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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.

Today we celebrated ancillary day with our team at Ashfield Court . A lovely cake and fun afternoon for staff and our residents, plus a gift from MMCG.

Ancillary Day at Ashfield
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We had a huge celebration here at Clarendon Court, our resident Florence Hynes was 100 years old. Florence had a celebration outside on the patio with family and friends with lots of cake and a buffet. A very special day for a very special lady.

Florence's 100th Birthday
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MMCG will shortly be rolling out its Lifestyle Programme across the group, the overarching goal of which is to provide flexible, personalised lifestyle opportunities to meet the needs of the mind, body, and soul of every individual in our homes.

The first look at MMCG’s Lifestyle Programme
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We are delighted to confirm that we are developing nine new care homes as part of our ambitious new build programme that’s already well underway. The current pipeline extends over the next three to four years with several homes in planning and development phases.

Lace Hill Manor, new home currently being built to launch in February 2022
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MMCG’s recent Leadership Conference was deemed a great success and the time and input of all who attended was greatly appreciated.

MMCG Conference lays the foundations for future success
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Recently we saw our latest home, Windsor Court, finally opening its doors in July! After months of hard work and £8 million of construction, we were finally able to welcome visitors, guests and those who have chosen to move in with us.

Opening of Windsor Court
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This month we have also been celebrating the success of Jo Stokes, a member of our Support Team and a Trainee Nursing Associate, who has been selected to become an Ambassador for Health Education England!

Jo Stokes becomes Ambassador for Health Education England
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Last month we were delighted to welcome two new starters to the group’s senior management team – Laura Finlay and Daniel Turner-Naylor.

Welcome to the team Laura and Daniel
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We’re delighted to share that Kier Dungo, Regional Director at MMCG, has successfully completed his first 2 modules for Global Leadership & Management, gaining some of the highest grades in his cohort.

Regional Director, Kier Dungo celebrates academic achievements
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For the first time, we introduced the inaugural MMCG Carers Appreciation Day, for which we celebrated all of our amazing carers that play a vital role in ensuring each of our homes is a warm and welcoming place to live in.

Carers Appreciation Day
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One of the heartwarming stories of this year at MMCG was the amazing friendship between schoolboy Harry Evans and Howgate House member George Spiby, 65.

Harry & George
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One of our more artistic nurses, Lynn Bell, gave her colleagues a superhero-style boost by depicting them all in an amazing ‘caped-crusader’ gallery inspired by the collective spirit and superhuman effort seen from the team throughout the pandemic.

Superhero Tributes at Park Springs
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Our Cowboy Party at Allingham House was a brilliant day for both staff and residents. The barbecue was great and the kitchen staff were amazing!! Staff and residents enjoyed, burgers, sausages and salad, drinks were also provided.

Cowboy Party
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The residents were delighted to do the lavender harvesting in the garden, while they were sharing happy memories and reminiscing. They enjoyed the smell, the colour, and the the tactile of the plants, a completely sensory stimulation experience!

Lavender Harvesting
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What a great time we had at Hope Green putting together Memory Boxes. As we spent time exploring things that were important to us, memories came flooding into our minds and conversations flowed too.

Memory Boxes
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As the summer draws to a close at Hope Green we decided to spend some time watching and listening in the garden.

Buddleia & Butterflies
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In our art class we have residents who really excel, Joseph wanted to continue the jungle theme and came up with this elephant and tiger, which we all agree, he did an excellent job. Now thinking of his next subject, watch this space.

Art Class
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Our bank holiday theme was a French Fun Day, we had games and music dressing up for the part, and lots of cheese, wine and french fancy cakes.

Bank Holiday Fun
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Here’s our very own Margaret who showed her talent in making the head dress for the Amber Court's Fiesta. Look at how she sampled her work!

Margaret's Design
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The Ladies (Joan on the right and Christine on the left) at Amber Court has been very busy making the head dress before our Amber Court Fiesta event.

Head Dress Making
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Here's our Amber Court staff, Hannah, Camille and Alice who entertained our residents with the Traditional Filipino"Tinikling" (bamboo dance) and the "Pandango sa ilaw" (Candle dance).

Traditional Dances
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Our talented staff and residents put efforts on our upcoming event even our coconut trees backdrop was handmade. Look how busy they are! And how fantastic our backdrop is!

Designing Our Backdrop
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One of our residents, alongside the activity staff, has made a memory box. In the memory box contained items that Oliver felt was personal to him but also things that gave us an insight to Oliver's life and past.

Memory Box
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Our ladies enjoyed having their nails done and choosing their favourite colour shades.

