for a quick spin in the sunshine. Alongside our other activities it was a very full day.

More Jubilee Fun

We had a brilliant day with our residents celebrating The Queens Jubilee. Everyone loved our outdoor party with our buffet, entertainment, refreshments and a tombola. We also had a visit from our mayoress.

Queens Jubilee Celebrations

As the season goes warmer each day, we took the opportunity to have our residents spend at least an hour a day outside. This day, Geoffrey, Roy and Margaret took time to savour the warmth of the sun and fresh air filled their body. It was indeed a good sunny day

Hope Green celebrated in style together surrounded by red white and blue for a special Jubilee afternoon. What a wonderful and joyful time we had! Music playing gently in the background, fresh flowers on the tables picked from our beautiful gardens and our very best tea sets.

Jubilee Afternoon Tea Delights

Pup day is our most popular activity, who could resist our sweet pups Tia, and Rocky. Nothing fills our hearts like those smiles of joy we see when our residents get to hold, pet and love our sweet four legged volunteers.

Jubilee Saturday was a beautiful day and we had a family and friends BBQ. Our home was hopping with visitors and yummy food. We had burgers, sausages, chicken with all of the fixings and an amazing dessert buffet.

Bowerfield Court Celebrates The Jubilee

Our residents commemorated the jubilee by painting some lovely rocks for a surround for our “plant a tree for the Jubilee” lilac. We watched the Thanksgiving service and the original coronation. Our residents also enjoyed a concert in honour of the queen.

Our quiz afternoon started with true or false, the residents loved it and wanted to play again.

We also played a quiz with different facts.

One of our residents celebrated her 100th birthday this week.

We set up a cream tea for herself, daughter and granddaughter to enjoy in the sunshine under the gazebo

100th Birthday at The Westbourne

We decorated our reception area with a lot of buntings. Also, we made a memory tree for the queen which consists of photos of the queen throughout Her reign. This tree was built with the help of our residents and staff.

Queen Elizabeth’s Memory Tree

Amber Court is honoured to be part of this spectacular celebration for the Queen. As part of the celebration, we planted a tree to commemorate our Queen’s 70 years in the throne.

Tree Planting for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Our residents played a few matches of dominoes against each other, it was a very competitive game for our residents.

On the 1st of June as part of International Milk Day, our residents tasted different flavours and types of milk.

We also played a game, to try to guess the flavour of the milk .

International Milk Day

This week we were delighted to receive a visit from Natalya, who is a local Body Shop Consultant trained to provide hand/arm massages. It was wonderful to see residents being pampered with sensory sessions - a real delight to the senses!

Hope Green Links With The Local Community

The people living with us really enjoy the ‘Sing & Smile’ event we hosted this afternoon. We do this every week and we even have relatives who come in each week to join in the fun! I just love to see the happy, smiling faces.

The people living with us at Gateford Hill Care Home had a fantastic time celebrating the Queens Jubilee with a street party. There were plenty of fun and smiles and the Queen was there in attendance.

Queens Jubilee Party

Cavendish Court celebrated in style her majesty’s Platinum jubilee lots of celebrations and happy memories. Splendid afternoon tea enjoyed by all.

Cavendish Court Celebrates Jubilee

What a spectacular day we had Friday 3rd June for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The rain held off, the sun was shining and the people living with us had an opportunity to celebrate with their loved ones.

To celebrate the Queen's Jubilee we hosted a "Royal Afternoon Tea". More than 100 guests attending our afternoon and we are very thankful for all the lovely comments from our Residents, their relatives and all other guests that attended our event.

Queen's Jubilee

We celebrated our Queen's Jubilee by hosting our very own Water Royd garden party. The event was supported by lots of people who wanted celebrate with their loved ones. We had a 5-piece band perform for us, everyone enjoyed a good old singalong and boogie with the band.

Jubilee Celebrations

We started the Jubilee Celebrations in Cedar Court by creating crowns in our arts and craft activity and putting together a memory board of the Queen, along with our residents very fond memories. This was guarded by our Royal Guard in honour of special guest, Queen Elizabeth II

Jubilee Celebrations

What a wonderful weekend we had.

Resident and our staff enjoy music and we organised a Royal Tea Party and enjoyed a variety of delicious cakes and scones.

Jubilee Celebration

Jubilee Day preparation was in full swing at The Hawthorns as we decorated cup cakes for our Jubilee Party. This took lots of concentration which made the room silent and took some time to do but everyone loved it. They looked and tasted so good.

Cupcake Decorating

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee was celebrated in splendour and style at Knights Court Nursing Home with a royal garden party.

PLATINUM JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

Brunel House celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee House with a garden party. Not only did the weather stay dry for our special event, but it was such a joy to celebrate with families and friends of the people living with us.

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Garden Party

Our wonderful residents enjoyed having their photograph taken with our fantastic Queen

Photos With The Queen

Steven, our wonderful assistant chef proudly displaying his Platinum Jubilee Pudding.

We can most definitely confirm that is was delicious, a very worthy winner!

Jubilee Lunch at Clarendon Court

Our staff were ready to celebrate the wonderful occasion all dressed in red white and blue

Clarendon's Royal Celebrations

At Acorn House we celebrated the Jubilee with lots of lovely cakes and party food. It was a real royal celebration enjoyed by all.

Royal Celebrations at Acorn House

Here at Howgate House we soaked up the atmosphere , we had music, ate and drank and was merry.

Children played ,families spent quality time together in celebration of Her Majesty.

Our sweet shop, burgers and hotdogs, and the ice cream stand went down a treat!

Jubilee Weekend at Howgate House

As part of our celebration for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we invited a local ice cream vendor to visit our home and let our residents enjoy the ice cream he sells. All the staff and residents enjoyed this kind treat.

Ice Cream Van Visit

Platinum Punch and Royal Spritz were available from our Jubilee Cocktail Bar alongside a lovely Royal Quiz. Some residents were very competitive whilst others just soaked up the atmosphere, as there was something for everyone. Cupcakes added to a scrumptious surprise!

Jubilee Cocktail Bar

The manager of Hope Green spent time alongside residents over the Jubilee holidays and helped to create a beautiful Tree of Celebration.

Platinum Jubilee Tree of Celebration

Our jubilee celebrations were off to a cracking start, we watched the trooping of the guard and had a real laugh making crowns. We spent the day reminiscing and remembering celebrations over the years.

Jubilee Celebrations at Bowerfield Court