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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.

Staff and residents have been getting festive with their Christmas crafts. Along with a Christmas wreath for the front door, they have made a Christmas brush family and painted festive pebbles for their pebble snake which is on display at the front of their home.

Christmas Crafts

Staff and residents had such a fun time dressing up as elves for Elf Day - helping to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. There were definitely a few naughty elves about!

We made hand made angels to decorate our Christmas tree this year at Troutbeck Care Home. We will be sending our angels out to families for Christmas.

Angel Decorating

4th Taplow & Hitcham Brownies have been busy creating these lovely hand made Christmas Cards which have really brightened up the walls and brought more festive joy and cheer to Windmill Care Centre, Slough.

Brownies Hand Made Christmas Delivery

A huge thank you to Matron Sue and Sister Maria from Wexham Park Hospital A&E who delivered a personalised gift and card for every one living at Windmill Care Home, Slough today, along with a few little extras to ensure that any new arrivals who may come into join us a

Special Delivery from Wexham Park Hospital staff

This month we welcomed Katy to the home as an Activity Coordinator and we wanted her to feel welcome. Therefore we created activities that enabled both Katy to get to know our residents but also for our residents to get to know Katy.

Getting to know you with Katy

There has been lots of hard work at Acorn House with our 'Knit and Natter' session. We had plenty of cups of teas to keep us going, as the ladies added the finishing touches to our blanket and finally got it sewn together. Now for our next project!

Knit and Natter Session

Staff and residents had a huge celebration, one of our residents turned 103! A beautiful cake was made for everyone to enjoy.

Resident's 103rd Birthday

At Acorn House they have been blessed to have had a new visiting pod built. All the materials were donated and a kind local joiner form the Blackburn area built it for free. All they wanted was cups of teas and biscuits! A huge shout out of thanks to the gents from AG joinery!

Residents and staff at Abbey View have decorated the home for Christmas. The areas look stunning and it has brought lots of Christmas cheer to everyone!

Christmas Decorating

Here is a picture of our new visitor pod. It looks like it is going to be a successful addition to the home, with our friends and family's booking slots.

Thorntree Mews have their lights up for Christmas. Neighbors are delighted, as are the residents; a bit of festive cheer. Children from the local nursery visited and got their photo taken under the tree and sent us two large drawings they did of the display.

Christmas Lights

Today at Thorntree Mews, we made some bells for the Christmas jingle. Our residents are looking forward to being part of the big Christmas Eve Jingle, as we explained that people all over the world are taking part. So, everywhere at 6pm people will take part in a 2 minute ringing of the bells.

Christmas Eve Bells

Such a loving atmosphere in Skell Lodge today, whilst our residents packed food hampers to donate to the Salvation Army. Such a good cause.

Salvation Army Food Donation

The residents at Allingham House enjoyed many Christmas activities last week.

Christmas Activities

The residents at Allingham House have got involved in the project ‘Hearts for Schools’ last week. In this project residents from care homes write messages to children from nurseries and schools close to them.

Hearts for Schools Project

Residents at Skell Lodge have been writing Christmas cards to family and friends

Christmas Card Writing

Residents were treated to an early Christmas party with fun, games and amazing food, with staff also receiving gifts.

Skell's Christmas Party

Troutbeck care home in Ilkley has donated items which will contribute to the 2020 Christmas foodbank appeal. Items ranging from Selection boxes, Christmas cakes/puddings and hygiene products.

Salvation Army Christmas Food Banl Appeal

Christmas jumper day was enjoyed by many at Kents Hill Care Home; the residents enjoyed an afternoon of tea and cake and all joined in with some festive singing too

Christmas Jumper Day

Getting in the swing of festive treats at Kents Hill Care Home today with these delicious Christmas tree gingerbread.

Gingerbread Tree's

Merry Christmas from staff and residents at Bowerfield House. We are all getting ready here for Christmas and having lots of fun decorating our Christmas tree.

Bowerfield House Christmas Tree

Residents had a lovely afternoon decorating our Christmas trees lots of reminiscing and smiles – Merry Christmas from residents and staff at Cavendish Court.

Christmas Cavendish

We decorated three trees with staff and residents coming together with ideas and a helping hand, and we think a good job was done by all, many thanks to all.

