Rose Lodge Care Home on Careers Way, Cobblers Lane in Newton Aycliffe were delighted when Activities Coordinator Diane Tweddle was nominated for Most Innovative Activities Programme of the year for the North East Region in the Maria Mallaband and Countrywide Care Awards.

Our Around the World party was a great success. Everyone was dressed their best and enjoyed our live social distancing entertainment by one of our regular singers Deborah. We had a buffet at dinner, a best dressed competition and a photo booth. Pictured is Jed representing Australia as Crocodile Dundee and Joyce representing the UK as the Queen.

We have been entertained by The Bluebirds here at Troutbeck, we selected a rock n roll theme the girls dressed in the style and sang a selection of songs from the era. Our residents were able to sing along and everyone said what a fabulous event it was.

Nora, and her husband Ken celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary on Wednesday,  29th July. It was Ken's first time social distance visiting with Nora since we have been on lockdown as he himself has been shielding. They have been video chatting regularly, but it was a very special day for the two of them to finally see each other in person.

This month has been filled with activities focusing on our theme of "Around the World". We have celebrated all of the continents throughout this month. 

We began July with North America. We had a Mexico day where we had fajitas and chilli con carne for dinner. In the afternoon we had a pinata. We also had Canada day bingo and we wrote to our pen pals who live in Waterloo, Ontario. 

Please click on the below link to view our July and August Newsletter. 

July and August Newsletter.pdf

The residents at Buckingham House will be encouraged to attach a wish written on a golden leaf, something they would like to do and the home will do what they can to facilitate the wish.

Our lavender in the back garden has been getting very long so we decided to cut it all down so we could enjoy it!

The residents created bunches of the lavender and then we tied them up to hang off of our arch to dry. After a week or so we are going to take all the dried lavender off to put into small sachets that can be put in everyone's rooms or in their clothes drawers to make them smell fresh. If we have leftover lavender we will make lavender pomanders which are also a great decoration for rooms and make the area smell great.

We have received many messages of thanks over the last few months and below is an example of the lovely messages sent.

Staff and residents at Hope Green were over the moon to be  awarded 'Best Decorations' for our regional tea party competition in March.

We choose the theme Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Tea Party.

Tracey Yates, Regional Director presented Activities Coordinator Jess with the regional trophy. Well done Hope Green.