Our stories

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Moving into a care home made easy

Our care team are here to make sure that making the move is as easy as possible for you and your loved one. If you still need reassurance, here are some stories from our residents, their families and our care team.

Gateford Hill are runners up in the regional Chip Butty competition. A massive well done to the team at Gateford Hill who certainly went the extra mile to produce an outstanding Chip Butty for their region, a true team effort with a massive well done to Chef for presentation and deliciousness.

Chip Butty Competition

We were all fortunate enough to be able to celebrate the 100th Birthday of a fine gentleman who lives with us here at Abingdon Court. What a milestone - he was able to be joined by family and friends to receive cards and gifts; including a 100th birthday message from Her Majesty The Queen.

Turning 100 - reflecting on the century

Joined by the wonderful

A massive well done to the team at Water Royd House who certainly went the extra mile to produce the winning Chip Butty for their region looking into the history of the chip butty.

Chip Butty Competition

We had a lovely day on St. Patrick's Day. We enjoyed Irish Pork Stew followed with apple crumble. We then had an afternoon full of games and exercises.

St Patrick's Day

Mabel really enjoyed having a pamper and a hand massage finished nicely with lovely painted nails.

Pamper at Alexandra Court

Our residents really enjoyed the opportunity to help out a student of Journalism this week. She came to interview staff and residents at The Hawthorns to find out about their experiences in a care home through the pandemic.

On the 17th we celebrated St. Patricks Day, we had a special Irish lunch celebrations with Irish Stew and some Guinness beer.

It's was lovely to open our doors to our Irish residents relatives.

St Patricks' Day at Manorhey

Troutbeck enjoyed a selection of delicious fruits as part of our awareness week detailing the importance of Nutrition and Hydration.

Nutrition and Hydration

Here we are Celebrating St Patricks Day at Troutbeck. Social activities are a great way to keep everyone emotionally stimulated, sparking memories that gives us all a great boost.

St Patricks Day at Troutbeck

Our residents really enjoyed their afternoon playing draughts, they got the giggles and thought it was a great afternoon. Some of our residents also had a lovely walk.

Afternoons at Alexandra Court

Don’t forgot to nominate those superstars and standout performers, to make sure they receive the recognition they deserve!

Maria Mallaband and Countrywide Care Awards 2022

Spring time is coming and we have started to create our potted plants to go into the planters in the gardens at Belmont House. It’s not quite the weather as yet to go outside as its still a little cold so we potted them indoors and our activities team will transport them outside for us when

Potting Plants Ready For Spring

National Reflections Day is 23rd March this year and charities like Marie Curie are among many who will be supporting the millions of people who are grieving, and remembering the family, friends, neighbours and colleagues lost to the virus over the last two years.

Belmont Reflections Wheel

We had a fabulous day celebrating St Patrick’s Day at the home last week. Our Chef, Joe, made us some special cup cakes with green icing. We listened to Irish songs and made cards and decorations in arts and crafts that week.

St Patrick's Day at Belmont

Spring is in the air here at Ashfield Court and those who live here with us decided to make some flowers to celebrate the upcoming season.

Spring at Ashfield Court

Happy St Patricks Day from Ashfield Court!☘️

Residents enjoyed performing the Irish Jig at Ashmead on 17th March 2022 in order to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Residents helped prepare for the event by making their Irish hats and banners. Light refreshments, music and pleasant company all contributed to a most pleasant afternoon.

Happy St Patricks Day from Ashmead

Cedar Court joined in the worldwide St Patricks Day celebrations today. We started our day with arm travel to see the splendours of Ireland. All dining rooms were decorated in the theme and John together with the kitchen team prepared a wonderful Irish Stew wit

Celebrating St Patricks Day in style

Bowerfield House had a fantastic day celebrating St Patricks Day. We started our day with a gentle Irish sit down exercise class then enjoyed a lovely lunch, our chef made Irish Stew with dumplings.

St Patrick's Day

As one of our residents was leaving us at Acorn House we decided to throw her a party.

On Thursday 10th March we held a 1950s rock and roll party here at Brunel House.

Our hair stylist come in and created some amazing 1950s styles for our residents, which they absolutely loved.

Rock and Roll at Brunel

For the Easter Extravaganza regional competitions first week, Birch Heath Lodge decided to make a Giant Mars bar nest. Inside the nest is chocolate and caramel moulds. Everyone is eggcited to crack open the nest and have a taste.

Easter Cake Competition

New garden furniture arrived at Hope Green this week and residents were super excited to watch John our maintenance man assemble it. An orderly queue was forming for everyone to sit on it and try it out whilst John was hard at work! It was great to see so many smiles and much appreciation.

