We recently celebrated International country and western day in style at a Hoedown at Kings Court. There were hot dogs and cheese bites and of course plenty of country music with inflatable guitars for those that wanted to join in.  It was a fun day all around.

Allingham House was nominated on three of the Care Award categories. All our nominees received a trophy as a recognition for the hard and devoted work that they deliver every day in our home. Also, John Harte, one of our nominees was awarded with the Maintenance Person Of The Year. Our kitchen staff prepared an amazing buffet that residents and staff enjoyed together.

It's always nice to go out for a drink at the seaside in Donaghadee and watch the horses playing in the water. Cheers from Abbey View!

As Winter is drawing closer we know that there won’t be as much colour in the garden.  To be prepared we used our  ‘Gardening Fun’ session to paint stones this week to put in the garden and add some colour for us all to enjoy.

As part of the “National Arts in Care Homes’ day, we took advantage of the beautiful early Autumn weather and took out art outside.  One person who lives at Woodland decided to take a walk around the garden for inspiration and then drew what she saw.

Later this month a circus entertainer will visit Woodlands and in preparation for this we have been creating different elements to make a circus tent display. We have used different textures to do this including puffy paint, glitter and tissue paper. 

A splash of colour was added to the dining room tables today at Hope Green when we decided to get together and organise flower posies. Three of our ladies lovingly arranged the autumnal colours and placed them with care around the dining area as a little surprise at lunch time. It was great to listen to the ladies chatting and working together as a team. Much appreciated and enjoyed by everyone!

Bowerfield House has started decorating our home for Halloween and its looking great and very spooky, residents and staff enjoyed cutting out faces in our pumpkins. Our winner at Bowerfield House 2021 was carer Ellie. We had so much fun but it was a messy job to empty the pumpkins, we talked about what we love about pumpkins and what we can make out of them. Some of the answers were, pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies and spice pumpkin latte, there are so many foods you can make from a pumpkin, they're not just for decoration at Halloween,

Healthy body equals to a healthy mind and so being active is a priority at Mary Chapman Court.  Two of the favourite activities are Fly Balloon, which always starts the laughter and good old catch which always highlights the budding tennis aces in our midst.

The Belvedere enjoyed celebrating our Annual Care Awards last month. We filled our lounge with our wonderful residents and staff to watch the ceremony which celebrated all of MMCG's amazing staff within the company. We enjoyed a buffet with lots of cake and non alcoholic fizz which went down a treat especially with our residents. Were all very proud of our fellow colleagues and send a huge congratulations to all that were nominated and who won.