Pippa the PAT dog joined the team at Hope Green and was welcomed by everyone including our manager who was delighted to get involved. Pippa's owner has a wealth of knowledge about dogs too so residents were very keen to ask lots of questions and find out all about Pippa, who is now 10years old. The benefits of PAT dogs is widely appreciated and we are very grateful to have such a lovely addition to our team. Pippa will now be visiting us regularly when she can fit us in her diary so we're going to have treats ready for her next visit.

We all know how good it is to move and our amazing trained lifestyle team at Buckingham House love hosting some fun and motivating movement classes for everyone to enjoy.

We had a fantastic entertainer in to Buckingham House who got all the people living with us singing along with him.  He sang a great range of songs for us all that even got some people dancing, it was a great afternoon.

Who doesn't love cake and here at Buckingham House we love to give the people living with us a freshly baked cake for their birthday.  Each cake being as unique as the people living with us.

We were delighted to welcome Molly from The Alzheimer's Society Research to collect a cheque from everyone at The Hawthorns.  We raised £400 from an Easter Raffle and a Spring Fate that we held recently. To celebrate we arranged refreshments and awesome Cup Cakes for the residents and staff.  Everyone really enjoyed the afternoon and Molly was delighted to except the cheque.  Thank you to everyone who donated and supported this cause.

The people living at the home wanted to do some flower arranging, which they really enjoyed this whilst having a cup of tea listening to music. 

The people living at the home love to do some flower arranging so we decided to get some flowers. There was a good turn out for this activity and it brightened our lovely home with lovely smell and colour.   Everyone was very engaged with this activity and enjoyed placing the final flower displays around our home.

We thoroughly enjoyed meeting with KEMP Hospice and are so delighted to be sponsoring their forthcoming ‘Butterfly Release’ event to be held at Bodenham Arboretum. This will be taking place on Saturday 10th September.

This very special day will see our local community join together to personally release their own Painted lady butterfly into the beautiful, butterfly friendly grounds whilst remembering their loved one.

It was just wonderful for the team and some of our ladies and gentlemen to be able to start planning this unique and memorable  day. 

We love our Oomph exercise class led by Tom at Kings Manor Care Home, movement is so important and this class is so fun the people living at the home look forward to it.

For National Cheese Day we had another cheese and wine evening, it was enjoyed so much last time we had even more residents choose to join us for this one.  We think that we might have to do this again soon.  There was a lovely selection of cheese and crackers served with refreshments.