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.

Residents at Corinthian House enjoyed the afternoon in the garden planting new flowers in the raised flower beds. Everyone loved listening and having a discussion where the different flowers should be planted to make sure they had enough sun light and shade.

Gardening at Corinthian House

Astor Court and Lodge Care Home on Lamb Street in Cramlington were delighted to get a very special parcel from the pupils of Whyting Middle School and some fabulous letters and drawings which we took around to the residents so that they could see you'd been thinking of us during this time.

Letters from Whyting Middle School

Garden Hill Care Home on St Michael's Avenue was delighted to have Kevin come and sing for us in the car park. We all pulled up a chair in the conservatory and watched as Kevin sang our favourites to us.

Garden Party at Garden Hill

Our residents are managing amazingly well and keeping busy at Windmill Court during these difficult times, but we are all missing friends and family.

We are sending these keyrings to them to let them know we are well and thinking of them.

Keyrings for Families

Carolyn, Carer at Glennie House Care Home braves the shave on Monday 18th May to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Please see below link to Carolyn's go fund me page.

Carolyn Braves The Shave

We have been spending a lot of April working on decorating our garden, making the most of the lovely sunshine.

Residents have made some lovely wind chimes which we coloured and painted birds on to hang in the garden.

Many kind thoughts and good wishes sent to staff and residents from our local community – thank you for your lovely cards and pictures from all at The Belvedere.

Kind Thoughts and Good Wishes

Please click on the below link to see our newsletter for May

Newsletter.pdf

Cavendish Court's May Newsletter

A big thank you to ECFR in Disley for the North West Ambulance Service who have kindly donated free PPE face shields to Bowerfield Court.

PPE Face Shields Donation

Residents and staff at Bowerfield House have been busy gardening, potting and watering plants as the weather has been lovely this April. A big thank you to one of our residents family members who donated some bedding plants as their garden centre had to close.

Easter Weekend at Bowerfield House

Lovely surprise today at Cavendish Court with a smashing gift from our local Waitrose – magazines, orchids and hand wash. Thank you so much for your kind thoughts from all at Cavendish Court.

Waitrose Donation for Cavendish Court

We have just received these beautiful flowers as a thankyou to all staff. Thank you to MA for your kind thoughts form all at Troutbeck.

Thank You Flowers

Thank you to Sara and her team at Able World who have donated 20 face shields to Clarendon Court which they purchased at their own expense.

A massive thank you from the staff and management and we look forward to seeing you all soon.

Thank You Able World

We all know that hand washing is key at this unprecedented time and Claire our Home Manager made up a little ditty to help us wash our hands.

Sing along to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive":

First we were afraid, we were petrified

Belmont House Hand Washing

Thank you so much to Drakes Fish and Chips for your generous and thoughtful gift to the home. We really appreciated it and everyone felt so cherished.

Drakes Fish and Chips

Belmont House Care Home on High Street in Starbeck were delighted to be approached by the Stray Ferret to feature in their article about clap for hero’s on a Thursday evening at 8pm. As always we were outside at 8pm clapping for our colleagues, NHS workers and key workers.

Clap for Key Workers

Belmont House on High Street, Starbeck wanted to design a banner for the home. The activities team designed the banner and with help from the residents in Promenade Suite this was painted. We have concentrated on the colour blue to support the NHS.

Stay Home, Save Lives

We wanted to say thank you to our amazing team at Buckingham House who come to work every day with a smile on their face.

Heroes' Welcome

We were delighted to receive an email from one of our past resident's relatives to say they were thinking of us all at Ashfield Court and had arranged for a gift of biscuits and tea bags from Betty's Tea Rooms for all of the staff.

Betty's Tea Room Gift

Here at Earsdon Grange we have been so delighted with all of the lovely community spirit and wanted to say thank you to let them know how much we appreciate them.

Community Spirit at Earsdon Grange

Once again we were touched by the generosity of local people thinking of others in these troubled times.

Fee's food in Rock donated 60 slices of delicious homemade cake and our local charity Concern Wadebridge delivered a large selection of Easter eggs to Windmill Court Care Home.

Kind Donation to Windmill Court

We were really thankful to receive this lovely delivery to our home. A local family who are members of Burton Girls Brigade baked some delicious cakes for our residents and staff. It really brightened our day and we are so touched that they were thinking about us.

Delicious Cakes from Burton Girls Brigade

Howgate House staff member doubles up as a Barber providing a trim for our gentlemen. Social protection observed.

Fresh Hair Cut for Gentlemen at Howgate House

A big thank you to our local community for the lovely gifts

A wonderful drawing from High Lane scouts and a fabulous donation of sweets from local company Swizzels for staff and residents to enjoy.

High Lane Scouts Fabulous Drawing

Thank you to the resident's family member who made this smashing sign for the team at Bowerfield House. Such a lovely thoughtful idea and it looks wonderful just outside the main door where everyone can see it.

Thank you sign at Bowerfield House

Bowerfield Court and Bowerfield House would like to say a big thank you to Susan Butler who has kindly donated 50 mask comforters. These support general face masks by relieving the pressure of the elastic on ears.

