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A million loves songs later...

There is no better way to round off our Valentine’s Day celebrations than inviting family and loved ones for a wonderful concert, performed by Katalin and Stanley from the lifestyle team.

Valentine's Day Concert

In the spirit of Random Acts of Kindness Day, we reflected on our experiences of kindness through our poetry club

Poetry Club

Student Volunteering Week

It’s Student Volunteering Week.

We’re so lucky to have an excellent group of Student volunteers who dedicate their time weekly to assist with our lifestyle programme, enriching the lives of those who live with us.

Valentine's Day at Abingdon Court

This is Abingdon Court's take on Valentine's Day.

The residents enjoyed creating their very own Valentine's Day cards, which were given to loved ones and others in the home.

These were then hung in the garden outside, sitting beautifully for all to see.

We enjoyed a trip to the local pub this month at Willowdene Care Home.

It was Friday afternoon and the people who live with us fancied a trip out to one of the local pubs called the Dun Cow in Sedgefield.

Pub Lunch

Our Brambles unit has started the Just Bowl competition for the home this month and staff and family members enjoyed getting involved in the competition with the people who live with us.

Just Bowl Competition

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon in January playing the parachute game.

Not only do the people who live with us love the game, but it also encompasses our “More” programme which embraces all elements of mind, body, and soul.

Parachute Game

This month we enjoyed getting back out into the local community and went round to the local PCP to grab a cup of tea and some biscuits.

PCP Visit

Who doesn’t love a slice of lemon drizzle cake? During one of our coffee mornings, we chatted about favourite cakes and a few of the people who lived with us mentioned home-made, lemon drizzle cake.

Lemon Drizzle Cake

Hartlepool Baby Bank Charity

Charity has always been close to the heart of staff and residents at Field View Care Home and this year is no exception.

We were delighted to start up our coffee mornings in February and in preparation, our Chef Moira baked the most glorious carrot cake.

Coffee Mornings

The people who live with us were delighted to welcome Zante fox and friends to the home with their owner Steve.

We met the gorgeous TJ his white rat, Valentine the Dove, Freddy the corn snake and Sapphire the barn owl before the star of the show Zante the fox.

Animal Visitors

Astor Care Complex Musical Tuck Shop

Last month our lifestyle team, Jay, and Aimee, thought they would repurpose an old medication trolley and make their very own musical tuck shop which they could take around the units here at Astor Care Complex.

Abingdon Court Poetry Club

“Writing a poem is discovering” 📝

I present to you Open and Talk; two poems written by those that live at Abingdon Court, friends from St Helen and St Katherine, and Larkmead School.

Lace Hill Finalists of the Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2023.

We are incredibly proud to have been nominated as a Finalist for the Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2023.

A huge congratulations to the team behind our beautifully designed home!

Here at Abingdon Court we've been preparing for the Big RSPB England Bird Watch the in our craft club this week

RSPB England Bird Watch

Everyone at Furze Hill enjoyed a spectacular production of Cinderella which encouraged a lot of interaction from the audience, "Oh no it didn't"

Furze Hill

Our beautiful home looks so festive and even more beautiful in the snow.

Furze Hill

We made and decorated some lovely Christmas cookies!

Christmas Cookies

Our residents spent the afternoon making Christmas cards for their loved ones which will make lovely keepsakes. We then had a Christmassy film and a quiz and everyone enjoyed refreshments.

Christmas Preparations

Baking Club at Gateford Hill

Our residents had a lovely morning baking coconut tarts. It triggered lots of lovely memories when they lived at home and baked for their own families.

Celebrating Christmas Jumper at Kingsbury Court with our residential Snow Man “Frosty”

Christmas Jumper Day

This morning our lovely residents made and decorated gingerbread houses, they all loved talking of Christmas time, the smells and of course the delicious food.

Gingerbread Houses

Christmas has arrived at The Wharf and we are looking forward to welcoming our residents friends & families over the festive season.

Christmas at The Wharf

Christmas preparations were in full swing at Furze Hill Lodge in November and the residents enjoyed wrapping presents and preparing the decorations for our tree.

Christmas Preparations

Christmas Tree Decorating

Our residents have had a lovely afternoon decorating the Christmas tree in another of our lounges today. It triggered lots of lovely memories for them from when they used to decorate their own homes at Christmas time over the years.

