Residents received Christmas gifts early in December from Stacey Jenson from Gift Stop and chocolates courtesy of Monk Hesleden Parish Council.  One of our staff dressed up as Santa to take the gifts around to the residents just before Christmas.

Thank you so much for your wonderful gifts, your generosity this year has really kept our spirits up knowing you are all thinking of us.

Big thank you to head office for the lovely gifts for all the staff at Earsdon Grange.  We shared these with the residents and enjoyed a lovely afternoon treat with a cup of tea and some home cooked cakes from the kitchen.

The residents enjoyed a beach party at the home in December.  We built plenty of sand castles whilst wearing sunglasses to keep the sun out of their eyes. We also had a visit from Marcello ice cream and the residents enjoyed going out to pick up their ice creams.

We had a very kind donation from our local Sainsburys who brought lots of cake, chocolates and mince pies for residents and staff to enjoy. Thank you so much for thinking of us and all of the wonderful gifts which we enjoyed over a cuppa at the home.

Christmas this year is a little different for everyone but our fabulously creative, activities coordinator Ellen wanted to make sure the residents still had a Christmas tree they could see and designed one inside our Court yards so that we could all still see and feel the magic of Christmas. We have a Gold tree and silver tree.

Well done Ellen.

We are delighted with our visitors pod at Belmont House and how wonderful it is for our relatives and residents to enjoy a chat and cuppa together.

We have had a blast on 8th December for Elf yourself for Alzheimer's day raising money for an amazing charity which is close to the hearts of all of the staff at Barnes Court. All  of our staff and a  few of the residents dressed up as Elves and it was such a lovely atmosphere.  We then had cake in the afternoon which we enjoyed..

We really enjoyed a chilly afternoon wrapped up warm or just from our window listening to the lovely children and teachers sing for us from Barnes Junior School across the road from us,  It got us all in the Christmas spirit and the residents were overjoyed that the children at the school had remembered them.

Merry Christmas from Astor Court and Lodge

It's been a bit hectic at the home and despite the current restrictions we have still managed to inject a bit of Christmas fun

One of our sister homes' had a wonderful idea of creating resident Christmas pictures to be sent with cards from the residents using a festive backdrop.  It was such a wonderful idea and the residents loved getting into the Christmas spirit.  We took pictures of the residents next to the back drop and popped them in a card which activities organised.  We hope you enjoyed receiving them.

Here are two of our team members warming their hands over the log fire.