Our wonderful activities coordinator Jane braved a night in the cold to raise much needed funds for a homeless youth charity in North Yorkshire.  Jane said, “The home is warm and safe, and I am reminded in this cold January that many people find themselves without their own home and are far from safe and warm. On the 22nd of January I am doing a sleepout in York to raise funds for charities that aim to help those who need a home.”  A fantastic result as the group raised £4,000 for the Charities that offer support to homeless youth in North Yorkshire.

Whisky tasting, sea shanty and singing for burns night here at The Moors.  We had a lovely day leading up to the Burns Day supper with haggis, neeps and tatties prepared by our fabulous Chef’s at the home and enjoyed cups of tea and Shortbread biscuits during the day.

Residents recently spent an hour taking part in the National Bird Watch scheme, we had three residents watching from the lounge and three watching from their rooms. Our tally for the hour was two great tits, two blue tits, two female blackbirds, two male blackbirds, two starlings, three robins and a wood pigeon.

We were delighted when Jeanette, our wonderful Housekeeper here at Corinthian House won our first Regional Hero Award.

Jeanette works tirelessly to support residents within Corinthian House. She oversees the housekeeping and laundry team and supports in the kitchen. On Christmas Eve Jeanette supported the night shift by coming into care when a staff member called in sick at short notice. Jeanette is a pleasure to work with and does her job with an admirable amount of love, compassion, and kindness, she is an asset to the Corinthian House and Yorkshire regional team.

We had some fun with the old games at the home this month as well as learning new technology.  We played games of hoopla, tin can alley and then an afternoon of games on the tablet (squash the spider).  The residents thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were so good at squashing the spider.

Rabbie Burns Night at the home is always something our residents enjoy, and this year was no different. We had a piper and an accordion player to entertain our residents and lots of singing and dancing before we sat down to a supper of haggis, neeps and tatties.

We enjoyed a fabulous Burn Supper at the home to celebrate all things Rabbie Burns. We had a delicious meal of haggis, neeps and tatties with a dram of whisky to celebrate. Here is our table, all set for Burns Supper.

Rabbie Burns night in Scotland is always a wonderous night of celebrations at Parksprings. This year we wanted to do something a little extra special and filmed all of our wonderful residents reading the lines of a very famous song. There was amazing singing, poetry and reciting, Tartan and Haggis to bring in Rabbie Burns night in style. Our wonderful Stella from Nordoff Robbins has created a wonderful wee video for us which you can view on our Facebook page at ParkspringsCWCH.

There is lots of work happening at Rosedale at the moment in the Lodge which is undergoing a huge refurbishment project to open April time. Our very handy maintenance man, Steve, has been such a huge help. We were delighted when our Commercial Director, James Burgan, came yesterday to present Steve our maintenance manager with vouchers for a meal out for Steve and his wife as a big thank you.

Thank you to Steve for all of your hard work and thank you James for popping in to see us and all of the work going on in the Lodge.