We had a lovely day on Friday celebrating Elf day with a family and friends, playing games and quizzes.

Elf Day

More movement was Thursday fun at Chartwell Manor this week. One of our lovely ladies who live with us used to be a PE teacher - so she led the class this morning. 'More' is Maria Mallaband's Lifestyle Programme which allows us to support our residents in doing...More...😊

More Movement

Anyone for cocktails?? Last night we held a Cocktail Tasting Event at Chartwell Manor. Our guests were treated to tasters of Franky's signature cocktails and were given a score card to rate each one...trouble was they were all so good...we couldn't decide!

Cocktail Tasting Event

Halloween Event at Chartwell Manor

We had a spooktacular time this week at Chartwell Manor for our first Halloween event. Thank you to Bea and Carol in our Lifestyle Team and our very talented Chef, Amanda for the truly delicious cupcakes.

It's Hospice Week this week and in appreciation for the incredible work our local hospice,

Hospice Week

Last Friday the team at Chartwell Manor supported the Breast Cancer Awareness Day...Wear it Pink. This charity is very close to our hearts as one of our team is still going through it.

Wear it Pink Day

Diane and Jacqui got stuck in to making some cupcakes and were thoroughly enjoyed by all. Our Lifestyle Team are passionate about meaningful activities to support independence and cooking and baking will be high up on

Who Said Cake???

Diane was treated to a mini pamper session at Chartwell Manor Spa and had a full manicure. Diane used to love going to the beauticians to have her nails painted – we are so lucky to have such a beautiful spa for our residents to use.

Pamper Session

Creating meaningful activities that support independence for the people that live with us is so important. The lifestyle team worked with the catering team to provide an opportunity for people to make their own supper. Everyone had a great time cutting up vegetables for so

Making Soup

We would like to thank everyone who came and supported our MacMillan coffee morning and cake sale. Our kitchen was very busy making some delicious cakes that tasted as good as they looked.

MacMillan Coffee Morning

We enjoyed some autumn themed painting with a twist, we used broccoli to paint with!

Autumn Artwork

We would like to say a huge "Thank you" to everyone who came and supported our Macmillan coffee morning this week. We are so grateful for all the donations and support for this amazing cause.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

As the weather was glorious some of people living us wanted to get out into the sunshine so we visited the local park. We played badminton and ball games and spent quality time and lovely conversation with refreshments.

Park visit

Heading out to the beach it so lovely and for the people living with us somewhere that they love to visit, so we got into minibus and headed to the coast. It was such a lovely day and we had to have an ice cream before we went back.

Trip to the beach

One of the people living with us had a fantastic time getting out to the local shop with our carer Louise. He got to buy himself lots of goodies including his favourite drink Pepsi Max. It was such a beautiful day to take a stroll.

Trip to the shops

Monread Farewell to our Queen

Monday was a strange day, our residents sat in silence as they watched their beloved queen's funeral, the occasional comment on the procession and how very British it is and how great we are at doing it. Some s

Our residents recently enjoyed a visit from some birds of prey. Some were even brave enough to hold them and stroke them. The visit brought a lot of pleasure to everyone. The sun was shining it was such a lovely afternoon.

Birds of Prey

We very much enjoy our coffee mornings and it’s now a weekly occurrence where we go out and enjoy a nice coffee and a chat watching the world go by. There are some strong friendships groups within our Home and we understand the importance of getting out and about in our groups of friends 😊

Coffee Outings

Being apart of the community is important and we have been so lucky to be invited to visit Dorking library with the music community team. The residents have enjoyed dancing and drawing activities as well as reading sessions which has been thoroughly enjoyed by the people taking part.

Dorking Library Visit

Emergency Services Breakfast

We are hugely thankful to the emergency services that are working so hard in our community and we wanted to do something to show them our gratitude. We arranged a takeaway breakfast with tea and coffee for them to pop in and get at the home.

Today we had our regular entertainer in for a sing along, our residents love singing along to all the songs from through out their lives.

Sing a long

Our residents were so thrilled to have a visit from a therapy pony from ‘dinky ponies’ called Poppy. Poppy started her visit in the garden and then went through the home visiting people on her way which was so lovely. Both poppy the pony and our residents loved one another’s company.

Pony Visit

Some ladies that are living with us wanted to get some new shoes and of course we wanted to make that happen for them. We popped off in our transport to the local town.

Shopping for Shoes