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.

This week we did the hanging baskets for the back garden and the front entrance which we decorated with ribbons. 

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.

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

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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. 

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

Kept thinking that this virus would just grind us down

But then we spent so many hours fighting for everybody's lives

That we grew strong and we learned how to carry on

Go on now go, walk out the door

Just keep on going cos we don't want you anymore

We will survive.

We will survive

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. 

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. 

The banner is in pride of place at the front of the home and we have received many compliments for cheering the Community and creating a focal point. We hope you see it next time you drive down High Street and think of us.

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.

We have given our reception area a rainbow makeover so our amazing team have a hero's welcome each time they arrive for work. Thank you to you all, you are all fantastic.

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.

Thank you so much to you all for this truly amazing gift, we are so grateful to you for thinking of us during this time.

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.

A big thank you to West Allotment Club for their kind donations of tea, coffee and biscuits for all staff at home and a selection of toiletries for the residents. These are all greatly appreciated and the residents were delighted to receive them from you.