We dedicated a day for our lovely ladies in the home and also involved the community around Amber Court. Every lady had received pink flower and simple treat that symbolises how important and special they are. Some also had a pampering sessions like nails, haircuts, massages and entertainment to celebrate their womanhood. Jimmy, one of our residents helped the staff to go around Kipling Drive to give flowers and chocolates to all the women out there.

We started the month of March by celebrating Pancake Day. Our kitchen chef prepared a various choice of syrup that our residents enjoyed. Some of them chose strawberry syrup, others had plain maple syrup, lemon glazed syrup, different kind of jams and toppings of their choice! A beautiful day to socialize and make fun to everyone in the home.

Yesterday was National Meatball Day. Our kitchen prepared Meatball Spaghetti for everyone to enjoy. Our residents really love it!

We marked the 2nd week of March as British Pie Week. Pies can be part of any of our meals, it can be our main meal, dessert, or just for snacks. That’s why our very talented kitchen chef prepared different kinds of pie for the whole week. We had Cheese and Onion Pie, Cherry Pie with custard, Quiche, Steak Pie, Cottage Pie and a lot more of its kind. Our residents had enjoyed every pie they got.

Staff at Allingham House really enjoyed this magnificent training and can't wait for the next sessions.

Claire Ford is a registered nurse and PhD student researcher at the University of Manchester. She is conducting a research project where she is designing, developing and feasibility testing a falls awareness and prevention training prototype using Virtual Reality in care homes across Greater Manchester.

'Random Acts of Kindness Day', no matter how big or small the gesture, all expressions of kindness were and are welcomed in our home.  Kindness increases the love hormone, energy, happiness, pleasure and serotonin. Our Wellbeing team set up a beautiful kindness board to help with the sprinkling of kindness everywhere.

We were certainly feeling the love with these absolutely beautiful cards sent by The Stourport High School & VIth Form College.  Our Wellbeing team hand delivered these wonderful messages of kindness, warmth and love throughout our home.  The loveometer was rocketing off the scale!.

This year Knights Court celebrated Valentines Day 2022 with amore

Everyone living us, along with staff wholeheartedly engaged in this annual festival to celebrate romantic love, friendship and admiration. Many of us also sent messages of love and affection to our partners, family and friends.

Yesterday we recognised International Women’s Day. At River View we have a team of great men working and living here, but we also have some amazing women too. The ladies from the kitchen to the laundry, lifestyle team, domestic staff , carers, nurses and the management team, all gel and work together to look after the amazing ladies that live here at River View.

We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite literary characters.

Everyone got together and did the conga down the corridors which was followed by a quiz and even more dancing.