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.

We celebrated International Cheese and Wine Day at Monread with a selection of our favourite wines, paired with the perfect combination of cheese and grapes - it went down a treat with the people living with us and proved to be a delicious afternoon.

International Cheese and Wine Day at Monread

River View Care Centre got behind the England Ladies Football Team this weekend to wish them luck for Sundays Final. And wow!! congratulations and thank you for making history.

River View Watches The Women's Euros

This week Birch Heath Lodge welcomed Ian and Elaine from Lower Moss Wood Sanctuary. We were treated to a informative talk on the sanctuary and the opportunity to meet some of the Stunning Owls. Everyone who participated was mesmerized and the brave were able to stroke the beautiful birds.

Pippa the PAT dog joined the team at Hope Green and was welcomed by everyone including our manager who was delighted to get involved. Pippa's owner has a wealth of knowledge about dogs too so residents were very keen to ask lots of questions and find out all about Pippa, who is now 10years old.

Visit From Pippa

We all know how good it is to move and our amazing trained lifestyle team at Buckingham House love hosting some fun and motivating movement classes for everyone to enjoy.

We had a fantastic entertainer in to Buckingham House who got all the people living with us singing along with him. He sang a great range of songs for us all that even got some people dancing, it was a great afternoon.

Who doesn't love cake and here at Buckingham House we love to give the people living with us a freshly baked cake for their birthday. Each cake being as unique as the people living with us.

We were delighted to welcome Molly from The Alzheimer's Society Research to collect a cheque from everyone at The Hawthorns. We raised £400 from an Easter Raffle and a Spring Fate that we held recently.

Cheque Presentation

The people living at the home wanted to do some flower arranging, which they really enjoyed this whilst having a cup of tea listening to music.

Flower Arranging

The people living at the home love to do some flower arranging so we decided to get some flowers. There was a good turn out for this activity and it brightened our lovely home with lovely smell and colour.

Flower Arranging

We thoroughly enjoyed meeting with KEMP Hospice and are so delighted to be sponsoring their forthcoming ‘Butterfly Release’ event to be held at Bodenham Arboretum. This will be taking place on Saturday 10th September.

KEMP Hospice 'Butterfly Release' community event

We love our Oomph exercise class led by Tom at Kings Manor Care Home, movement is so important and this class is so fun the people living at the home look forward to it.

For National Cheese Day we had another cheese and wine evening, it was enjoyed so much last time we had even more residents choose to join us for this one. We think that we might have to do this again soon.

National Cheese Day

The people living with us wanted to go on trip to Stover lake for a lovely walk and a picnic. There was lots of wild life to look on the walk around and the lake was beautiful. The residents had a lovely day and are looking forward to going back again.

We had the wonderful Deborah from musical delights visit us earlier this month.

There was a party atmosphere with lots of dancing, arm waving and clapping along.

Musical Delights

We have been using the new bowling equipment, the residents love this activity and it gets very competitive.

FAB DAY WITH IAN FROM MUSIC IN MIND SINGING IN THE SUNSHINE, THE RESIDENTS REALLY ENJOYED THE AFTERNOON JOINING IN AND SINGING ALONG.

National Scotch Day was celebrated with pub crawl and scotch tasting! We set up our own bar and had residents taste test the scotch and see what flavours they found. We also enjoyed some pub snacks and other refreshments.

National Scotch Day

Our pup visitor Tia, is a regular visitor and brings joy to everyone. Pup day is a favourite activity for most of our residents. Tia has touched their hearts, listened to their troubles and brought company. The unconditional love she brings is returned tenfold by our doting residents.

Of course it had to happen, singing and dancing along to Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday. Enid and Helen showing us how it's done!

The people living with us got involved with making lavender bags today. The lavender was stripped from one of our own plants, then square pieces of material were sewn together and filled with lavender. To finish we added a nice piece of ribbon to make the bags look more decorative.

The people living with us had a lovely morning making cupcakes and then helping to decorate them afterwards. The cakes will be served with afternoon tea this afternoon so everyone can enjoy them. Yummy!

We love to Bake

One of our residents, Philip, enjoyed a lovely afternoon watering the plants, flowers and tomatoes in our greenhouse. He used to garden with his dad so this brought back many happy memories.

With the weather cooling down we enjoyed a walk and getting out into the fresh air. With our home being in a rural location we are lucky to be close to our local duck pond. How lucky we are to have such a beauty spot on our door step?

