Wyndham Hall celebrated all of our wonderful carers during MMCG’s inaugural Carers Appreciation Day. We wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for all of the amazing work that they do on a daily basis, as they are such a vital part of our care home team. Every carer was presented with a Thank You bag, which included a gift from our Head Office in recognition of their hard work and dedication.

We celebrated Carers Appreciation Day at Manorhey with all our carers and staff members. They enjoyed a lovely spread of food and desserts. We would like to say a big thanks to all our carers for their hard work.

In celebration of Manorhey Care Centre getting a good rating from CQC our home manager Ursa Virag treated all staff to a beautiful garden party. We all had a beautiful time with drinks and a BBQ and can say our hard work as a team payed off. 

Bore Da! What an amazing armchair journey around Wales we had! We reminisced about family holidays that we'd all been on, especially as children. We chatted about fishing and the many different castles that we had individually visited. We listened to some classic songs from some of our favourite Welsh singers including Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Aled Jones whilst enjoying some traditional Welsh treats - freshly baked Bara brith from Popty Conwy Bakery in North Wales and some Welsh cakes.

With Euro 2020 putting everyone in a winning mood our armchair trip around England was great fun. We travelled from the Dorset coast to Blackpool, from Stonehenge to the Lake District, and from Blackpool to Bath. We saw some amazing sights including the Uffington White Horse and the Cerne Giant chalk figures. We also held a quiz to see who could name the most images and it was agreed that Andy should be a tour guide for England because he knew almost every one!

We are almost ready for Monday's Big Tea and are really looking forward to seeing you all. We have been donated these Teapig teabags from Booths in Ilkley for us to enjoy with our cakes, many thanks to the Manager at Booths for her kind generosity.

Our gardener Seth who has spent some time developing the garden to include areas that people living with us can eat from, he has planted plum, pear and apple trees that are already starting to grow. He has also planted strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb and more in the raised planters for the people who live with us to enjoy. The garden which is now in full bloom was missing some bee hotels we felt and so the people living at the home joined him to build some.

Birthdays are always a huge celebration, shared by the people living and working at Deepdene. Recently we celebrated with Reginald and Ahmed and the chef did us proud with the delicious homemade cakes. 

To celebrate National Carers Day, resident Eve Woodhead 90 years old presented our carers with a letter from Phil Burgan, Executive Chairman, thanking each carer for the considerable hard work they do. Each carer received a monogrammed flask and an individual letter of thanks.

Howgate House celebrated with a bacon butty break, all staff had a bacon butty and a coffee.

In the afternoon we enjoyed "songs from the seventies" and discussed the fantastic football score on Tuesday. 

Who needs an excuse to have cake?

Recently we  took part in making and baking to help raise some funds towards for The Alzheimer’s Society.

Having many of our residents living with dementia,  it runs very close to our hearts. 

We look forward to another bake sale in the summertime when we should be able to share afternoon teas and cakes with our local community.