Staff at Allingham House really enjoyed this magnificent training and can't wait for the next sessions.

Claire Ford is a registered nurse and PhD student researcher at the University of Manchester. She is conducting a research project where she is designing, developing and feasibility testing a falls awareness and prevention training prototype using Virtual Reality in care homes across Greater Manchester.

'Random Acts of Kindness Day', no matter how big or small the gesture, all expressions of kindness were and are welcomed in our home.  Kindness increases the love hormone, energy, happiness, pleasure and serotonin. Our Wellbeing team set up a beautiful kindness board to help with the sprinkling of kindness everywhere.

We were certainly feeling the love with these absolutely beautiful cards sent by The Stourport High School & VIth Form College.  Our Wellbeing team hand delivered these wonderful messages of kindness, warmth and love throughout our home.  The loveometer was rocketing off the scale!.

A Maria Mallaband Care Group team member has been awarded a Nursing Associate of the Year award from Health Education England.

Jo Stokes was named Nursing Associate of the Year in a Community/ Primary Care setting by Health Education England’s North-West Nursing and Midwifery team.

The award was one of five made to Trainee Nursing Associates (TNAs) and Nursing Associates (NAs) in the region in recognition of their effort and contribution during the pandemic.

This year Knights Court celebrated Valentines Day 2022 with amore

Everyone living us, along with staff wholeheartedly engaged in this annual festival to celebrate romantic love, friendship and admiration. Many of us also sent messages of love and affection to our partners, family and friends.

Yesterday we recognised International Women’s Day. At River View we have a team of great men working and living here, but we also have some amazing women too. The ladies from the kitchen to the laundry, lifestyle team, domestic staff , carers, nurses and the management team, all gel and work together to look after the amazing ladies that live here at River View.

We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite literary characters.

Everyone got together and did the conga down the corridors which was followed by a quiz and even more dancing.

Bowerfield House loves a good competition, we had a biscuit dunking competition to see which biscuit was the toughest. We all got involved, every one had a different theory.

This competition brought out everyone's competitive side, we laughed and it was lovely to see everyone get involved.

The biscuits we had were rich teas, hob nobs, digestives and ginger biscuits. We dunked each one for 10 seconds and rich tea was our winner! Then we all enjoyed eating the rest of the biscuits with a pot of tea.

At Hope Green women gathered together to chat, eat chocolate, walk in the spring sunshine, listen to music and read. The sunshine shone through the windows and there was a real air of hope and togetherness. In recognition of current events in our world the women of Hope Green tied yellow and blue ribbons on the display in the entrance of the home and visitors and staff were invited to join in too. This was a symbol of our togetherness with women in our world who are currently facing great hardship, especially the women and girls of Ukraine.

We decided to be creative and innovative choosing a theme, and we chose, Around the World in Chip Butties.