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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.

The residents enjoyed the celebrations of Chocolate Day with a Chocolate Tasting. It was the perfect opportunity to enjoy their favourite chocolates with a cup of tea or coffee and reminiscing with other residents and staff about the memories that the different flavours bring them back.

Amber Court team had a great idea to turn our Oscar Awards Statue into scary mummy. We used tissue rolls to cover and draw some bloods in it. Look how amazing and scary it is. Our residents and staff in Amber Court can’t wait for our Halloween Party!

Amber Court's Scary Mummy

Bowerfield House celebrated Black History Month with a yummy Ghanaian Hot Chocolate from Ghana. We heated the milk and put brown sugar, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, honey and grated dark 85% cocoa chocolate, mixed it all together and pour into a cup with a squirt of cream .

Ghanaian Hot Chocolate

An afternoon of apple cider and apple pie in celebration of World Apple Day here at Ashfield!

World Apple Day

Congratulations to Victoria Swindells on gaining her care practitioner qualification.

Vicky has loved the training and is looking to apply for the nurse associate training.

Congratulations Victoria Swindells

Fay loves gardening and is getting the garden into shape at Carmel Lodge this Autumn.

Gardening at Carmel

Our residents enjoyed a fun-filled Disney day last month. The activities team started off by decorating the home with beautiful bright balloons and decorations.

Disney Day at Manorhey

Owen joined in with the golf tournament and more games that followed, he was the over all winner of the days games, winning a box of chocolate for his effort.

Golf Tournament

Feeling blue??

Well not in that way...

Jeans or Genes Day

One of our resident's relative sent us a lovely flowers and wrote a thank you card for everyone. This means a lot to us! We are very happy to serve and care.

Thank You Flowers and Cards.

Dorothy and Anita enjoyed the afternoon, Anita was one of our judges for our bake off. All together we raised about £60 for Macmillan.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

Residents enjoyed the Entertainment this afternoon with Roger who also works at Thornton Theatre where we have seen him perform many time, fab entertainer, enjoyed by all.

It was an uplifting atmosphere at Hope Green Care Awards Party as we danced to 'Reach For The Stars' music and gathered together to watch the National Awards Ceremony live streamed.

Hope Green Care Awards

At Cavendish Court we enjoyed celebrating the success of our colleagues in the care awards. Lindsay our previous deputy was unfortunately not an award winner but she is a winner in our eyes!

Cavendish Court's Care Awards

We know how important is recycling to conserve our natural resources, and for that reason the residents joined to the National Recycle Week. The residents let their imagination run free, creating beautiful flower vases from used glass bottles.

National Recycle Week

Ashfield Court really enjoyed a game of scrabble before lunch last week.

We celebrated Marie's 90th birthday here at Cavendish Court, she really enjoyed her homemade cake.

Marie's 90th Birthday

What a wonderful morning at Hope Green as we sorted through items from the laundry together. We reminisced about endless hours of housework, and laughed about how many pairs of socks one of the men owned.

Congratulations to Katie and Misha for winning worker bee of the month in October!

They both said the vouchers will help towards Christmas!

Well done and keep up the good work!

Worker Bee Of The Month

Meet Salem, Archie, Charlie, Bernard, Pedro, Jodie and Casper. We joined our lovely residents in some pumpkin carving activities last week and what a lot of fun we had. Annette gave them all names and helped create our pumpkin display for the lounge.

Pumpkin Carving

Bowerfield House are starting Halloween month with decorating some yummy spider cupcakes, the residents enjoyed decorating them and some residents liked watching them being made. Everyone enjoyed eating them with a cup of tea later in the day.

Cupcake Decorating

Wyndham Hall were very generously gifted £2,500 for some art work within the home and after much deliberation we opted for Charlotte Designs and artist Sarah Hodgkins produced this beautiful mural in an open area on our specialist dementia wing.

Room with a View

September 24th the sun was shining as it was Macmillan Cancer Support Fundraiser Coffee Afternoon.

We had a fabulous raffle with gifts donated by River View and local businesses – thank you. Thank you to everyone who took part. We raised a cracking £152.00.

Macmillan Fundraiser at River View

Big Parcel at the front door addressed to the Activities Organiser, what could it be?

Fabulous new games and activities for those that live here to use, so our wonderful activities organiser arranged a tester session, and they went down a storm.

New Games and Activities at Parkview

To celebrate National Animal Day, we decided to play some animal themed games!

Animal Charades!

