Our stories

Peace of mind

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.

A team from Chartwell Manor Care Home joined the community of Aylesbury on Saturday 27th August for Parklife, a free annual event hosted and organised by Aylesbury Town Council. We held a traditional tombola and raised £100 for Emmett’s Genies, one of Aylesbury Town Mayor, C

Parklife Aylesbury

Cedar Court Care Home welcomed back friends from Cranleigh Baptists church for a hymn Service on Sunday. Keith brought with him a team that including some old friends and many new ones. There was a good mix of multi-national and intergenerational team members present.

Cranleigh Baptists Church Visit

Our residents painted beautiful 3 dimensional butterflies to brighten their rooms. We have an amazing amount of talent and creativity in our home.

Bright Butterflies

A trip to our local pub provided the perfect setting for a gorgeous summertime pub lunch. A few of our residents had said how they fancied a trip to the pub, so we took the minibus and did just that.

We all enjoyed delicious food and drink and had a fantastic time together!

Summertime Pub Lunch

Congratulation to our Deputy Manager, Hilary Hasson who was recently presented with her trophy by Home Manager, Michelle Wray, after winning the prestigious Deputy Manager of the Year award at the annual Maria Mallaband Care Awards last month.

Celebrating our award winning Deputy Manager

Aboriginal people have used dots in art and other forms for a long time. Dots can be seen in symbolic patterns carved on artefacts, rocks, stone and bodies. It’s thought the first form of dot art was drawn on the earth to communicate.

Aboriginal Dot Art

On speaking with our residents they expressed how dull our activities trolley looked so they decided to craft mobile decorations. What beautiful designs they've created. Our trolley is sure to be a show stopper!

Mobile Decorations For Our Trolley

Residents enjoyed a great visit to the local Petting Farm and even fed some of the animals. It was lovely to spend some time out in the local community, appreciating the animals and getting 'up close' to them.

Local petting Farm

Lostock Ukes came to play for us, the residents loved it

For the National Rice Pudding Day, our lovely residents tasted rice pudding with their favorite and selected toppings.

They shared stories on how they used to eat it when younger.

National Rice Pudding Day

On the first days of the month, the residents throw a tea party to welcome their newest doll residents.

During this tea party the dolls were named and given birth dates chosen and agreed by all the residents.

Doll Naming Ceremony

The residents had a 70's groovy love and peace party to celebrate the end of another summer week.

They entered the spirit of the party, chat, drink and laugh with each other.

70's Groovy Love and Peace Party

Tasty treats at Manorhey, our residents are doing a spot of home baking.

DARYL JOINED IN AND WAS BRILLIANT, ENTERTAINING US ALL GREAT AFTERNOON.

Afternoon Outdoors

PATTY AND LYNDA AND LENOARD HAD A GREAT TIME OUTSIDE ENJOYING THE PERFORMANCE FROM IAN FROM MUSIC IN MINDS.

The residents really enjoyed a performance of Wizard Of Oz starring Tina and Lynda read by Rachel.

Wizard Of Oz Performance

Cream teas were served from our very own bakery at the new Hope Green Cafe and residents absolutely loved spending time there with their relatives. Alongside the traditional teas and coffees, sparkling lemon and mint drinks were popular as the temperatures soared and the sun shone.

Hope Green Cafe

A bit of physical activity took place today having had reserved energy through out the heat wave. Tennis being the sport of choice, whether mobile or seated our lovely residents appeared to enjoy a match.

Coplands Care Home Manager Elisabeta Mzhika has celebrated becoming a double award winner this year after recently winning at the inaugural Brent Adult Social Care Awards.

Celebrating our Double Award Winner Elisabeta Mzhika

Earlier this week we were very lucky to celebrate a very special birthday with our lovely resident Hilda who turned 102! We all would like to wish a very happy birthday to Hilda!

Happy Birthday Hilda

We would all like to say a huge welcome to Simona, our new nurse completed her probation today. Another successful addition to Kingsbury team.

Welcome to the Team

A warm welcome to Lloyd Wint our new activities manager who is doing a great job here at Furze Hill Lodge.

Welcome to Lloyd

Every week we have a baking club where we create different treats. This week we all decided to make chocolate rice krispies cakes for everyone to enjoy with their afternoon tea.

Weekly Baking Club

This morning our residents made fat balls with bird seed and nuts and mixed it up with lard to make bird feeders for our gardens. Later we took the fat balls outside to put in the bird feeders.

Create your own fat balls...

Every Wednesday we have our happy hour where there is a choice of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks offered to all of our residents.

Some friends of one of our residents asked if they could come and visit her as a surprise so our amazing catering manager Tracey decided it would be a lovely idea to provide everyone with a beautiful tasty afternoon tea.

Surprise Afternoon Tea

We love supporting and visiting our local community so we planned a trip to our local café. Nice Pie in Old Dalby is a few miles from us so we went to enjoy a nice pot of tea, spot of lunch and of course a slice of cake.

