The staff and residents of Clarendon Court have gone wild for World Wildlife Day, dressing as their favourite wild animal and learning a little more about them. Some very interesting facts, all helped along with our wildlife cakes baked by our very own Maria.

To celebrate employee appreciation day 2022 our home manager Neil Hooley treated all staff to Krispy Kreme donuts.

Jessica Dennington, Mihaela Laza and Charlotte Littlemore were all presented with a lovely gift and keepsakes that they will be able to treasure.

What an achievement well done ladies!

The traditional annual Pancake Race at Brunel House, enjoyed by everyone!

To celebrate St David’s Day we spent a very busy morning making Welsh Cakes/Cacennau Gri.

Whilst we mixed and rolled the cake mix, we enjoyed listening to some of our favourite Welsh artists; Tom Jones, Bryn Terfel and The 3 Welsh Tenors.

And yes, they were delicious.

Some of the people living with us here at Brunel recently enjoyed a fun day in the company of 10 year old Ophelia, the daughter of one of our team members.

They played board games, musical games, did some arts and crafts and even had time for a spot of gardening.

Ophelia had a fantastic day and is very much looking forward to returning – we look forward to seeing her again soon.

To celebrate National Pizza Day we made Pizzas for our evening meal from scratch. We made our pizza dough before lunch allowing it time to rest, we had talked about toppings with our residents ands whilst the pizza was resting we prepared our toppings and pizza sauce. When our Pizza base was ready to use we assembled our four pizzas and they were sent to the kitchen to bake. Our residents enjoyed it with their evening meal and have already asked when we can do it again.

At Hope Green we care about connecting with cultural experiences for fun, positivity, and friendship. We find that there is an acceptance and joy in the diverse cultures of our world and it was a great pleasure to celebrate this festival together with colourful displays, food, music, and creativity.

Bowerfield House had a great last month, we had a coffee and music morning - latte and coffee on the go- cake, crisps and some marshmallow biscuits which all went down a treat.

We all enjoyed a music quiz and sang along to the music on the karaoke machine. We also had a go on some of the instruments, it was a fun morning with lots of laughter which is a great sound to hear.

Bowerfield House also made some dinner plate mats for LGBT awareness month and the residents loved the colourful rainbow, we also made our own rainbow bunting.

It's smiles all around with our Oomph sessions, and we're always trying to introduce new and fun ways to keep the sessions fresh and exciting - our new prop this week came in the form of ribbons on a stick!

Everybody bobbed away to different songs, including Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw - even if joining in wasn't for you, everybody in the room was humoured and it was smiles all around.