Barnes Court Care Home in Wycliffe Road Sunderland have had a busy month of activities and even managed a few lovely trips out before things with COVID-19 started to affect the UK.  They have been to the Sunderland Empire Cinema to see Doctor Doolittle, our favour tea shop at Penshaw Tea Rooms and bowling.  

The residents at Belmont House Care Home were delighted to receive postcards from Starbeck Primary School and Springwater School here in Harrogate. The children had written a personal message on the back of the postcards and made our residents feel part of our caring community. Two of our residents are currently in the process of replying to the kindness shown by children and staff from both local schools.

Howgate House residents have a busy April scheduled. We will be busy replying to the letters that have been sent to our residents by local children as well as making our Easter bonnets.  Our activities lady will be re starting our spring gardening sessions - weather permitting. 

We are all looking forward to the pub games and St Georges day celebrations.  

Linda Berry, Team Leader at Minster Grange won a gorgeous bouquet of flowers and some chocolates and nominated them to Minster Grange to receive them. 

The chocolates have been shared with the residents and the flowers are on display for everyone to enjoy.

Lovely afternoon at Batley Hall featuring afternoon tea courtesy of Fox`s biscuits. Thoroughly enjoyed by residents and staff. Lots of comfort biscuit favourites for everyone, loads of happy memories and smiley conversation.

Thank you to the team at Fox's for their generosity, bringing the wonderful biscuits – Stay safe and well.

Love from Batley Hall Care Home

World Harmony Day reminds us of inclusivity and having a place to belong. Here at White Rose Lodge we want to remind people of their importance and worth. Therefore we created a couple of activities to invite social interaction. Residents began by working in pairs to play a memory game of finding the matching pairs. The game involved the flags and names of countries from the European Union. Which is a body of countries that come together in partnership for political and economic reasons. Which we felt captivated the notion of working together for world harmony day.

White Rose Lodge was delighted to welcome a group of 2-4 year olds from Cliffe House Nursery at the beginning of March. The news of their visit aroused excitement among the residents. Many of the residents gathered in anticipation for their arrival. They arrived with bundles of energy and excitement to share some learnt nursery rhymes with the residents. The young children appeared quite at home whilst they performed twinkle, twinkle, little star, three little monkeys and a variety of well known nursery rhymes and songs.

One of our loving carer's Sharon has a hidden talent; Hairdressing. She has been taking her time to take the residents down to the hair salon when on shift and off shift (coming in on her days off) to make them feel extra special during these strange times. Our hairdressers haven't been able to the visit the home for a few weeks now and many of the residents were feeling the effects of there lack of weekly hairdressing routine along with that 'FEEL GOOD' factor that getting your hair done feels like. Sharon is doing an amazing job as is everyone else; keep up the great w

Our residents at Batley Hall Care Home in Batley, West Yorkshire had a lovely surprise this week when they received some letters through the post  from the students at Redbourne Upper School and Community College.

We all thoroughly enjoyed reading them and send a massive thank you to the school for taking the time to write to us. Love from residents and staff at Batley Hall.

Here at Earsdon Grange Care Home in Whitley Bay we have been overwhelmed by the support and generosity of our local taxi firm and Greggs. 

It would also be very remiss of us not to mention our local taxi firm, East Coast Taxi’s in Whitley Bay.  They have come to our aid and offered to help staff get to and from work to keep them safe in these uncertain times and have offered a staggering 50% discount to all of our colleagues at the Home.  Your generosity will not be forgotten, thank you.