We are fortunate enough to have an ongoing relationship with 'Christchurch Abingdon'. Before COVID-19 put us into lockdown, we had regular visits from the group who enjoyed meeting and greeting those who live here and putting on a short service with hymns, readings, and prayers.

Christchurch Service

At Hope Green we spent two lovely mornings in the garden planting some flowers which had kindly been donated by a local supermarket.

Planting Our Flowers

What a beautiful day we had here at The Belvedere Care Home. We celebrated World Mental Health Day and invited the wonderful Charlotte Kennedy to sing for us in the garden. Our residents had a great time and towards the end we were up having a good old boogie to We are Family.

World Mental Heath Day

We do love a good bake here at The Belvedere Care Home and one of our favourite things to bake is Scones. We have our baking activity in the morning and then enjoy our yummy scones with with jam and clotted cream for afternoon tea.

Today we went fossil crazy. As well as watching the online opening of the Norwich Cathedral Diplodocus 'Dippy' Exhibition, we learnt plenty of interesting fossil facts, played a Fossil Day word game and also coloured-in pictures of ancient sea fossils.

National Fossil Day!

As part of our Family Fun Day, we had some amazing entertainers lined up for all to enjoy. Firstly we were joined by Matt from Abingdon Music Centre.

Family Fun Day Entertainment

On Saturday 25th of September we were finally able open the gates to our garden and invite all family and friends to our huge end of summer celebration, and boy was it a hoot!

An arts and crafts session painting some rainbow hand autumn trees. Everyone living in the home who joined in with this session really enjoyed comparing the size of their hands, along with everyone’s unique shape🍁🌳

Art Day at Wyndham

Making these were great fun and we created a lot of mess. So cheap and simple to do. We purchased magnetic strips from a local craft shop. These make lovely gifts which we will be gifting to family and friends.

Salt Dough Magnets

Congratulations to our Super Nurse – Alina, who was presented with a gift card and some of her favourite flowers in recognition of her nomination as a finalist in the category of Nurse of the Year at this year’s MMCG Care Awards. Well done Alina, we are all so proud of you and the recogniti

Congratulations Alina!

What a lovely relaxing afternoon our residents had creating such wonderful pictures.

It may be raining outside, but the sun is always shining in Buckingham House.

Arts and Crafts Afternoon

As the weather turns colder, our thoughts are turning to Autumn, the clocks go back and even though we know Autumn or Fall as it is sometimes called can be a short season, we also think it can be one of the most beautiful, with bright summer type skies, with a chill in the air and the wonderful c

We decided to try something a little different for our arts and craft day. We took to the gardens and began searching for some pebbles and small rocks to decorate. We had so many inspired designs and the residents have decided to sell their creations at our upcoming winter fete.

Arts and Crafts Day

We enjoyed an afternoon of pizza making in preparation for our take away and film night.

There were a huge selection of toppings and we discovered some budding chefs amongst us! Its fair to say they were all delicious.

Take Away & Film Night

Recently we were head over heels, as we witnessed something really quite special here at the grounds of Abingdon Court.

Wedding Bells at Abingdon Court

Cavendish Court held their very own awards ceremony celebrating the staff and residents, they also had a lovely buffet which everyone enjoyed.

Cavendish Court's Award Ceremony

An afternoon of apple cider and apple pie in celebration of world apple day!

World Apple Day

Residents enjoyed a sensory 'light' show Tuesday morning. All of our residents participated changing the colours.

Sensory Light Show

We couldn’t believe the beautiful weather on the day of our fantastic coffee morning to support and raise funds for Macmillan. We invited family and friends to join us in the gardens.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

The Annual MMCG Care Awards was celebrated brilliantly on Friday 24th September. The people who live at The Hawthorns, dressed up in their finest and joined the team to recognise the achievements of all the nominees.

Care Awards at The Hawthorns

Recently the people who live at The Hawthorn made their own pizzas for tea. As well as kneading their dough to create the perfect pizza base, they also choose their own toppings. They were delicious!!

For Black History Month the people living at The Hawthorns have been involved in a number of activities, including quizzes to identify some of the most influential people and learning more about them. We also completed word searches and posters.

Black History Month at The Hawthorns

Another birthday celebration at Deepdene and another excuse for a party.

Happy birthday Bob, it was a great day

Bob's Birthday at Deepdene

Linley led the entertainment recently making it very interactive, with dancing, and exercises accompanied with bubbles and feathers, a fabulous afternoon.

Entertainment at Deepdene

As the days get shorter we begin to think about the beautiful season, Autumn. With this in mind, the creative minds at Deepdene took to drawing stunning Autumn leaves coloured with autumnal pastel colours.