Pamper Time at Ashfield Court
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Carnival Day at Ashmead proved to be a most enjoyable and colourful day for everyone at Ashmead.

Carnival Day
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The recipe books were out at Ashmead recently during a cake baking session when the people living at Ashmead joined the Activities team in baking cakes. All hygienic measures were practised and the past and present culinary skills of the residents concerned were clearly highlighted.

Cake Baking Session
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The residents had a really good time creating hand by hand with family and friends beautiful memory boxes. I would like to thank you all for the great response received and the amazing time that the residents have enjoyed reminiscing and sharing happy memories.

Memory Boxes
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The residents joined last month to the celebrations of World Photo Day. The residents really enjoyed taking pictures of another resident in their favourite places all around Allingham House.

World Photo Day
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Staff and residents loved the ice cream van great to finish the day off.

Ice Cream Van
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Patty, Chelsea, Jean and Owen enjoyed the party and loved the food drinks which was Malibu and pineapple juice and just pineapple juice. Everyone thought the party was fabulous.

Party at Alexandra
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Rosemary and Jean enjoying the  Hawaiian photo frame lots of lovely photos.

Hawaiian Photo Frame
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Winners of our quiz, drawing and pass the coconut from our  Hawaiian party.

Winners
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We have been doing a number of crafts at Troutbeck including personalized button bags and silohette pictures. Residents have thoroughly enjoyed the crafting.

Arts and Crafts
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We had an afternoon of 'Play Your Cards Right' wow, not as easy as you think, don't think the cards were kind to us today, but we had lots of fun and plenty of laughs along the way.

Play Your Cards Right
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Today residents are enjoying a ‘Teddy Bear picnic’ complete with hand crafted teddy bears and a beautiful China tea set.

Teddy Bear Picnic
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It's always a joy to get together at Hope Green and watch how our creativity emerges. Positive comments to each other, new found talents and new topics of conversation all joined together this week in our 'Let's Get Creative' session. We're already looking forward to the next one!

Let's Get Creative
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The staff at Hope Green were delighted with the amazing hamper made by one of our resident's family members as a token of appreciation for the care the team provided mum with. Thank you from everyone at the team at Hope Green.

Hamper
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Some of those living with us at Buckingham House enjoyed a lovely trip out to a local garden centre in Bourne End recently.

Garden Centre Trip
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Congratulations to Amita Gurung who has recently completed the Care Practitioner Programme

Congratulations Amita
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Raj and Julie from our activities team were proud to host the Knights Court Annual Tea Party on Saturday 21st August. After a month of planning we were so happy it was a huge success.

Annual Tea Party
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As July came around, our home was hit with a case of Olympic fever.

Olympic Fever
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In the spirit of France and to celebrate Bastille Day, we tried our hand at baking our own French patisserie in the form of Macarons!

Patisserie Masterclass - Macarons
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As part of our Summer Armchair Travel series, we all boarded Abingdon Airlines to take a tour of France!

Abingdon Airlines departing to France!
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As we begin to transition from Summer into the Autumn months, another special occasion is upon us. It’s time to celebrate those who are often the unsung heroes of the team here at MMCG. So, Wednesday 1st September will be the very first Ancillary Day!

Proudly Launching Ancillary Day at MMCG
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Friday 20th August at Belmont House Care Home we hosted a very special event, Bradlee Whittaker, a health care assistant at Belmont House Braved the Shave for Macmillan cancer support. Special guests, the Mayor and the Mayoress of Harrogate took part in the afternoons entertainments. We

Brave The Shave at Belmont
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This afternoon’s activity was pizza tasting. We had a variety of flavours such as chorizo and anchovies, they were very tasty.

Pizza Tasting
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At a recent painting session, themed on the changing colours of Autumn , everyone had fun painting trees and some of our group even mixed it up a bit by adding buttons, with spectacular results.

As Autumn Approaches -Tree Painting
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We recently all celebrated the birthday of the lovely Connie, who was so amazed by her cake and was super grateful it brought her to tears. Sometimes it’s the small things that makes peoples day and we all had a fantastic day celebrating.

Happy Birthday Connie
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We celebrated Lillians 100th Birthday on the 13th August, she had family visiting and a lovely party with friends at Troutbeck.



 

Lillian's 100th Birthday
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Hope Green love to celebrate Birthdays together and last week one of our residents celebrated with a wonderful session of Singing Together. Waving pom poms to the music, choosing favourite songs, reminiscing together and enjoying friendships made the day complete.

Birthday at Hope Green
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