Residents and staff at Parksprings Care Home have created over 100 'High Tea' gift boxes, filled with goodies for our local heroes. The residents coloured in rainbows to decorate each box and the Rosie, Activity Coordinator and Michelle, Deputy Manager, delivered them to the local hospitals, police and fire stations. They were thrilled that they had been thought of and thoroughly enjoyed the treats.

Residents and staff were celebrating after Buckingham House Care Home was named Care Home of the Year 2020 at the recent Maria Mallaband Care Group and Countrywide Care Homes Annual Care Awards. 

Residents and staff of Windmill Court Care Home were celebrating after their colleague Jemma Hartley won the award for the “Most Innovative Activities Programme” at the recent Maria Mallaband Care Group and Countrywide Care Homes Annual Care Awards.  It was a double celebration as Mark Langridge was also a finalist in “Maintenance Person of the Year”

Kents Hill Care Home welcomed ambulance crew staff, post office workers, district nurses and physiotherapists for there 'Take a break with us' week.  They received many thanks, gratitude and comments of bringing together the local MDT's in the recent hot weather; the cake and drinks went down well (particularly the cold drinks)   

Howgate House is supporting the local primary school breakfast club by collecting food and drinks for the children. They have supported the home through the last few difficult months by sending pen pal letters and drawing pictures of rainbows and sunshine for every residents' room.

We had a lovely addition to the Ashfield Court family when Cosmina had her baby girl on 7th August 2020 at 22.16 weighing in at a healthy 7lb 4oz.

Both mummy and baby are doing well and we can't wait to meet you soon. From all at Ashfield Court welcome to the family.

Meet Maya our Chef at Rosedale Nursing and Care Home. She loves baking cakes for our residents and seeing the delight on their faces when she presents the afternoon snacks.

Maya and her team were delighted to be awarded the 5 Star Food Hygiene Award again this year when they were inspected in January. Well done team Rosedale.

We celebrated National Cheesecake Day on 30th July at Rosedale and we thought it would be amazing to have cheesecake for our tea break in the afternoon.

Maya our head chef made a raspberry cheesecake which was simply divine.

Our very own handy Andy braved the shave to raise money for the RVI Leukaemia ward. Field View raised £200.Thank you Andy for being so gracious and allowing us to raise money for this worthy cause.

The week of the MMCG and Countrywide Care awards has arrived and here at Willowdene Care Home in Sedgefield we have much to celebrate with 4 nominations for categories.

We have Ruth Pearson who has been nominated for Housekeeping Highflyer at Willowdene.  Ruth is responsible for making sure our home always looks clean and tidy for our residents.