We enjoyed decorating lanterns in lovely autumn colours to look like the leaves on the trees outside. Putting an electronic candle in them really made the colours pop!

It's great to see friendships at Hope Green and it's always a joy to bring the men together to chat, play games, and eat lunch. Today we explored some new books too which we loved chatting about. Topics of particular interest were The Titanic and The Suffragettes!

Look how we turned these into a little mummy doll. Joan, one of our residents, really enjoyed doing this with her fellow residents and staff.

We have been decorating around the home and Deepdene is very lucky to have staff team members with many skills like Adrian helping to put these beautiful vases on the flowers shop.

We are fortunate enough to have an ongoing relationship with 'Christchurch Abingdon'. Before COVID-19 put us into lockdown, we had regular visits from the group who enjoyed meeting and greeting those who live here and putting on a short service with hymns, readings, and prayers.

As Halloween approaches we started to make some Halloween fun crafts, like these beautiful little bats and pumpkins filled with sweets for our residents to enjoy.

We had a lovely afternoon In Deepdene, enjoying an afternoon of a Halloween themed sing along with Helen .

The people loving at Woodlands have been busy creating various items to decorate our lounge for the harvest season and Halloween.  They have enjoyed using different techniques and textures and the results are fantastic.

The Christmas cake competition has begun!

Right across our 3 floors, residents have been battling it out to bake the best festive cake.

Everyone has been very competitive and took it in turns to soak the cake with spirits. Decoration of the cake will start at the end of November and the winning floor will be announced on the 1st of December.

Sadly we have had to say goodbye to Angela who retired on the 16th September 2021.  Angela has been a huge part of Belvoir Vale for so many years and we will all miss her although she has kindly agreed to return and visit us each Sunday when the Church service take place.

Angela, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.