We were so grateful to receive a wonderful donation of afternoon tea from Lakes & Dales Co-operative.

A huge donation, of everything anyone could need for a wonderful afternoon celebration. Sandwiches, scones, cakes, and non-alcoholic fizz to make it a wonderful celebration.

We had a party in all of the dining areas, with bunting, music and a great atmosphere. 

A wonderful afternoon, had by all. 

Meet Maya our Chef at Rosedale Nursing and Care Home. She loves baking cakes for our residents and seeing the delight on their faces when she presents the afternoon snacks.

Maya and her team were delighted to be awarded the 5 Star Food Hygiene Award again this year when they were inspected in January. Well done team Rosedale.

We celebrated National Ice Cream Day at the home on 23rd July and we certainly picked a lovely day for it as the sun was shining outside and we enjoyed our afternoon ice cream treat.

We celebrated National Cheesecake Day on 30th July at Rosedale and we thought it would be amazing to have cheesecake for our tea break in the afternoon.

Maya our head chef made a raspberry cheesecake which was simply divine.

The week of the MMCG and Countrywide Care awards has arrived and here at Willowdene Care Home in Sedgefield we have much to celebrate with 4 nominations for categories.

We have Ruth Pearson who has been nominated for Housekeeping Highflyer at Willowdene.  Ruth is responsible for making sure our home always looks clean and tidy for our residents.

Here at Willowdene we are loving this gorgeous sunny weather we are having and our relative garden visits at the home. Our residents really enjoy seeing family and we are so fortunate to have such wonderful gardens.

Thank you to all of the families for supporting our garden visits and also for visiting in the rain and sitting under the shelter.  We couldn't have gotten through this without you.

We were delighted to have a visit from two horses this week at Willowdene who came in to meet our residents at the home.  Our residents used to love the miniature ponies visits so we thought we'd have the horse's come to visit. The residents came out one at a time to see the horses and it really brightened our day.  

We are proud of our heritage at Ashfield Court and were delighted to celebrate Yorkshire Day on 1st August at the home.

We enjoyed some Yorkshire tea and Yorkshire treats and all had a very lovely day.

For this month's baking club the residents decided that they would like to make some fudge. We sourced recipes and decided to make milk chocolate fudge and white chocolate fudge with KitKats in. 

We tasted the fudge the next day and the residents thought that both fudges tasted delicious. Although it was very sweet and sticky. 

Excitement came to Oaklands Care Home today! 

The kind generosity by our Regional Director, Paul Brookfield who arranged for a visit from an ice cream van and all residents and staff could have an ice cream of their choice. 

Brymor Ice Cream is very local to our home and they have an ice cream parlour not too far away. Brymor ice cream is a true 'Yorkshire Delicacy'. 

When the ice cream van arrived residents went out to choose an ice cream.