One of our very talented activities team started hairdressing on a Saturday during the lockdown whilst our usual hairdresser was unable to visit. The Saturday Salon proved to be so popular it carried on and continues to be a popular and busy event. 

Ashmead has created a library within its Bluebell Lounge for the residents' full use. The activity team will also utilise the library to host book clubs as well as reading and discussion sessions on a regular basis. The people who live at Ashmead can easily keep abreast of media stories and events occurring in the local area. 

At Deepdene we enjoy our regular visits within the local area, the park and then for coffee and a cake is one of the favourites.

The maintenance team at Ashmead recently excelled themselves in the homemade construction of a feature bar, located in our Primrose Unit lounge. 

The bar, made mainly from recycled materials will act as a prime feature during future events.  Those already on the calendar are the Wimbledon Semi Finals on Friday 9th July 21 and The Euro Football Final at Wembley on Sunday 11th July 21  when England face Italy.

Today the residents at Mary Chapman started a new music group where we sang, danced and played our instruments. Watch this space, we may start our own rock band next! 

A fun day was had by all yesterday, it was the first time we were able to safely invite family to our outdoor celebration. 

Residents at Hope Green enjoyed an afternoon of creativity together. It's always interesting to see how individually creative we all are and to listen to everyone's positive comments about the things that we make. The colours and shapes that we used were a definite 'hit' as our final creations sparkled in the sunlight as we put them on the tables but also on the windows too.

Our residents have been busy adding to our garden family by painting Bees, Ladybirds and Hedgehogs, they've also been potting plants which adds lots of colour to our garden and makes it a lovely place to sit in the sunshine. 

It's safe to say that a day dedicated to chocolate was always going to be a hit with both residents and staff here at Bowerfield Court. We held a chocolate tasting competition and our receptionist Whitney was definitely our chief taster guessing all the flavours correctly. These were raspberry, marzipan, mint, orange, honeycomb and strawberry.

We had a wonderful NHS Big Tea Party on Monday in between the showers and managed to raise money to support Airedale General & Community Hospital. Thank you to all who supported our event.