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!.

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.

The residents enjoyed creating beautiful Daffodil Flower Arrangements to celebrate St. David's Day, the perfect opportunity for the residents to let their imagination run free and be creative, putting a splash of colour in our dining room tables.

The weather might be cold, wet and windy outside but our Gardening Club at Hope Green continues by 'bringing the outside in'. We care about connecting to nature, and providing our residents the opportunity to get involved whatever the weather and whatever the season. Whilst we planted seeds together residents noticed the smells and textures which gave us a sense of 'wellbeing' and 'calm' regardless of the wind and even hail outside. Perusing a selection of gardening books gave us the chance to discuss and plan for Spring.

We just love baking at Troutbeck Care Home, we chatted about the baking we have done with our families and how children also love baking. Baking triggers ,memories, encourages creativity and appetite, maintains a sense of independence and keeps us social, we have plenty of ideas for the coming months. Happy Baking!

At Hope Green women gathered together to chat, eat chocolate, walk in the spring sunshine, listen to music and read. The sunshine shone through the windows and there was a real air of hope and togetherness. In recognition of current events in our world the women of Hope Green tied yellow and blue ribbons on the display in the entrance of the home and visitors and staff were invited to join in too. This was a symbol of our togetherness with women in our world who are currently facing great hardship, especially the women and girls of Ukraine.

We decided to be creative and innovative choosing a theme, and we chose, Around the World in Chip Butties.

We love to listen to the people who live with us at Kents Hill so when David told us he wanted to surprise his wife Lynne on their 26th wedding anniversary with a card he has made himself, our Lifestyle Team couldn't wait to help him.  They supported David to make the card which looked fantastic and then posted it to his wife to surprise her.