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Appletree Court Care Home had a their very own culture day...

Everyone living and working at Appletree Court enjoyed a variety of dishes and snacks from different cultures within their community to taste and enjoy.

The Wharf Care Home are donators for this year’s Kemp The Wyre Forest Hospice Butterfly Release! 🦋

The Abingdon Athletes were eager to compete at our Just Bowl tournament!

We were welcomed by one of our sister homes Lace Hill Manor Care Home, who provided us with an American style feast along with fantastic hospitality!

Happy International Nurses Day to all of our nurses within Abingdon Court and around the world! 💙

 

We enjoyed celebrating with a party full of singing, dancing and plenty of cake. It's a perfect way to come together!

 

Woodland care home had their very own pop up shop in the comfort of their own home this week.

The people living with us enjoyed a fantastic tea party to celebrate The King's Coronation. 

As Madonna once said, music makes the people come together - we prove that statement true here at Abingdon Court 🎤

The King's coronation is a momentous occasion that calls for the utmost attention to detail when it comes to decoration and preparation. This event marks the beginning of a new era in the kingdom, and it is important to create an atmosphere that is both regal and celebratory 🎉👑

The Hawthorns held a brilliant indoor street party for the people living with us.

Everyone enjoyed a traditional English Buffet with a beautiful cake that our chefs made.

We would like to invite you to our very first Dementia Café!

Here at Woodland we have been making our very own photo booth for the Kings Coronation. We wanted to make a Golden Carriage for everybody to take photos in. 

It turned out really well, we charged £1 a photo and all the money raised went to charity.

We started a gardening club on 24th April, our gardener Paul was very excited about this.

The people living with us planted over 40 sunflower seeds, we hope they all germinate so we can plant them in our lovely garden.

To celebrate Easter we enjoyed our a party with our families and friends.

We really enjoyed the entertainment from Kyle the singer, and the children entertained us with their fantastic dancing. Everyone had a great day.

Easter celebrations at Abingdon Court were filled with joy and creativity! Bringing smiles and Easter cheer to the wonderful people who live here!

We spent the day making beautiful Easter bonnets 👒, scrumptious nest cakes🪺, and arranging fresh spring flowers🐰🌷🌸

The Hawthorns recently invited some children from the local community to come and help the people that live with us prepare for their Easter celebrations.

Everyone got involved in creating some Easter decorations to be put around the home.

Birthdays are important to us here at Abingdon Court, and this one is no exception…

 

We are pleased to announce that Willowdene Care Home has been named one of the top 20 Care Homes in the North East of England at the Carehome.co.uk awards! This is a phenomenal achievement, and we are so proud of their hard work and dedication. ✨

Every week in our poetry club, those living with us collectively write a poem. This is based on an idea or theme of the poems which we read aloud together. We thought these poem needed a home, so we’ve created this album to store them week by week. Check out what we have so far!

We’re kicking off St David’s Day in the best way we know how - getting the Welsh Cakes on the griddle!

 

The people with us at Belmont House love Pancake Day and taking turns trying their hand on tossing the pancakes around each unit.