The people living with us love being around animals and nature, so we spent an afternoon at Thrift Farm.  Everyone had some quality time walking around the farm and petting all the animals. What a lovely afternoon it was!

The people living with us enjoyed strolling about in the grounds of Gateford Hill Care home. They loved the peaceful surroundings. Afterwards they sat and enjoyed refreshments and snacks. There were lots of conversations, smiles and laughter. They really enjoyed their time outside with music playing in the background and it is so lovely to see friendships starting to form.
 

We are taking a full advantage of the lovely weather we have here! 
We have visited Willen Lake this morning and thoroughly enjoyed some beautiful views of our lake from the nearby café.
It’s outings like this that make us so happy and privileged to be able to share these lovely moments with our dear Residents.
 

We had an 80th Birthday to celebrate today at Buckingham House.  It was important to the person living us that they got to spend time and celebrate the day with their loved ones.  We provided a private space in our garden for her to host her party with a lovely afternoon tea menu and of course cake.

The people living with us and team joined St. James’ community for their monthly lunch gathering.  The people living with us really enjoy the opportunity to get out and socialise with other people.  As always the food and service was 5* and was really enjoyed by all.

Providing the people living with us an opportunity to have input into their menu at Buckingham House is so important to us.  We decided to organise a Menu Tasting at the home for the people living with us and their families to try some new flavours and ideas to see if they would like to have them on their menu.
The afternoon was a great success and the was enjoyed by all that attended.

At least once each week the people living us love to spend the morning baking. Whatever is baked is then served for afternoon tea to everyone living at the home.  Today, we are all going to enjoy a Victoria Sponge!

A room full of concentration and competitive minds.  Scrabble on one table, dominoes on the other, and plenty of residents having a pleasant afternoon together.

Making our Residents happy and fulfilling their wishes is what we are all here for at Kents Hill Care Home. 
And this time was no different. We went on a trip to our local garden centre where our Residents enjoyed an afternoon tea followed by a walk around the garden centre admiring all the plants and flowers. We had our minibus full of smiles on our return to the Home. Our Lifestyle team is busy preparing more outings for our Residents to enjoy, we might even go to the seaside!

So much fun was had when we did indoor bowling, just a day after receiving an excellent set of bowling equipment.  There was so much laughter and frequent cheers from the two teams as they played.  The residents named the teams themselves.  The red team being the Red Devils and the blue team being the Silly Beggars.  The atmosphere was wonderful, with an element of competition between the two teams.  Everyone wanted to know the final score at the end, and the Silly Beggars won by only 75 points. We're all looking forward to doing it again.