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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.

We celebrated the Chinese New Year in style. We watched a beautiful Dragon Dance show from Hong Kong on our large screen, ate Chinese spring rolls with sweet chilli sauce and prawn crackers, we listened to relaxing Chinese Music and learnt a little about the History of the Chinese Rulers.

Chinese New Year at Troutbeck

We have made a beautiful dried flower wreath from flowers that have been sent in to Residents throughout the year.

We love the Craft Sessions and can't wait to getting potting seeds and bulbs for Spring.

Dried Flower Wreath

There was some lovely work produced in our mindful colouring session. Residents listened to relaxing mindful music whilst producing their pieces. These sessions aim to improve focus and concentration and reduce stress. We finished off our session with a herbal tea.

Mindful Colouring Session

There was a really lovely atmosphere at our Flower Arranging Club last week with beautiful bunches of brightly coloured spray Carnations. They looked so lovely that it prompted us to decorate the window area too.

Flower Arranging Club

A women's work is never done, but we had lots of fun at Bowerfield House sorting and pairing all these socks up. With Vera and Pauline on the job it didn't take long to pair up every one’s socks. They are all nicely put away in everyone's bedroom ready for another day.

Residents at Manorhey enjoyed our Burns Night Celebrations with Haggis and tatties, pictured Alberto originating from Scotland enjoying haggis and a drop of Scottish whiskey

Burns Night at Manorhey

Last month, one of the residents enjoyed a nostalgic seaside jigsaw puzzle. We talked about trips to the seaside when we were younger and our favourite seaside activities.

Seaside Jigsaw Puzzle

The residents had a delicious Chinese dish for lunch. Either Sweet and Sour Chicken with rice or Vegetable stir fry. They enjoyed the decorations and the fun fortune cookies. We also found out which animal each resident is is regards to the Chinese calendar.

Chinese New Year celebrations at The Hawthorns

Residents celebrated National Nutella Day when residents took part in Baking Club as they prepared a chocolate cheesecake which our residents enjoyed with an afternoon cup of tea.

National Nutella Day at Manorhey

Residents and Staff at Manorhey celebrated Chinese New Year with a traditional Chinese meal served by the home's catering staff. Chinese lanterns were made and decorated by residents.

Chinese New Year at Manorhey

Bowerfield House enjoyed taking part in Dignity Day, we had staff and residents write on a wooden heart and display it on the dignity tree.

Dignity Day at Bowerfield House

Residents enjoyed their exercise sessions last week using their pom poms. The swimming and shopping themed exercise were liked by the majority of the residents, we then finished of the day with a couple of games of dominoes.

A Day at Alexandra Court

As a multicultural environment, where people from all around the world, work together giving the best of themselves, to deliver the best of the care.

Chinese New Year at Allingham House

Last week at Ashfield Court some of the residents were getting very creative ready for Valentine's Day, using a very different technique with Jigsaw pieces to create a heart for our valentines display!

Valentine's Arts and Crafts

For big garden birdwatch our residents enjoyed arts and craft where we painted a bird house, coloured pictures of birds in and had a selection of bird like activity’s at hand. We listened to some relaxing music during the activity allowing our residents to listen to bird noises and tweets.

Big Garden Birdwatch at Water Royd

Bowerfield House enjoyed doing a time capsule, we put in Covid tests PCR and lateral flow tests, a photo of everyone who lives and works at Bowerfield House, and a news paper, we picked 2.2.2022 as this date is a palindrome date , meaning it can be read the same way backwards and forwards.

Bowerfield House's Time Capsule

We had a fabulous crafty morning creating some lanterns for the Lunar New Year. We used shapes and colour to create wonderful patterns on card before magically transforming them into lanterns which look great on display.

Lunar New Year Lanterns

Thank you very much to Patricia and her lovely family for sending us some lovely boxes of sweeties which brightened our day here at the home. We did, of course, share these with Pat as we know she has a sweet tooth like us.

Residents at White Rose Lodge have been getting crafty with their caring by decorating bird houses and creating cereal bird feeders which we can put outside in our beautiful garden to help wildlife as part of our MMCG pledge “Feeding the Community”.

Feeding The Community

New Year new resolutions, both residents and WRL have decided to keep more active in this new year, WRL has created new daily exercise classes which are being trailed and will be a permanent feature from the next month’s activities regime, we do our best to keep our residents motivated and moving

New Years Resolutions

We enjoyed a lovely crafting session making Chinese Lanterns to celebrate the year of the Tiger. We hung the lanterns up in our rooms and around the dining room where we enjoyed a Chinese banquet for dinner.

Chinese Lanterns

We love games day at The Moors and had so much fun with play your card right and bowling lots of fun and laughter was had by all. We can’t wait to welcome you into the home when COVID allows to have a game of Play Your Cards Right as there are lots of shouts of higher, lower, stick.

Games Day at The Moors

Our wonderful activities coordinator Jane braved a night in the cold to raise much needed funds for a homeless youth charity in North Yorkshire. Jane said, “The home is warm and safe, and I am reminded in this cold January that many people find themselves without their own home and are far

Sleepout In York

Whisky tasting, sea shanty and singing for burns night here at The Moors. We had a lovely day leading up to the Burns Day supper with haggis, neeps and tatties prepared by our fabulous Chef’s at the home and enjoyed cups of tea and Shortbread biscuits during the day.

