During comfort month we held a relaxing social event, where staff and residents wore their pyjamas, played relaxing music and enjoyed facials and hand massages with scented aromas and creams, complete with a refreshing glass of wine. As you can imagine some fell asleep!

One of the recent craft activities at Brunel was making sensory bags full of beads, shaving foam, glitter, cotton wool balls and food colouring. The residents really enjoyed getting messy with this one.

Remembrance day is a very important event for many of the residents at Abingdon Court. Therefore the activities team, Kirsty and Mona ensured the activities were relevant to the day.  Residents created their own poppies which they then wore on remembrance day.  On the day itself, the residents watched the day's services which were moving but also heart warming.

Among the residents are many veterans for whom remembrance day was very important and so the day was filled with services, poem readings, quizzes and sing along.

Unfortunately due to the current conditions, like many people, the residents were not able to go to a fire work display this year and so the activity team brought the fireworks display to them.

During Halloween week the activities coordinators provided the residents with various Halloween inspired activities, such as pumpkin decorating, and even a Halloween themed bingo, which the residents really enjoyed it.

There was a Halloween party and where the staff dressed in fancy dress and took party in the Halloween party games including using props for residents for pictures. The usual sweets and treats trolley was Halloween themed and became a "Trick or Treat" activity.

Keeping busy during lockdown with our new activities boards. 

Here at Carmel Lodge our residents had a creative morning creating their own poppies to help them commemorate remembrance day. 

We had a lovely surprise today, a beautiful sweetie hamper was delivered from one of our lovely families to say thank you to our team at Troutbeck. A massive thank you for thinking of us. Staff and residents will really enjoy digging into this smashing sweetie selection - Team Troutbeck. 

A selection of crafts that staff and residents made to commemorate remembrance day 2020. 

Residents took part in making poppies to adorn our remembrance centrepiece. We decorated our foyer and main lounge.