In the run up to Christmas we are busier than ever. As well as all the Christmas festivities we are also keen to continue with the regular activities that we all enjoy some much such as art, bingo and even air hockey.

Our Diwali celebrations at Knights Court this year were complimented by the addition of some colourfully themed arts and crafts.

We took the most iconic Diwali symbols used during the festive season (a diya, a symbol called Sathiyo & the OM sign) and added a bit of sparkle and the amazingly creative work of our some of the people living with us is here to see.

Love and Light to all’

River View welcomed the 'Moving On' choir to sing some beautiful carols to the delight of everyone living and working with us.

We all wrapped up warm and cleared our throats, ready to join in with the beautiful voices of the choir, led by Choir Master Derry.

Warmed mulled wine and minced pies were a perfect treat afterwards and we look forward to welcoming back the voices of ' Moving On' again next year.

Everyone who lives and works at River View were delighted to welcome Reverend Peter and his Parish volunteer Jill back to our home.

Reverend Peter had visited us a couple of weeks previously to find out who would like to actively participate in the service, as well as planning the venue in which to conduct the service.

He gave blessings and communion to all who attended, as well as visiting some of the people living with us in their bedrooms for further blessings, who were unable to attend the service. We all look forward to further prayers.

Here at Kents Hill we our ending the year by actively supporting our local food bank.

We have started collecting donations from our staff team, relatives and family friends and we are planning to make our first donation by the end of the week.

On Friday 3rd December, we took part in the annual ‘Elf Day’ celebrations, encouraged by Alzheimer’s Society nationwide!

We enjoyed a wonderful musical afternoon at Kents Hill, provided by our resident Maureen who played some of our favourite Christmas tunes. It was lovely to watch Maureen play and we all enjoyed the music.

We are absolutely thrilled to have taken delivery of an OMNI Interactive Table this week which we have already started putting to good use.

The wide choice of activities and games on the table are designed to connect everyone through touch, sight and sound, whilst the projections help individual to unwind and relax, improving mood and emotional stability.

We can't wait to share with everyone how we get on with it over the coming months. 

Our first communion church service from the cathedral was a wonderful return one which the residents enjoyed very much, this service will take place every Wednesday. A huge thank you to the Cathedral.

Morag returned for her first live show with everyone and how fantastic was it.. Morag chatted about how much she had missed everyone and how wonderful to be back.. great tai chi class and fantastic to welcome Morag into the home again.