Some positivity for this strange Monday morning

Last week Kents Hill Care Home donated 16 Christmas food hampers to

Having a safe place to connect with friends and family is so important for those living in our homes, and this visiting pod does exactly that!

The Mayor of Abingdon recently cut the ribbon on this new visiting pod at Abingdon Court Care Home. Creating it has been a real team effort, with all the staff coming together to design and form this space. It’s already had a great impact on everyone and is testament to the work this home does for those living in it.

This year the local community of Bridlington are coming together creatively for their first Christmas Tree Trail in the theme of ‘Reduce-Reuse-Recycle’. The idea is for people in the local community to use their creativity to produce a Christmas tree using recycled materials. You can either completely make the Christmas tree out of recycled materials or get a Christmas tree and decorate it with recycled materials. Once you have created your Christmas Tree you then display it somewhere that passers by can see it.

Donna McDermott, Care Practitioner at Bowerfield Court, is donating her hair for wigs to be made for people with cancer. Kirsty Randall, Home Manager at Bowerfield Court and Bowerfield House, and Peter Baumber, a resident at Bowerfield Court, cut Donna's hair on Tuesday 15th December in front of residents, staff and relatives who joined via video call. 

Donna is an amazing lady and has raised £600 so far with 24 hours still for people to donate. The money raised will be donated to The Princes Trust and the other half to be decided. 

Staff and residents have been getting festive with their Christmas crafts. Along with a Christmas wreath for the front door, they have made a Christmas brush family and painted festive pebbles for their pebble snake which is on display at the front of their home. All this topped off with the most amazing Christmas cake. It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! 

Staff and residents had such a fun time dressing up as elves for Elf Day -  helping to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. There were definitely a few naughty elves about! 

We made hand made angels to decorate our Christmas tree this year at Troutbeck Care Home. We will be sending our angels out to families for Christmas. 

4th Taplow & Hitcham Brownies have been busy creating these lovely hand made Christmas Cards which have really brightened up the walls and brought more festive joy and cheer to Windmill Care Centre, Slough.

This month we welcomed Katy to the home as an Activity Coordinator and we wanted her to feel welcome. Therefore we created activities that enabled both Katy to get to know our residents but also for our residents to get to know Katy.

There has been lots of hard work at Acorn House with our 'Knit and Natter' session. We had plenty of cups of teas to keep us going, as the ladies added the finishing touches to our blanket and finally got it sewn together. Now for our next project!