Our stories

As we have an adverse weather warning the heat is getting to many of us, however we remain positive and continue to smile. Keep a thought to the people working in heat.

There are things you can do to help:

1. Keep curtains closed and lights off when possible,

We had a wonderful trip out to the pub in August and enjoyed sitting outside and having a couple of drinks.

Memory spinners with Scottish opera in St. Columbus church Glasgow, after 8 weeks of training the show was ready for the performance in front of family and friends. What a show it was .. everything looked amazing and all came together to a standing ovation.

Here are some of our lovely Carer’s celebrating “MMCG Carers Appreciation Day “ at Willowdene they all received certificate’s a pen and enjoyed cup cakes a lovely morning was had by all.

Thank you for all you do each and everyday at Willowdene.

We are delighted to announce that Carmen Lewis and Laura Tompkins have achieved a place on the 2022/2023 Care Practitioner course.

We know they will be amazing. Such a fantastic achievement. Well done ladies.

We had so much fun designing and trying the games out for our Summer Fayre in August.  Making sure they all worked as we planned and giving us lots of practice before the summer fayre.  We hope it will be lovely weather for us to raise some money for a good cause.

We had a very special birthday in July when Mary celebrated her 90th birthday with us.  As always we had cake’s and a singsong and made the day as special as possible for Mary.  She had such a lovely day celebrating with the residents before a visit with her family.

Our first trip out since covid, we used the local bus services, and went to the cinema, we watched Elvis. There was lots of dancing and a few tears, an amazing film but very sad indeed.  Our residents loved it and we are already planning for more trips out.

We celebrated National Sister’s Day in August and organised an arts and craft session to show our sisters that we love them here at Willowbank.  We all made cards for the residents in the home and wrote them a little message which we popped into an envelope ready for Sisters Day on 7th Augus

We have enjoyed delivering an assortment of puzzles and games this afternoon to Amy Senior who is the Community Fundraiser for Dementia Forward in North Yorkshire.

We celebrated the annual MMCG/Countrywide Care awards at the home in July with a buffet for the staff to enjoy and celebrate our colleagues in the region who were up for awards.  We were delighted for everyone who won not only from our region but throughout the company.

Our staff and our Courtyard residents celebrating Yorkshire Day the Yorkshire way today, ey by gum.

What a fantastic time we have had with the residents and staff preparing for The Famous Jersey Battle of Flowers .

Lots of hard work but what incredible results.

Well done to everyone involved and especially our Lifestyle Co-ordinator, Ioana for her brilliant creativity

It was smiles all round in the summer sunshine as we gathered in the garden to show our own creative flair. Our competition was a great way to bring residents together and celebrate our own uniqueness whilst enjoying the friendship too.

As part of this week activity, we prepared some desserts for the Carte D'or competition, we were very proud of the end result.

Its not everyday that you get to celebrate a Platinum wedding anniversary, 70 years being married is such an achievement.  Living at the home, the couple wanted to celebrate the day with their friends and family so we created a space for them to enjoy the special day together.

Having our own cafe at Water Royd allows us to create a different social space for the people living with us.  It was so enjoyable to host a coffee morning which was enjoyed by all.  The cakes were also a big hit with everyone.

People living with us love the outdoors and so we got out playing table top games outside in the sunshine and enjoyed some refreshments.