Barnes Court Care Home on Wycliffe Road in Sunderland received a lovely hamper of toiletries as a donation from Hannah and Annalise from the Community Nursing Team for the staff and residents.

Thank you so much, we really do appreciate it.

Ashfield Court on Tewit Hall Road received a lovely donation from the wife of one of our residents at the home who thought we could all enjoy a treat during the day.  

Thank you for this lovely donation, the staff were absolutely delighted to receive the chocolate and this is only half of the donation too.

The residents had a fabulous afternoon celebrating VE Day and listening to the live entertainment from a harpist. 

Thank you messages received at Troutbeck Care Home from a lovely family member. 

"Dear Night Angels

Thank you for all your care and kindness shown and delivered to my father. Leaving our loved one at night is so very hard but in your care safe secure , warm

Thank you , we wish you all well for the future. When this nightmare is over we shall sing like nightingales for you all. Very best wishes"

"Dearest Linda, Lynne & Pauline

To celebrate VE day our resident's grandchildren drew around their hands, coloured them in and sent them to us.

We put them together in this poster so our residents could be close to their loved ones

All day we listened to wartime music around the home and the staff team couldn't resist joining in, dancing through the corridors "Doing the Lambeth Walk"

We enjoyed meals from the past, including spam and corned beef fritters.

The day was a little bit different but we still had a fantastic time

Getting post at The Hawthorns Care Home in Norwich is always pretty exciting but when we received a delivery from Norwich City Football Club there was a buzz around the home. Our staff and residents were delighted to receive this signed and framed football shirt along with a carrot cake from no other than Delia Smith. Thank you, we have this up in pride of place at the home.

One of our very talented staff member's at Parksprings Care Home got creative and celebrated International Nurses Day on Tuesday 12th May by drawing the nurses at the home. 

International Nurses Day is an important day for the Barnes Court family, a Care Home based on Wycliffe Road in Sunderland run by Mandy Mackley.  Every year she likes to celebrate her staff in the home and this year with such challenging times is no exception, but this year Mandy wanted to start early so arranged for different treats to come each week as a thank you to the staff for their hard work, dedication and support to the home.

A big thank you to the guys from Tat Fresh Skin Care who dropped off some of their skin balm at both Hope Green and Carmel Lodge. The staff really appreciated the kind thought.

Ste & Danny have also been donating balm to the NHS. Ste said "It was brought to our attention that repeated washing of hands has caused dry skin, cuts and 'burn like' injuries to our vital NHS and care home staff so they decided to help. So far the lads have donated over 1000 balms to members of NHS & care staff for free."