Our Local Duck Pond

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY WITH DOROTHY AND CAROLINE, TWO OF OUR LOVELY RESIDENTS, THEY ENJOYED THE WEATHER WITH A ICE CREAM AT MARCH MILL TAVERN.

March Mill Tavern Visit

The home was visited again this week by the ice cream man! Which was a lovely way to cool down in the heat. Residents enjoyed coming outside to pick what they wanted and listen to the music.

Ice Cream Van Visit

Following the visit with our new best friend 'Billy the donkey' our residents have been creating the most amazing artwork, this picture is just fantastic and really captures Billy's lovely personality. We really can't wait for his next visit.

Artwork Of Billy

Yesterday we had a trip to saint George's Hall.

The ladies were blown away with the live Ballet, Jazz and Tap Wonderland performance.

Some of our own shining stars Danced through the night.

A truly magical evening.

Although it was a bit drizzly outside our Summer Sing and Smile still went ahead as we moved indoors. Residents’ families joined us for an afternoon of live music, as we all sang and danced to our favourite songs. A wonderful afternoon full of joy and smiles.

Summer Sing and Smile

Men’s club was enjoyed this week where we themed it about our jobs and where we worked along with our regular games like the dart board and competitive bean bag throwing.

Our lovely residents had individual visits in their rooms during this week. Some chose to have a book read to them, for others a sensory session was done. We were able to get a very joyful reaction from one of our residents during the session.

Sensory Session

We had a wonderful time together celebrating a resident’s birthday.

Birthday Celebrations

Earlier in the month Birch Heath Lodge held their summer community BBQ, here are a few highlights of the event.

Community Summer BBQ

Dorothy and Anita enjoyed the afternoon last week with a choc ice and entertainment outside in the lovely sunshine.

Afternoon In The Sun

We have been making the most of the sunny weather getting as many residents in the garden as possible and playing games in the sunshine.

Enjoying The Sun

Donning our sun hats we took a visit to the garden to check on the plants and give them some much needed water, tidying up plant pots as we went. Afterwards, the residents took a well earned rest in the shade, chatting and enjoying the garden.

Residents enjoyed making their own fruit kebabs to cool down in the heat.

We used an old Meds Trolley to make a Snack Shack for our Residents here at Troutbeck, it is filled with goodies very kindly donated from Yorkshire Cleaning and Maintenance.

It's always a nice surprise to have treats and we have lots of choice of crisps, sweets and chocolate bars

Natalie Smith celebrated her 10 years of service at Alexandra Court. Natalie's dedication to the residents, families and colleagues has no bounds, she’s a true GEM and an asset to MMCG . We cant wait to have a slice of the celebration chocolate cake!

10 Years Of Service

Our Hearts and Craft session is always a winner we love to get creative and flowers and Butterfly were the favourites this session.

Arts and Crafts

We surprised one of our colleagues with a baby shower party, none of our residents had experienced a baby shower so this was an entirely new experience for them. We had hand made baby cupcakes, a 3 tired nappy cake, drinks games and gifts.

Baby Shower Party

And our donkey 'Billy' has arrived, no beach party is complete without a donkey! Can't wait for our residents to meet him.

We are all ready to go. Sue is our gorgeous bar tender, shaking those cocktails (or mocktails!), Joseph and Stephen are on barbeque duty and the food is looking fantastic.

BBQ and Cocktails

Sometimes nothing can beat watching a great movie, along with a bag of our favourite sweets and a nice cool drink.

Movie afternoon at Monread

We hosted our very own Hawaiian Party at the home on Friday. It was a fantastic day that was enjoyed by the people living at the home and the team here too.

Promoting choice at Kings Manor Care Home is really important to the team. Giving people living at the home an opportunity to pick and build their own fruit kebab was so much fun. It was really interesting watching what fruits people loved too.

To celebrate National Ice Cream day yesterday we had local business Lola Vintage Ice Cream, who arrived with her ice creams & retro sweets for our families and residents.
Everyone really enjoyed the event and sampled many different flavours that were available.

National Ice Cream Day

Steve our Customer Relations Manager met with the Head Teacher & Admin Team providing Goodie Bags and Ice Creams for them at Lace Hill Academy. They discussed that they want to incorporate the home into the Academy Curriculum for 2022/2023 school year.

Partnering with local school

One of the lovely people living with us really wanted to surprise her parents with a celebration for their 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary.

50th Wedding Celebrations

The people living at Water Royd enjoyed a nice afternoon in the garden and loved our singer Denise who entertained and had a nice sing and dance with everyone. We made sure everyone had some nice fresh cold ice lolly's and refreshments in the sunny weather.

Singing Outside