Our stories

Our first trip out since covid, we used the local bus services, and went to the cinema, we watched Elvis. There was lots of dancing and a few tears, an amazing film but very sad indeed.  Our residents loved it and we are already planning for more trips out.

We celebrated National Sister’s Day in August and organised an arts and craft session to show our sisters that we love them here at Willowbank.  We all made cards for the residents in the home and wrote them a little message which we popped into an envelope ready for Sisters Day on 7th Augus

We have enjoyed delivering an assortment of puzzles and games this afternoon to Amy Senior who is the Community Fundraiser for Dementia Forward in North Yorkshire.

We celebrated the annual MMCG/Countrywide Care awards at the home in July with a buffet for the staff to enjoy and celebrate our colleagues in the region who were up for awards.  We were delighted for everyone who won not only from our region but throughout the company.

Our staff and our Courtyard residents celebrating Yorkshire Day the Yorkshire way today, ey by gum.

What a fantastic time we have had with the residents and staff preparing for The Famous Jersey Battle of Flowers .

Lots of hard work but what incredible results.

Well done to everyone involved and especially our Lifestyle Co-ordinator, Ioana for her brilliant creativity

It was smiles all round in the summer sunshine as we gathered in the garden to show our own creative flair. Our competition was a great way to bring residents together and celebrate our own uniqueness whilst enjoying the friendship too.

As part of this week activity, we prepared some desserts for the Carte D'or competition, we were very proud of the end result.

Its not everyday that you get to celebrate a Platinum wedding anniversary, 70 years being married is such an achievement.  Living at the home, the couple wanted to celebrate the day with their friends and family so we created a space for them to enjoy the special day together.

Having our own cafe at Water Royd allows us to create a different social space for the people living with us.  It was so enjoyable to host a coffee morning which was enjoyed by all.  The cakes were also a big hit with everyone.

People living with us love the outdoors and so we got out playing table top games outside in the sunshine and enjoyed some refreshments.

We are delighted to have received our new Just Bowl kit, which is already bringing a lot of delight and smiles, as well as some friendly competition into our home.

Belvoir Vale Choir practice is such a lovely time of singing and laughter, even our residents are giving the guitar a go! Watch out for our concert in September.  We are building a choir at Belvoir Vale that sing well known favourite old time songs.

The people living with us had a great time celebrating 'world emoji day' and making some great emojis and even creating their own new ones.

We had a visit from our lovely singer Alan turner, Alan was in the XFactor and even went to Simon Cowells house in  Barbados in 2008. It is a great pleasure to have him visit us regularly and we all look forward to him coming.

At our Gardening Club this week , we decided to do some weeding and put some new plants in.  The people living with us wanted more colour in the garden and so today we did just that.

Some of the people living with us at Brunel enjoyed a flower arranging session recently. As well as buying some really colourful pretty flowers for the activity, we also picked some from our own gardens .

We celebrated International Cheese and Wine Day at Monread with a selection of our favourite wines, paired with the perfect combination of cheese and grapes - it went down a treat with the people living with us and proved to be a delicious afternoon.

Pippa the PAT dog joined the team at Hope Green and was welcomed by everyone including our manager who was delighted to get involved. Pippa's owner has a wealth of knowledge about dogs too so residents were very keen to ask lots of questions and find out all about Pippa, who is now 10years old.

We had a fantastic entertainer in to Buckingham House who got all the people living with us singing along with him.  He sang a great range of songs for us all that even got some people dancing, it was a great afternoon.