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The people loving at Woodlands have been busy creating various items to decorate our lounge for the harvest season and Halloween.  They have enjoyed using different techniques and textures and the results are fantastic.

To raise awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness Month recently, the residents decorated some beautiful cupcakes and made unique pink ribbon badges.

Bowerfield House has had another busy activity week , starting with cupcake decorating , painting, craft and chatting about this months theme Myths, legends and fairy tails and all the different and interesting facts.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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