Our stories

Peace of mind

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.

Bowerfield House have the most amazing staff , I'm very lucky to have a great work family. One of our staff on house keeping arrived this morning with a little gift for everyone, a wooden heart friendship message and and a mental health jigsaw friends keyring.

Act Of Kindness On Stress Awareness Day

Allingham House is an international environment where people all around the world work together giving the best of themselves to deliver the best caring assistance to our residents. For that reason, we like to include our residents on popular festivals in other countries.

Diwali Festival at Allingham House

Our ladies enjoyed being tattooed with spooky characters for the day!

A beer made the process pain free!

Halloween Tattoos and Beer!

Our selection of our home made Halloween cakes.

Halloween Cakes

This year for Halloween the home and residents decided to turn the reception area into a spooky spiders lair. Everyone gave their opinions and added their artistic fair to the decorating around the home.

Halloween Decorations at Birch Heath

For the Halloween Party we had Entertainment from one of our regular Entertainers. The kitchen team created a Halloween lunch and made a Halloween high tea with spooky cakes and desserts for everyone to enjoy. We also played Games and finished the day with a bit of karaoke.

Halloween Party at Birch Heath

These are our pumpkins we carved for the Morrisons competition. We chose the sugar skull and the witch.

Pumpkin Competition

We had a great face painting session here at Alexandra Court, residents really enjoyed joining in.

Our lovely Patty having her face painted, and doing her witches laugh.

Halloween Dress Up

Giving it a little 'Oomph'. Another Oomph wellness class in action!

Getting our 'Oomph' on.

Here at Troutbeck we held a big celebration for Halloween and we were delighted with our Halloween display.

Troutbeck's Halloween Celebrations

Teamwork makes the dreams work, that will be the perfect definition to describe the amazing pumpkin shaped biscuits that the residents baked as part as one of the many activities that they enjoyed to celebrate Halloween.

Halloween Biscuit Making

We had so much fun this Halloween, from pumpkin carving and decorating to creating a group spooky collage and most of all our monster mash party.

Carmel Lodge's Halloween Activities

"Those who do not believe in magic will never find it" ...... Roald Dahl

Here is our lovely Jean getting into the Halloween spirit, have you ever seen a witch more lovely than Jean.

Halloween Spirit

Our window display for Remembrance Day.

We also have poppies available at reception for residents, relatives and staff to donate to.

Remembrance Day Display at Cavendish

What can be better than your morning paper being delivered by your friends with a smile? One of our residents loves to help out and rises early every day so the newspaper round is a perfect role for her and she is delighted to get involved.

Newspaper Delivery

Our residents here at Ashfield Court really enjoyed a traditional afternoon tea, there were lots of conversations, cake and bubbles.

Afternoon Tea at Ashfield Court

Bowerfield House had another great fun day celebrating hug a bear day, staff and residents loved giving our massive teddy bear Ted a big hug.

Ted the teddy bear made everyone smile and cheered every one up. Ted was all hugged up and later went for an afternoon nap.

We had great fun making bonfire biscuits at Cavendish Court. We decorated our biscuits like fireworks using icing sugar and sprinkles, we had great fun getting messy and enjoyed eating our handiwork with a cup of tea mmmm delicious!

Bonfire Biscuits

Our residents really enjoyed watching the garden fireworks on Bonfire Night at Carmel Lodge. We had a lovely night enjoyed by all residents and staff.

Bonfire Night at Carmel Lodge

Trick or Treat was in full swing during Halloween at Ashmead. The Activities team dressed appropriately and toured the whole home offering chocolate and biscuit bars on a specially decorated mobile trolley.

Trick Or Treat at Ashmead

There is no end to the talents of our residents at Cedar Court, they take on every challenge set them! They were very keen to take part in the Cranleigh competition for the best 'Guy' to be thrown on the local bonfire.

Cedar Court Residents created a lovely pair of 'Guys' for the Cranleigh Bonfire competition!

Home cooking at its best! The residents made a fantastic homemade vegetable soup. They prepared all the vegetables, peeling carrots, chopping potatoes, pressing garlic and popping peas. Everyone took their time and the vegetables soon piled up in the cooking pot.

Homemade Vegetable Soup

Everyone loves a pamper day. The people living at The Hawthorns enjoyed a manicure recently, which involved, filing, nail polish and a relaxing hand massage.

Much of the enjoyment comes from the chatting and getting together, just like you would in other salons.

Not a holiday that those who live here are used to celebrating, but our Halloween celebrations turned out to be such a fun filled day.

HALLOWEEN AT PARKVIEW HOUSE

We are very pleased to announce that our Lifestyle Co-ordinators, Stanley and Kirsty are now qualified to develop and lead exercise classes, after completing the 'Exercise Leadership' course with Oomph! Wellness.

We are OOMPH! qualified!

