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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.

There's nothing like a pamper session with aromatherapy oils especially during the current circumstances. We are lucky at Kents Hill Care Home to have our activities coordinator on the Dementia Suite who is qualified in hand massage and aromatherapy oils.

Pamper Sessions at Kents Hill

Here at Willowdene Care Home we will be clapping for all of the carers at Maria Mallaband and Countrywide at 8pm along with other care workers in social care and NHS. Every Thursday night, Ruth Sunter, Manager at Willowdene Care Home on Lizards Lane stands outside her house and claps f

Clap for Carers

Here is a link to our latest newsletter featuring pictures and information from a range of activities that residents have recently enjoyed.

Parkview's Newsletter

A big thank you to all the people who are donating face masks, alcohol gel and face shields in the local community.

A big thank you

Sending our appreciation to Wallingford School for donating us face shields. Thanks to Debbie, Alice and Johnny who have helped with packing the items and delivering them to us.

Thank You Wallingford School

Easter at Cedar Court has always been a special time. We would normally have a big Easter bonnet contest but due to the current times we have been unable to hold the events, but it didn't stop us from celebrating Easter.

Easter at Cedar Court

Garden Hill of St Michaels Avenue in South Shields were so thankful to receive a delivery of hand sanitizer for the staff from Bob Singh and the Washington Volunteers.

Thank you for your welcomed donation.

Garden Hill Supplies

Community Spirit is certainly living and breathing in the North East. We received a very kind donation of visors which were made by a local company, TintFit in Washington who custom made and delivered visors to the home for all of the care staff. Such great community spirit and despit

Astor Court Visors

One of our residents shares his birthday with the Queen. He said jokingly that he hoped she would pop in and wish him Happy Birthday.

Appletree Birthday Party

Here at Earsdon Grange we have been so delighted with all of the lovely community spirit and wanted to say a few thank you's to let them know how very much we appreciate them.

Community Spirit at Earsdon Grange

Willowdene Care Home on Lizards Lane, Sedgefield received a rather unexcepected but fabulous donation from Teeside scrub hub.

Wash Bags for Willowdene

We had a lovely surprise delivery at Astor Court from Clive Taylor who is the son of one of our residents. He wanted to say thank you for all of the hard work the staff are doing at the home through this strange time whilst also trying to keep life normal for all of our residents.

Chocolate Donation for Astor Court

The residents at Willow Bank enjoyed a cream tea for Mother's day. They made banners to decorate the dining room and made it look special. Residents baked some buns and decorated them and enjoyed scones with jam and clotted cream, the ladies all thought they were delicious.

Mother's Day at Willow Bank

We received the gorgeous bouquet of flowers as a thank you from one of our families.

Floral Gift for Batley Hall

We had a surprise telephone call today from the lovely people at Tingley, Ardsley & Thorpe Viral Kindness Group. The team make beautiful laundry bags and have kindly donated a bag for each member of staff to put their uniforms in.

Made with kindness

A wonderful chocolate hamper received today with a lovely thank you message to all our staff at Heeley Bank Care Home.

Chocolate of Dreams for Heeley Bank

Massive congratulations to Pam who has worked at Howgate House for 13 years and her husband Ian on their 30th wedding anniversary. We hope our hamper goes a little way to making up for the cruise they should have been going on.

30th Wedding Anniversary Hamper

Thank you to the children at Busy Bees Nursery for sending some fabulous drawings to our residents. It has certainly made us all smile and the residents love looking at the wonderful creations.

Wonderful Creations from Busy Bees Nursery

Dear Sandra and the Hope Green team

Message of Appreciation

Thank you so much to Hanson school who have kindly made and donated face visors to Howgate House .

Hanson Schools Kind Donation

A huge thank you to our local Tesco, Slough Community Volunteer Service and One Slough Community Response Team for the donations and delivery of Easter eggs for everyone in the home.

Easter Delivery

Staff at Windmill Care Centre enjoyed a welcome break of delicious homemade cake along with a calming cup of tea thanks to the generosity of one of our local neighbours. This lovely treat was dropped off on Friday to thank everyone for all their hard work and care at this busy time.

Afternoon Tea Treat

Easter was celebrated with residents coming together to listen to the Easter service live streamed from St Margarets Church, Ilkley. In the afternoon we had a prize quiz and afternoon tea, which was enjoyed by all.

Live Streamed Easter Service for Troutbeck Care Home

Residents at Troutbeck Care Home in Ilkley enjoyed making paper flowers to create an indoor garden area, these proved to be very popular. We used them to make a lovey Easter display that residents could enjoy in the garden room.

