We had a fabulous day celebrating the care awards with our residents. We were delighted to win Best New Comer for our fabulous Home Manager Angela Galloway and Administrator of the year for our Admin Michael Lawrence.

We started the day with a fish and chip lunch followed a few glasses of Nosecco during the awards and home made cakes.

The residents enjoyed getting dressed up and were happy to be part of the annual 7th MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards which took place on Friday 24th September. We had such a wonderful time with some celebrity special guests attending our red carpet event and a lovely buffet made by the home chef. 

Well done to all the well-deserved winners. Roll on next year.

We had a coffee afternoon to raise funds for MacMillan. Residents helped set up the Tombola stall and enjoyed an afternoon of fun and chat. They are so pleased we raised £47. Our tombola stall was made up of Body Shop products and the ladies were thrilled when somehow they all won something.

We celebrated a belated Macmillan Coffee morning in September to raise vital funds for this amazing charity and all they do to support the community.  The day of the Macmillan coffee morning coincided with our annual care awards so we decided to host this a week later so our wonderful residents had two parties which they loved.

On Friday 19th October we were delighted to be presented with second prize from Great Aycliffe town council for best community garden. We were absolutely over the moon to receive this award. We would like to say a huge thank you to Ken for all his hard work he has put into our beautiful garden we really do appreciate it, all his hard work has paid off.

We had such a lovely afternoon watching the care awards and cheering for the nominated staff across the homes and we enjoyed a lovely buffet of the residents favourite foods.

Well done from Garden Hill to all of the winners in the region and country from our team to yours and we hope to see you there next year.

Staff here at Alexandra Court got in the spooky spirit and dressed up for the occasion. All the staff really enjoyed it and we had such a fun day.  

We enjoyed celebrating the Annual MMCG and Countrywide Care Awards in September at the home.  We were joined by our wonderful residents enjoying themselves with some cocktails and we were all keeping our fingers crossed for Jodie to win the award of Activities Coordinator of the Year.

Molly, has said that it doesn't matter if we win as she thinks we are all winners every day and we are all doing fantastic work and she really appreciate all that we do for her.

Our latest fundraising event was held at Strawberry Fields Car boot where Activities Coordinators, Jodie and Manda, were selling staff donations to local bargain hunters. We had a great result from our sale in the summer, so we were hoping the weather would stay bright and dry this time around. The overall money raised totalled £107 which we were very pleased about, and the money will be added to our resident fund, just in time for Christmas! A big thank you to everyone who donated.

The residents at Willowbank had great fun at our Halloween party today. Thank you to our chefs David and Mario for the delicious food.