Staff and residents had a huge celebration, one of our residents turned 103! A beautiful cake was made for everyone to enjoy.  

At Acorn House they have been blessed to have had a new visiting pod built. All the materials were donated and a kind local joiner form the Blackburn area built it for free. All they wanted was cups of teas and biscuits! A huge shout out of thanks to the gents from AG joinery!

Residents and staff at Abbey View have decorated the home for Christmas. The areas look stunning and it has brought lots of Christmas cheer to everyone!

Here is a picture of our new visitor pod. It looks like it is going to be a successful addition to the home, with our friends and family's booking slots.

Thorntree Mews have their lights up for Christmas. Neighbors are delighted, as are the residents; a bit of festive cheer. Children from the local nursery visited and got their photo taken under the tree and sent us two large drawings they did of the display.

Today at Thorntree Mews, we made some bells for the Christmas jingle. Our residents are looking forward to being part of the big Christmas Eve Jingle, as we explained that people all over the world are taking part. So, everywhere at 6pm people will take part in a 2 minute ringing of the bells. Churches are taking part too.

Such a loving atmosphere in Skell Lodge today, whilst our residents packed food hampers to donate to the Salvation Army. Such a good cause.

The residents at Allingham House enjoyed many Christmas activities last week. We started the week creating beautiful Christmas Cards, that were displayed around the home as part of the Christmas decorations and then we had a session of  baking Christmas biscuits, with different kind of shapes like stars and snowmen. The residents really enjoyed reminiscing about their favourites Christmas recipes and sweets, like mince pies, gingerbread or Christmas pudding.

The residents at Allingham House have got involved in the project ‘Hearts for Schools’ last week. In this project residents from care homes write messages to children from nurseries and schools close to them. In our case, the children from the nursery next door invited us to join them from our garden. The children introduced themselves to the residents and after that we were singing nursery songs together like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Insy Winsy Spider. The children and the residents really enjoyed the session.

Residents at Skell Lodge have been writing Christmas cards to family and friends with special messages.