Christmas Tree Competition

Staff and residents at the Belvedere were busy dressing one of our Christmas trees. Many smiles this afternoon from staff and residents.

Christmas Belvedere

Christmas Westbourne

Our Roast dinner was simply the best, made by a true Yorkshire man (our Chef Gareth) Roasted Lamb cooked to perfection, chantenay carrots glazed in honey, tender cauliflower and delicate peas, topped off with

Christmas Decorating

We here at Clumber Court would like to say a big thank you to all the children at Sutton Cum Lound School who have made these beautiful Christmas trees for our residents!

It is very much appreciated by both staff and residents.

Naughty elf being not so naughty and pouring the tea and coffee for the ladies at coffee morning although his singing along with the Christmas tunes was a little pitchy.....

We at Knights Court really pride ourselves on creative arts and crafts. Check out some of the creativity of our residents over the last few weeks!

Here at Knights Court we gave one of our unsuspecting residents a surprise birthday treat. During the lockdown. One of our residents who was turning 90 years old thought his birthday would be just another ordinary day.

Elf Day at Kents Hill Care Home was enjoyed by all; staff dressed up, the residents enjoyed an afternoon of tea, cake and a festive sing along.

Elf Day at Kents Hill Care Home

Dear Cavendish Court

I write to thank the staff at Cavendish Court in Alderley Edge.

Thank You From Relative

Riverview celebrated St Andrews Day with Afternoon high tea and Scottish treats.

Residents enjoyed Scotland traditional Music and Bagpipes playing in the lounge.

St Andrews Day High Tea

With Christmas just around the corner Santa's Workshop started it's work.

Santa's Workshop

Each year it has been left for activities to decorate the home, this year we wanted to shake it up a little.

Brunel House Christmas Decoration Competition

We are still getting out and about in the mini bus as much as possible to take advantage of the crisp winter days. Our recent visit to Nunney Castle and Farleigh Hungerford Castle was a beautiful day.

December is going to be a fun filled month of Christmas celebrations at White Rose Lodge Care Home in Bridlington. Click on the below link to see what we have planned.

December Events at White Rose Lodge

Croft House celebrated Elf Day on Friday 4th December, raising money for Alzheimer’s Society. Everyone had such a good day enjoying lots treats, guess the elf and advent games.

Residents and staff filled the home with laughter all day.

Elf Day at Croft House

Chestnut Court were celebrating after reaching the finals of the national Care Home Heroes Team Award. The award run by the respected industry publication, Care Home Professional, recognised, "...the care professionals who pulled together as a team to not only ensure the safe

Care Home Heroes

We began a sporting championship this month, starting with darts. This enabled residents to become competitive in their gaming which many appeared to thoroughly enjoy.

Sporting Championship

Residents enjoyed looking through old pictures of the local areas, old soaps and spinning tops. A lovely afternoon reminiscing.

Reminiscing Afternoon for Residents at Croft House

Croft House are looking forward to Christmas and lots of activities in the run up to Christmas day with many arts and crafts sessions to look forward to. Please click on the below newsletter for further details including information on our raffle.

December Events at Croft House

Julie our activities lady has made this fabulous cake as a roast dinner. It's amazing with the detail of the vegetables, roast potatoes and the chicken more than the wow factor. Troutbeck residents loved pouring chocolate gravy over the cake that was in a cake gravy pot, can you believe it!

Roast Dinner Cake

We had a surprise delivery today from the Nantwich and District Soroptimist society of some Christmas cards that were numbered 1 to 24, (two lots, one for the weaver suite and one for the bluebell suite) for our residents to open each day as an advent calendar, with a message and questions inside

Advent Calendar Gift

It was wonderful to see the men at The Westbourne so enthusiastic about the fitting of a new kitchen. Conversation about DIY successes over the years and a few disasters too whilst watching the kitchen being fitted and recognising many of the tools in the tool box!

We celebrated Guy Fawkes Night/Bonfire Night with fireworks at River View.

Winter brings the festive season and the activities team have a jam-packed winter and seasonal activities calendar coming their way.

Warming Winter Drinks

Biscuit decorating

Biscuit Decoration