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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.

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

Some of our ladies joined a virtual coffee morning and thoroughly enjoyed seeing and listening/speaking to other people outside of our home. What a lovely way to connect with the community!

Virtual Coffee Morning

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

Chicks at Bowerfield Court

Mother's Day was a very special day at Allingham House , the residents could speak with their families by phones and videocalls meanwhile received cards and presents from them.

Mother's Day at Allingham

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

Here at Highfield Care Home we were really excited to celebrate Mother’s Day! All the Mothers enjoyed many flowers and cards from their children and loved ones.

Mother's Day Celebrations

As it was Mother’s Day we thought we would celebrate with a wine and cheese party. All the residents were very excited as we had been making beautiful art work to display on this special occasion. Everyone enjoyed the day with singing and dancing.

Mother's Day Celebrations

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general.

St Patrick's Day Celebrations

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.

Mothering Sunday at Manorhey was lovely, we enjoyed an afternoon tea with cakes, sandwiches and scones with cream and jam and tea served in china. All mums here and including Grandmas received beautiful cards, gifts and flowers which really did make their day special.

Mother's Day at Manorhey

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

Celebrating Mother's Day with afternoon tea for our 4 special mums.

Mother's Day Celebrations

We have a lot of talented people living at Wyndham Hall and the regular craft sessions are always a favourite.

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

Mother's Day was an absolute delight for our 'Mums' here at Wyndham Hall, flowers and cards galore and our residents loved every minute of the day.

Mother's Day Celebrations

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.

A special day was held at Ashmead for International Women’s Day. All female residents were treated to wonderfully presented chocolate treats, whilst several of the staff dressed in traditional clothing for the residents to enjoy.

International Woman's Day

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

A wonderful day had by all at Kents Hill Care Home; flower arranging was one of the activities for Mothers Day. Some fantastic displays/ centre pieces to enjoy.

Mothers Day Flowers

This gentleman was residing at Kents Hill Care Home during the pandemic whilst he awaited a self contained, independent apartment. Kents Hill recently dropped off a 'good luck' discharge hamper to him and were pleased to hear that he was settling into his new life just fine; he was very tha

Good Luck Trevor

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 residents at Kents Hill Care Home enjoyed a traditional meal for Spam Appreciation Week; Spam fritters, chips and beans. It was enjoyed by many

Spam Appreciation Week

Today we had a go at making bread in a bag. We had great fun with the dough squeezing and trying to get it all to come together. Took a while but residents did enjoy. We chatted about home baking and all the things they used to bake at home.

Bread Making at Thorntree Mews

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

International Women’s Day is a day that celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women all over the world whilst also calling for equality - where men and women are treated the same.

International Woman's Day

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

We celebrated Alice's 105th Birthday at Troutbeck. Alice was still doing yoga at 100 years old. Congratulations to Alice on such a marvellous age.

Alice's 105th Birthday

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

Today we decided as spring is nearly here that we would create our very own take on it. We created these stunning rainbow daffodils; everyone chose how to decorate them and create very beautiful flowers.

Spring Flowers!

We decided today we would have a day of imagination art; I gave the residents numerous items to use whilst using their imagination to create their very own artwork.

Imagination Art

One of our residents received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from her husband which she was so thrilled about.

We love celebrating birthdays at Acorn House and it's just as well as we have five to celebrate this month, everyone liked the idea of this one and chocolate muffins are a favourite of Kathleen's whose birthday it is today.

Birthday Celebrations

Day to day activities at Parkview are varied and down to individual choice, some people enjoy a mind game, quoits or even bubbles which are magical whatever age you are.

Day to Day Activities At Parkview

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