Welcome to Abbey View's own Winter Wonderland! Don't worry, it's very warm and cosy.

We have had a lovely day decorating our first tree for our home, we enjoyed some Christmas music with a nice cup of Tea whilst we put our decorations on. We have spent lots of time speaking about our favourite Christmas traditions and what they wanted to put on the trees and around their home. We made our own tree decorations together which look beautiful and we have also been creating snowflakes to hang from our ceilings.

Normally Christmas Baubles are used to decorate our Christmas tree, but here in Amber Court we used our old yoga balls and pots to make one and decorated the front of our building. Look how lovely and colourful they are! Everyone passing by and all our visitors felt the spirit of Christmas in them.

We celebrated Christmas Jumper Day here in Amber Court. Our kitchen prepared homemade mince pies, hot chocolate and mould wine for everyone. All the staff and residents wore their colourful, fluffiest, ugliest, funniest, and itchiest sweater. We all had a fun day indeed.

Winter is coming, but here at Amber Court there is a small chance of snow. That is why we decided to decorate our windows to look like we have it. Everything is handcrafted by our talented staff and residents. Using only white papers and scissors. Look how lovely it is. It's a white Christmas here. 

Following the successful completion of our amazing 2 week Christmas Bike Challenge cycling from River View to Lapland, in support of the The Alzheimer’s Society Elf Day ,Theo the 8 foot bear mascot for The Knights Foundation children’s disability charity came to collect the post and went around the home visiting and saying hello.

The reaction to this from everyone living with us was amazing, as our home was filled with heart warming stories and special greetings from everyone.

Our Diwali celebrations at Knights Court this year were complimented by the addition of some colourfully themed arts and crafts.

We took the most iconic Diwali symbols used during the festive season (a diya, a symbol called Sathiyo & the OM sign) and added a bit of sparkle and the amazingly creative work of our some of the people living with us is here to see.

Love and Light to all’

River View welcomed the 'Moving On' choir to sing some beautiful carols to the delight of everyone living and working with us.

We all wrapped up warm and cleared our throats, ready to join in with the beautiful voices of the choir, led by Choir Master Derry.

Warmed mulled wine and minced pies were a perfect treat afterwards and we look forward to welcoming back the voices of ' Moving On' again next year.

Everyone who lives and works at River View were delighted to welcome Reverend Peter and his Parish volunteer Jill back to our home.

Reverend Peter had visited us a couple of weeks previously to find out who would like to actively participate in the service, as well as planning the venue in which to conduct the service.

He gave blessings and communion to all who attended, as well as visiting some of the people living with us in their bedrooms for further blessings, who were unable to attend the service. We all look forward to further prayers.

Here at Kents Hill we our ending the year by actively supporting our local food bank.

We have started collecting donations from our staff team, relatives and family friends and we are planning to make our first donation by the end of the week.