Easter Flower Display at Troutbeck

We had a surprise visit from the lovely people from the Ummah Welfare Trust a fabulous charity. They have kindly delivered additional PPE supplies to the staff at Howgate House.

Kind Donation for Howgate House

Thank you to the children at Thorpe Primary School for the wonderful picture we received at Howgate House. It brought a big smile to everyone.

Thank you Thorpe Primary School

Easter is always a special time at Ashfield Court in Harrogate and this year we really missed the visits from the children coming into the home.

Easter Eggs for Ashfield Court

Easter at Windmill Court was a special time. We decorated the home, made and sent cards to family and friends and of course enjoyed plenty of chocolate eggs and hot cross buns.

Easter Time at Windmill Court

We are rapidly learning new skills at Windmill Court to ensure we can keep in touch with friends and family.

Handmade Bracelets and Gifts

Cedar Court Care Home in Cranleigh had it's second interactive concert of the year in March from their young friends at the Royal Academy of Music .

Musical Performance from Royal Academy Music

One of our resident's granddaughter's was turning 40 this month and her partner really wanted her grandma to wish her Happy Birthday.

Birthday Surprise

We received this beautiful knitted heart from Karen and her brother as a thank you to all staff members looking after the residents here at Furze Hill Lodge Care Home, particularly their mum Angela.

A lovely card received from Upper Batley High School

Thank you message for Batley Hall

We had a surprise visit from the lovely people from the Ummah Welfare Trust a fabulous charity. They kindly donated additional PPE supplies to the staff at Batley Hall.

Thank you Ummah Welfare Trust

Fallibroome Academy High School have made these visors in their technology lab and donated them to Cavendish Court.

Kind Donation for Cavendish Court

Heeley Bank witnessed a lovely family leaving this message on the entrance to our car park.

They have thanked us for all our care during this difficult time.

A wonderful message that all our staff will be able to enjoy reading on their way into work or on their way home.

Message of Thanks

The Buckingham House team want to show their support for all the essential workers and the NHS.

Teamwork makes the dream work

Our local community has responded with so much love and support to us all during these uncertain times and we want to thank you all from everyone at River View.

Thank You to Sewa Day Volunteers

The Belvedere Care Home spent the day getting ready for the Easter weekend by decorating some beautiful home made cupcakes using buttercream and pretty rice paper flowers out in the garden.

Getting Creative with Cakes

Lots of lovely home made fancy buns all ready for our tea party this afternoon at The Belvedere Care Home. Everyone is looking forward to enjoying one with a cuppa.

Afternoon Tea at The Belvedere

The staff and residents at Gateford Hill Care Home would like to thank TESCO, Worksop, for their generosity. For them to take the time and effort, at this difficult time, to deliver the donation to the door. All gratefully appreciated - thank you so much again.

Special Delivery to Gateford Hill

Audrey celebrated her 100th birthday this week at Skell Lodge Residential Home.

Many Happy Returns.

Happy 100th Birthday

Our residents at Parksprings sending their love and support.

Messages from Parksprings.pdf

Messages from Parksprings

This week at Croft House we received some letters from the children at Flushdyke School to our residents. The letters were wishing them well and to keep safe.

Ashfield Court Care Home on Tewit Well Road in Harrogate were delighted to receive a parcel from the children of Grove Road Primary School.

With love from Ashfield Court

Staff and residents had a brilliant afternoon at Troutbeck Care Home when they held an Alice in Wonderland themed Tea Party. Some of the staff wore fancy dress and we had a fabulous Cheshire cat cake made by our talented activities lady.

Alice In Wonderland Tea Party at Troutbeck

Here at Rose Lodge Care Home in Newton Aycliffe we have been overwhelmed by the love and support shown by our local community and especially receiving letters from local schools and colleges for the residents. We received a lovely letter this week from Greenfield Community College and of co

Letters from Greenfield Community College

Here at Clumber Court, we went on the mini bus to Pusto farm in March to see the sheep and lambs that had just been delivered.

Visit to Pusto Farm for Clumber Court

Rosedale Care Home in Catterick Garrison have been looking at new ideas of things to do in the home during this period of lockdown and one of the great ideas we had was to hold a weekly coffee morning. We held our first one in March and our residents had a fabulous time. We started off

Rosedale Cake and Chatter

Thank you so much to Brookside Garden Centre for donating all these gorgeous flowers for our residents at Hope Green. This has really cheered everyone up and lifted everyone's spirits

Thank you Brookside Garden Centre