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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.

This week all staff members at Manorhey enjoyed a Christmas party from the company. the room was decorated beautifully with buffet food, desserts, drink station and a festive sweets station. staff pulled crackers and enjoyed this festive time with friends they work with.

Manorhey Staff Christmas Lunch

We were very lucky to receive some colouring sheets from the local church. The residents enjoyed colouring these in and talking about time spent at their local churches.

Colouring Sheets

Residents and staff at Hope Green have been busy making use of old magazines and making them into Christmas trees for every resident to have in their room. This was a real fun activity to do together and we're going to be looking at other ways of reusing and recycling in the future

Upcycled Christmas Trees

Ashfield Court going Quackers and having a right Raft, playing Hook a Duck.

A virtual trip to Germany to the Christmas Markets was a great way of spending the morning together at Hope Green. One of our residents was born and brought up in Germany and was thrilled to be able to show friends some places that have a special place in her heart.

Virtual Trip to Germany

We’re embracing the Christmas spirit in the week leading up to Christmas by making Christmas decorations to hang in the lounge and decorating gingerbread men for everyone in the Home to enjoy.

Christmas Spirit

This year's Christmas season is different for all of us due to the pandemic. Instead of doing the traditional Christmas tree decorations. We, the Amber Court staffs wanted to create something new and unique for everyone.

Family Christmas Tree

We have some fine bakers here at Abingdon Court, so it's no surprise that our baking sessions go down so well with those that live here - and as we are entering the festive period, we simply had to make some mince pies!

Abingdon Court Christmas Bakery

The staff at Dunelm Reading decided this year to give up their secret Santa gifts to the people who live at River View. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the staff.

Donated Gifts to Riverview

Christmas has arrived at Westbourne and we a fully in the festive swing.

Christmas at The Westbourne

We were very excited to receive our new bowling kit, along with training from the Just Bowl team recently.

Just Bowls at Windmill Court

The staff of Clarendon Court are all getting into the festive spirit, entertaining our residents with their own, very unique take on the traditional Nativity play.

Staff Nativity Play

Hand Massages and sampling a range of 'spa' products was a lovely way to spend a cooler autumn day at Hope Green. We made ourselves cosy and warm, enjoyed relaxing music, and sampled everything from rose hand cream to coconut facial spray.

Hand Massages at Hope Green

Residents made homemade mince pies today, they started off with the pastry and filled them with luscious mincemeat they were baked off in the kitchen and then served with Baileys Irish cream.

Homemade Mice Pies

Our notice activity notice board has been updated with Christmas cheer all around.

It is looking very festive and is getting our residents in the Christmas spirit.

Activity Notice Board at Manorhey

Hope Green are absolutely delighted with their Christmas trees this year and have enjoyed helping out with directing which trees should go into which rooms, what colour decorations to choose and whether it should be a star or a fairy on the top.

Christmas Trees Galore

The residents have been busy getting the Home ready for Christmas by helping decorate the Christmas Trees. They have also created a magnificent Christmas Display using lots of textures, some glitter (of course!) and a real scarf for the snowman knitted by one of the residents.

Christmas Display

We have been so fortunate here at The Hawthorns to receive some beautiful Christmas Cards from the Notre Dame Prep School. They have been hand made for our residents with some brilliant drawings and lovely hand writing.

Receiving Christmas Cards

We have kick started off our Christmas activities by decorating some yummy gingerbreads followed by our first Carmel choir carol practice. It was lots of fun and really got us in the Christmas spirit.

Gingerbread Decorating

We enjoyed a Christmas special concert earlier this month by one of our favourite singers Dean Sinclair, he sang classic songs and definitely bought in some Christmas cheer as residents sung and danced along.

Christmas Concert

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at The Hawthorns. The residents helped decorate the trees for inside the home. Picking and choosing which baubles they wanted and which colours they preferred.

Christmas at The Hawthorns

As requested by the residents in this weeks Cooking Club we made a Chocolate Yule Log. We all had a go at whisking and sifting the icing sugar. We rolled the cake out to make the yule log and the residents helped to make the topping look like a log affect.

Bowerfield House have had a Christmas raffle we raised £68.

Our Winners were :

1st prize Andrea {carer}

2nd prize Gayle {carer}

Thankyou for everyone who bought a ticket much appreciated .

Bowerfield House have had a fantastic time decorating their home inside and out and its looking amazing and very Christmassy , we have made some snowman decorations and ceiling decorations , we talked about Christmas and it brought back happy memories from when their children were young .

Christmas at Bowerfield House

We were overjoyed by the turnout to our Carol Concert. Our residents had the most wonderful time welcoming friends and families to join us for carols, home made mince pies and mulled wine.

Thank you to all the staff of Clarendon Court who gave so generously to the Reverse Advent Calendar for Nantwich Food Bank.