Mask Comforters Donation

'Poke an egg, win a prize' was a treat for residents and staff. Everyone had the chance to poke one of the eggs during our Easter celebration and buffet. Each one was a Easter chocolate winner, but a special 8 of them included larger prizes as well.

Easter Celebrations at Bowerfield Court

Residents at Bowerfield Court have created bird houses to hang in the gardens at the home. They enjoyed painting them and are looking forward to seeing the birds enjoy them too.

Creating Bird Houses

Recently residents at Cavendish Court have been receiving some beautiful postcards of kindness which have made everyone smile. We are excited about replying to our new friends much love Cavendish Court.

Postcards of Kindness

Thank you for the special delivery of chocolate brownies at Hope Green Care Home from a family of one of our residents. They got delivered with a lovely message of thanks.

Chocolate Brownies Delivery

Some more lovely home made cakes donated to our staff by ‘Carol from Heathrow Airport’. Today were some very delicious butterfly cakes and a banana sponge cake.

Thank you Carol for your home baked treats which were really appreciated by the staff on duty.

This lovely home made cake was given to us by ‘Carol from Heathrow Airport’ for our staff to enjoy.

She promised to make more soon so that we have something nice to look forward to. Thank you so much Carole, it was delicious and really appreciated by everyone.

By Special Delivery

Staff at Windmill Care Centre surprised Home Manager Wendy with this beautiful bouquet of flowers, a gift and chocolate cake to celebrate her 2nd work anniversary. “It was a lovely surprise as I hadn't even realised that I had been here 2 years already!” said Wendy.

Happy Work Anniversary Wendy

Chatwins coffee and cakes a local Nantwich company surprised us at all at Clarendon Court by dropping off this beautiful selection of cakes for residents and staff.

Chatwins Coffee and Cake

A massive thank you to the team at JS Bailey Cheeses Nantwich who kindly dropped of a fantastic selection of cheeses for staff and residents at Clarendon Court .

Very tasty and went down a treat .

Thank you JS Bailey Cheeses

Sandra Senior, Care Manager at Cavendish Court Care Home showed her appreciation of her teams hard work and thank them for the fabulous job they are doing by handing out personalised pens to every member of staff. Such a thoughtful gift.

A big thank you to all staff

This lovely hamper and artwork from the children at Pangbourne Primary School really made us smile and brightened up everyone’s day – especially with such a selection of our favourite biscuits inside! Thank you to everyone.

Pangbourne Primary School

Jez and Rachel Felwick of The Bowler Meatballs Company generously donated a large box of meals for our staff.

Hot Meals for Staff

A huge thank you to these Pangbourne residents for their generosity and support. They were able to organise the delivery of some additional PPE for our staff members with 2 boxes of face visors direct from Bloc Blinds in Northern Ireland.

Pangbourne Community Support

Rainbow wishes from all residents and staff at Bridge House.

Ashfield Court in Tewit Well Road in Harrogate received such a sweet surprise delivery in the form of gorgeous cakes from Spa Surgery from the staff and GP's. We would just like to say from all at the home a huge thank you and we really do appreciate them and won't forget your kindness.

Surprise and Delight for Ashfield Court

A lovely thank you poem and card received from a family member.

Thank you card_0.pdf

Here at Earsdon Grange Care Home in on Thorntree Drive in Wellfield we are all prepared for whatever these challenging times may throw at us. We wanted the residents to feel comfortable with us in our PPE so we thought we would dress up like Earsdon's Angel's to make them smile. It als

Eardon Grange Angels

We also had a lovely surprise from ‘Sedgefield locality team’ at Willowdene Care Home on Lizards Lane in Sedgefield. One of the team dropped off lots of gorgeous treats for the staff with a lovely card which really touched us. We are so grateful to think people are thinking of us all

Willowdene treats from Sedgefield Locality Team

The community spirit came to Field View Care Home on Hesleden Road in Blackhall. They were delighted to receive some truly, amazing donations from the community who wanted to let them know Field View were in their thoughts.

Community Spirit at Field View

Thank you to our local Chinese restaurant who donated 600 masks last week to Wyndham Hall Care Home.

Donation of masks

Local company Swizzels dropped off a selection of sweets for the staff and residents of Hope Green.

Massive thank you to staff and management at Swizzels from all at Hope Green.

Thank you Swizzels

Thank you for the flowers and amazing chocolates sent to Hope Green from one of our resident's daughter's.

Thank you from Hope Green

There's nothing like a pamper session with aromatherapy oils especially during the current circumstances. We are lucky at Kents Hill Care Home to have our activities coordinator on the Dementia Suite who is qualified in hand massage and aromatherapy oils.

Pamper Sessions at Kents Hill

Here at Willowdene Care Home we will be clapping for all of the carers at Maria Mallaband and Countrywide at 8pm along with other care workers in social care and NHS. Every Thursday night, Ruth Sunter, Manager at Willowdene Care Home on Lizards Lane stands outside her house and claps f

Clap for Carers