Burns Night at The Moors

An Oaklands resident skilfully crafted a New Year wreath in January to mark the turn of the year. She used fresh greenery from the Oakland’s gardens and some Christmas baubles.

New Year Wreath

Residents recently spent an hour taking part in the National Bird Watch scheme, we had three residents watching from the lounge and three watching from their rooms.

National Bird Watch at Oaklands

We enjoyed a movie afternoon in the Dementia unit in January.

Movie Club at Manor Park

We had a fantastic afternoon on the Wii, residents really enjoyed it. Ken seemed to have loved every minute of it. The other residents just wanted to watch and cheer Ken on. They were his biggest supporters.

Playing On The Wii

We were delighted when Jeanette, our wonderful Housekeeper here at Corinthian House won our first Regional Hero Award.

Regional Hero Award

The residents really enjoyed the Chinese New Year celebrations. They made sparklers and lanterns and enjoyed some Chinese food. We talked about the different animals of the Chinese zodiac calendar.

Chinese New Year Celebrations at Corinthian

We had some fun with the old games at the home this month as well as learning new technology. We played games of hoopla, tin can alley and then an afternoon of games on the tablet (squash the spider). The residents thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were so good at squashing the spider

Games at Croft House

We enjoyed a lovely fish supper from our local fish and chip shop in January as a treat. Every Friday at the home we enjoy Fish and Chips but this Friday we received chips from our favourite local shop. The residents had such a lovely time, eating chips out of the paper and reminiscing

Fish and Chip Friday

Bowerfield House enjoyed celebrating National Carrot Day yesterday, one of our favourite desserts!

National Carrot Day

We always enjoyed going to our tea club but with COVID and the cold winter days we decided to start our own weekly tea club at the home. Our residents look forward to it each week and it’s a great opportunity to catch up with each other.

Weekly Tea Club

Rabbie Burns Night at the home is always something our residents enjoy, and this year was no different. We had a piper and an accordion player to entertain our residents and lots of singing and dancing before we sat down to a supper of haggis, neeps and tatties.

Rabbie Burns Night at Wallace View

We enjoyed a fabulous Burn Supper at the home to celebrate all things Rabbie Burns. We had a delicious meal of haggis, neeps and tatties with a dram of whisky to celebrate. Here is our table, all set for Burns Supper.

Burns Supper at Thorntree Mews

Today we have spent the morning going through our "Postcards of kindness". Cards and letters from different people and pets from all over the country.

Postcards Of Kindness

Rabbie Burns night in Scotland is always a wonderous night of celebrations at Parksprings. This year we wanted to do something a little extra special and filmed all of our wonderful residents reading the lines of a very famous song. There was amazing singing, poetry and reciting, Tartan

Rabbie Burns Night at Parksprings

Drive Through Coffee Tea and Cake

We had two 70th birthdays celebrations in January at Yohden for our Alan and Ann both celebrate their 70th birthday. We had a birthday party for them and they really enjoyed their special day.

Birthday Celebrations at Yohden

There is lots of work happening at Rosedale at the moment in the Lodge which is undergoing a huge refurbishment project to open April time. Our very handy maintenance man, Steve, has been such a huge help.

Rosedale Refurbishment

We celebrated Bill and Daphne's 53rd wedding anniversary in February. We wish them all the love and for many more years to come. Happy Anniversary to you both.

Bill and Daphne's 53rd Wedding Anniversary

We celebrated Burns Night at Rose Lodge with the traditional Haggis, neeps and tatties. We enjoyed some Scottish songs during the day, along with Scottish Shortbread and tales of We had a lovely morning joining in the Burns celebrations and our Haggis, neeps and tatties were enjoyed by all.

Burns Night at Rose Lodge

We are delighted to show you the start of our new project, Carson Gallery and making great progress finding new talent for embroidery, sketching and painting. We can't wait to show you the final product.

Garden Hill's Project

Chinese New Year celebrations at Garden Hill. We listened to traditional Chinese music while enjoying stir fry with spring rolls and prawn crackers with sweet chili dip.

Chinese New Year at Garden Hill

We enjoyed our Burns night at the home and at the end of the night the piper performed in the garden for us. The residents thoroughly enjoyed the show. We decorated the home in Scottish flags and enjoyed Irn Bru and Scottish Shortbread biscuits.

Burns Nights at Field View

We have had some new additions in the field next to us at Field View and our residents have been popping out to see them and feeding the horses. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such lovely greenery at the home.

Horses Near Field View

The winter days may be cutting in but at Earsdon Grange we are still enjoying our usual activities but just inside the home. Our residents love a game of bowling so we set up the lounge as an indoor bowling alley. They really enjoyed the afternoon and celebrated their wins with aftern

Bowling at Earsdon Grange

We celebrated Edith celebrating her 85th birthday at the home in January. Her morning started with opening her presents whilst having Happy Birthday sung to her. Our Chef, baked her a cake to enjoy with a cuppa and her friends at the home all enjoyed a little tea party as she bl

Edith's 85th Birthday

Our residents enjoyed a fabulous party to celebrate the life and Poetry of Robbie Burns, we had afternoon tea with Scottish Raspberries and lovely shortbread.

Burns Night Celebrations at Troutbeck