Off for Tea and Cake

It was so special to be apart of a 100th birthday celebration for someone living with us at our home. We arranged a special cake from all of us to be brought as a surprise and decorated her room. Having the Queens card arrive was so special for her too. What a lovely day.

100th Birthday Celebration

The people living at Brunel wanted to have a wine and cheese tasting evening. The lifestyle team were only too happy to create a platters with a range of cheeses from Mild cheddar to the stronger cheeses like Stilton.

Wine and Cheese Afternoon

We can’t get enough of Boonies Pet Therapy. Twice a month different animals come to join us and visit the wonderful people who live here at River View. This always sparks wonderful reminiscing stories.

Boonies Pet Therapy

As we have an adverse weather warning the heat is getting to many of us, however we remain positive and continue to smile. Keep a thought to the people working in heat.

There are things you can do to help:

1. Keep curtains closed and lights off when possible,

Tips For The Heat

Beautiful trip on the union canal in July. It may have been a damp day but it certainly didn’t dampen our spirits.

Union Canal Trip

We had a wonderful trip out to the pub in August and enjoyed sitting outside and having a couple of drinks.

Some of our residents went on a wee impromtu trip to The Milk Barn for ice cream on Sunday 3rd July. It was a lovely day so Aaron and Sam thought it would be good to visit the Barn . The residents loved it, just outside Falkirk set in the countryside The Barn is a great place to visit.

The Milk Barn Visit

Thorntree residents had a wee cruise on the union canal on Tuesday 19th July. The crew were great made us feel very welcome. Lots of great pictures. We even saw a family of swans. The residents loved it. Out in the fresh air, great company, good day all round.

Cruise Along The Canal

Memory spinners with Scottish opera in St. Columbus church Glasgow, after 8 weeks of training the show was ready for the performance in front of family and friends. What a show it was .. everything looked amazing and all came together to a standing ovation.

Memory spinners with Scottish opera

Parksprings 3 musketeers, our new project to keep busy and make a difference . The Summer house went up when Covid first started and was purchased with money we raised to replace the old worn out band stand . We have since fund raised and bought nice furniture for inside with plants and lights.

Parksprings Project

We celebrated Carers Day at Yohden Care Complex in June. We wanted to make the day as special as our team so we organised a party and some gift bags for them. Thank you for all you do. You are amazing.

We had an afternoon of pizza making in July. We chose the base and selected the topping and our wonderful kitchen team cooked them for us. They were delicious and we had them for tea.

Pizza Making at Yohden

Here are some of our lovely Carer’s celebrating “MMCG Carers Appreciation Day “ at Willowdene they all received certificate’s a pen and enjoyed cup cakes a lovely morning was had by all.

Thank you for all you do each and everyday at Willowdene.

MMCG Carers Appreciation Day

Our residents congratulating Sarah our administrator on her receiving her award at the Maria Mallaband care awards. Massive congratulations from all of us.

Congratulations Sarah

A huge thank you Julie our Community Champion at Tesco Catterick for the wonderful treat for our residents. Julie popped in with ice lollies to cool down our residents on this hot summers day.

Community Champion at Tesco

We are delighted to announce that Carmen Lewis and Laura Tompkins have achieved a place on the 2022/2023 Care Practitioner course.

We know they will be amazing. Such a fantastic achievement. Well done ladies.

Care Practitioner Course

Happy 66th wedding anniversary to Audrey and Ken we hope you have had a lovely day love from everyone at Rose Lodge. Ken is our wonderful resident who designs and creates our patio garden at the home every year for his wonderful wife Audrey who always loved her garden before she moved into

Audrey and Ken's 66th Wedding Anniversary

We held our summer fayre in July at Rose Lodge Care Home and enjoyed setting up all of the stalls including a bottle bag stall where you could win a bottle of wine or water, tombola stall cake stall and hook a duck and some amazing raffle prizes which were donated to the home. Our residents

Summer Fayre at Rose Lodge

We had so much fun designing and trying the games out for our Summer Fayre in August. Making sure they all worked as we planned and giving us lots of practice before the summer fayre. We hope it will be lovely weather for us to raise some money for a good cause.

We had a lovely afternoon creating our own pizza’s to enjoy in the garden with the sun. We had a lovely afternoon adding tomato sauce to the base and deciding on our own toppings before they went into the oven. They were delicious and we sat outside in the garden to enjoy them and the

We wanted to do something a little different at the home in July to enjoy the sun we were having so decided to have a Hawaiian Island themed party at the home. We brought out the paddling pool, dressed the garden and had such a lovely afternoon.

Hawaiian Island Party

We had a very special birthday in July when Mary celebrated her 90th birthday with us. As always we had cake’s and a singsong and made the day as special as possible for Mary. She had such a lovely day celebrating with the residents before a visit with her family.

Mary's 90th Birthday

We have enjoyed having our entertainers back into the home in July with a spot of gentle Thai Chi on an afternoon. We have enjoyed relearning all of the moves and this gentle exercise is good for our coordination too.

Thai Chi Afternoon