Things got OOOKY SPOOKY here at Abingdon Court, as we all gathered for some Halloween celebrations!

Halloween Party

In the spirit of Halloween, we collected a large array of pumpkins so we could decorate the lounge ready for our Halloween.

Pumpkin People Making

As we move into Autumn, and experience cooler temperatures outside, it’s a lot harder to get our fix of the outdoors environment.

Abingdon Flower Club

Not only did our residents enjoy preparing for Halloween with pumpkin painting, but our staff did to!

Pumpkin Painting Station

Our Halloween celebrations really were fantastic thanks to the creativity of the people living with us and all of these beautiful masks that were created 🎃👻

Halloween Arts and Crafts

At Highfield many of the people living with us enjoy participating in art and craft activities and this week joined into pumpkin crafting including painting, carving along with flower arranging in the pumpkins 🎃

HALLOWEEN ARTS & CRAFTS AT HIGHFIELD

Everyone at Knights Court really enjoyed celebrating the annual MMCG Care awards recently, with our very own Activity Co-ordinator Raj Sheth being nominated in the Most Innovative Activities Programme category.

Celebrating in Style

At Buckingham House the people who live with us enjoys our daily morning exercise sessions. Nothing better than some gentle stretching and seated exercises to get the day off to a great start .

Morning Exercise Session at Buckingham House

The residents loved listening to music with a cuppa and being pampered from nails to make up in there very own beauty salon here at the Moors Care Centre. We have lots of activities on during the week but sometimes we just enjoy some 1-1 time together having our nails done or a pamper for t

Beauty Salon at The Moors

We had a fabulous day celebrating the care awards with our residents. We were delighted to win Best New Comer for our fabulous Home Manager Angela Galloway and Administrator of the year for our Admin Michael Lawrence.

Care Award Celebrations at Willowbank

The residents enjoyed getting dressed up and were happy to be part of the annual 7th MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards which took place on Friday 24th September.

Care Awards at Thorntree

We had a coffee afternoon to raise funds for MacMillan. Residents helped set up the Tombola stall and enjoyed an afternoon of fun and chat. They are so pleased we raised £47. Our tombola stall was made up of Body Shop products and the ladies were thrilled when somehow they all won something.

MacMillan Support at Thorntree Mews

We celebrated a belated Macmillan Coffee morning in September to raise vital funds for this amazing charity and all they do to support the community. The day of the Macmillan coffee morning coincided with our annual care awards so we decided to host this a week later so our wonderful reside

Macmillan Coffee Morning at Rosedale

On Friday 19th October we were delighted to be presented with second prize from Great Aycliffe town council for best community garden. We were absolutely over the moon to receive this award.

2nd Place For Best Community Garden

We had such a lovely afternoon watching the care awards and cheering for the nominated staff across the homes and we enjoyed a lovely buffet of the residents favourite foods.

Care Awards at Garden Hill

Staff here at Alexandra Court got in the spooky spirit and dressed up for the occasion. All the staff really enjoyed it and we had such a fun day.

Halloween at Alexandra Court

We enjoyed celebrating the Annual MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards in September at the home. We were joined by our wonderful residents enjoying themselves with some cocktails and we were all keeping our fingers crossed for Jodie to win the award of Activities Coordinator of the Year.

Care Awards at White Rose Lodge

Our latest fundraising event was held at Strawberry Fields Car boot where Activities Coordinators, Jodie and Manda, were selling staff donations to local bargain hunters. We had a great result from our sale in the summer, so we were hoping the weather would stay bright and dry this time around.

Car Boot Fundraising

Our home baking club activity in the home is always really popular and this month was no exception when we made home made chocolate buns. Our residents do all of the work and then our Chef at the home pops them in the oven for us. We always make extra to share with all of the resident

Home Baking Club

The residents at Willowbank had great fun at our Halloween party today. Thank you to our chefs David and Mario for the delicious food.

Halloween Party at Willowbank

We love having seasonal displays in Reception at The Moors and we are delighted to present our Harvest Festival display for Autumn. Our receptionist Tricia excels at creating these wonderful displays for the residents, staff and relatives to enjoy in the coffee shop. We hope you enjoy

Harvest Festival Display

We celebrated Bill's 100th Birthday at the home in October, with lots of fizz and laughter. Bill was delighted to receive a very special letter from the Queen. We hope you had the most wonderful birthday with us at The Moors.

Bill's 100th Birthday

There has been plenty of activity at Oaklands this month. We have had a Paper pumpkin making with a Royal Family quiz. Pumpkin painting and making pumpkin faces with stickers. Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin carving with a group singalong.

Halloween Preparation at Oaklands

We have had lots of new senior managers start at the home recently and we wanted to introduce them to you all.

Donna Hendrickson who is our Registered Manager for Manor Park

Aiden Atkin- Unit manager for our General Nursing Unit

Senior Managers at Manor Park