Food Bank Donations

Our chef Caitlin was overjoyed to win one hundred pounds worth of amazon vouchers on the MMCG's daily advent calendar giveaway. Staff have really enjoyed logging on each day to see whose name pops up among the winners. We are all very pleased to see Caitlin win.

Caitlin's £100 Voucher Win

Not only has Chloe completed her 12 week induction she has been nominated as Worker Bee for December. Worker bee is voted for by staff and residents. Chloe has become a firm favourite with the residents for her can do attitude and nothing is too much trouble.

Congratulation Chloe!

Our residents spent the afternoon hanging a decoration on our Tree of Hope. The tree is a way to remember loved ones we have lost, sad and difficult times through the pandemic but also importantly to remember the hope we have for the future

With Christmas around the corner at Birch Heath Lodge everyone has been getting in the festive spirit. Gifts are coming in and we are appreciative of everyone's kindness and thoughts.

The season`s festivities will continue and we look forward to share these experiences with you all.

Christmas at Birch Heath

We had a zoom carol service here at The Hawthorns, both staff and residents really enjoyed this.

Zoom Carol Service

We enjoyed national elf day earlier this month as we raised money for the Alzheimer's Society.

Elf Day at Manorhey

We had the most elftastic time at Clarendon Court fund raising for the Alzheimer's Society whilst having fun for Elf Day. Staff and residents dressed up as elves and participated in hilarious elf themed games.

Staff and residents of Clarendon Court wore it pink to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research and raised an amazing £116.30. Thank you to everyone who took part.

Wear It Pink Day

Here is our lovely Jean looking fabulous at the Christmas party, all of our residents had a great time the drinks were flowing and the food was delicious , we were treated to live music from Richard Swings who proved to be quite the Christmas crooner.

Christmas Party at Carmel

It was great to team up with the local charity "Self Care matters" for our Christmas party. Alison the founder of the charity teamed up with our chef Caitlin to provide some tasty treats for our buffet. there was barely a crumb left.

Christmas Part Buffett

We have been hand decorating Christmas cards to send to families, we all love the craft workshops and celebrated our hard work with mince pies and mulled wine.

Craft Workshops

We have decorated a small area of our Home to Take Special Christmas Pics of our Residents here at Troutbeck, we will be posting them off to families together with our hand decorated Christmas Cards. Everyone has loved seeing the Decorations go up.

Christmas Pictures

We have been collecting donations for the Salvation Army in Keighley.

A big thank you to Yorkshire Cleaning and Maintenance for your kind donation of Toys and Games and also to Airdale Hospital for your donation of food and toiletries, and from our families we really appreciate it.

Salvation Army Donations

Abbey View's lights are switched on. Let the magic begin...

Light Switch On

Welcome to Abbey View's own Winter Wonderland! Don't worry, it's very warm and cosy.

Abbey View's Winter Wonderland

We have had a lovely day decorating our first tree for our home, we enjoyed some Christmas music with a nice cup of Tea whilst we put our decorations on. We have spent lots of time speaking about our favourite Christmas traditions and what they wanted to put on the trees and around their home.

Christmas at The Belvedere

Christmas at Hope Green wouldn't be complete without some wreath making so we set about gathering all that we needed and produced some great wreaths. Individual creativity is always a wonderful thing to celebrate and this was certainly one of those celebrations.

Christmas Wreath Making

What a lovely morning at Hope Green as we melted chocolate, selected toppings, and chose pink or white marshmallows. Each resident had their own personal decorating station so it was a perfect opportunity to try something a little different and work independently whilst chatting to friends.

Independent Marshmallow Creation Stations

We spent the day making Christmas cards, much fun and laughter enthused as pompoms got stuck to fingers and glitter got everywhere. We had lots of fun though!

Christmas Card Making

Bingo afternoon yesterday with chocolate prizes!

Bingo Afternoon

To feel more festive in our dining area, Amber Court decided to decorate and make our own centre table piece. Look at how beautiful they are. Everyone enjoyed themselves whilst making them.

Centre Table Setup

Normally Christmas Baubles are used to decorate our Christmas tree, but here in Amber Court we used our old yoga balls and pots to make one and decorated the front of our building. Look how lovely and colourful they are!

Giant Christmas Baubles in Amber Court

We celebrated Christmas Jumper Day here in Amber Court. Our kitchen prepared homemade mince pies, hot chocolate and mould wine for everyone. All the staff and residents wore their colourful, fluffiest, ugliest, funniest, and itchiest sweater. We all had a fun day indeed.

Christmas Jumper Day in Amber Court

Margaret, Roy and the rest of the residents loved the cold and foggy morning. Some of them decided to go outside while drinking their hot chocolate to warm them and a bit of chat with each other. Everyone enjoyed it and want to do it again once in a while.

Foggy Morning in Amber Court