Garden Furniture

lá Fhéile Pádraig sona in Irish or Happy St. Patrick's Day in English !!

St. Patricks Day

Yesterday we celebrated St Patricks Day .

St Patricks Day at Water Royd

The whole team and people living at Kents Hill Care Home would like to take this opportunity to thank MK Friends Charity for their generous donation.

Thank you to MK Friends Charity

Despite the rainy weather outside we are all smiles at our flower arranging class. All the beautiful flower arrangements created by the people living with us will be placed on the tables in our dining rooms for everyone to admire and enjoy.

Flower arranging at Kents Hill

The manager at our home spent time chatting to staff members, providing cake and handing out individualised 'Thank you' gifts to show appreciation of the hard work which continues every day.

A Very Big 'Thank you'!

Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection was celebrated by revisiting our Tree Of Hope in the beautiful gardens of our home.

Tree Of Hope at Hope Green

The people living with us and the staff at Ashmead have been most affected by the recent news from Ukraine and have all wished to play a part to help the refugees.

Supporting Ukraine

Bowerfield House have been busy organising and choosing our Queen`s jubilee tree which is being planted on 25th March. We are very excited about this which is why we are choosing a colour for our garden fence which is the start of our garden project.

Queens Jubilee Tree Planting

We had fun today in our messy art session creating pieces inspired by Claude Monet using oil pastels and the smudge technique.

OUR LOVELY FINISHED PLANTS AND BIRD BALLS.

OUR LOVELY FINISHED PLANTS AND BIRD BALLS.

We made Rosette's for Crufts 2022. The residents wanted all different colours and when they finished making them they decided to wear them. While we were making them they watched Crufts 2022 live on TV.

We kicked off Hydration Week with making some Fruit Infused Water. The residents picked which fruits they fancied in their glasses and tried different flavours. The residents especially enjoyed eating the juicy fresh fruit and smelling the stronger scents.

A Day at the Races!! We all enjoyed celebrating the Cheltenham Gold Cup today. The residents picked a horses name out of the hat and decorated a Jockey shirt with matching colours. When it was time for the chosen race to begin, the residents gathered in the lounge and wore some fancy hats ready.

A Day At The Races

A most enjoyable afternoon for all residents was spent at Ashmead on Wednesday 15th March 2022, when members of our local NHS dietary team paid a visit. The team brought along ingredients to enable the residents to construct and taste wonderful milkshakes.

Milkshake time at Ashmead

Our popular arts and craft group enjoyed their painting activity and produced some extremely wonderful art. Using acrylic paint, we created a sea scene which all the people living at the home were so proud of they couldn't wait to display them in their bedrooms.

Painting at Cedar Court

LOVELY DAY SPENT PLANTING BULBS READY FOR THE SPRING MONTHS AND MAKING BIRD BALLS VERY MESSY BUT ENYOYABLE VERY PRODUCTIVE DAY ENJOYED BY ALL.

MONA AND MARY ENJOYED OUR KNITTING AND A NATTER AFTERNOON WE WERE KNITTING CUFFS FOR THE BABY'S AND CHILDREN AT HOSPITAL TO HOLD THE WIRE IN. LOVELY AFTERNOON AND GREAT FUN.

Knitting Afternoon

Our regular Residents Meetings at Hope Green are an opportunity to gather together with coffee, tea and biscuits and discuss how everyone is getting along.

Resident Meetings at Hope Green

Residents enjoyed a lovely session of Reminiscence with the Lifestyle Team this week and it was a really great time of friendship and laughter. Many residents were able to gather a few things together too to put into a personalised Memory Box and there was certainly lots of discussion.

We were so excited to be back on site to see how our beautiful home was coming along last week. Our garden's are being freshly prepared and the carpets have been fitted into our brand new luxury rooms. What a difference a few weeks make! Not long to go now.

For the second consecutive year the residents enjoyed a Carnival Party at Allingham House. The residents started the week making and displaying colourful decorations all around our home, creating the perfect space to celebrate this festive day.

We celebrated International Woman's Day at Ashfield Court by having a talk on Emily Pankhurst and the residents shared views on how things were so different then and how she changed everything for women all them years ago! Plus lots of cups of tea and fresh cinnamon swirls.

International Woman's Day at Ashfield

We dedicated a day for our lovely ladies in the home and also involved the community around Amber Court. Every lady had received pink flower and simple treat that symbolises how important and special they are.

International Women’s Day

We started the month of March by celebrating Pancake Day. Our kitchen chef prepared a various choice of syrup that our residents enjoyed. Some of them chose strawberry syrup, others had plain maple syrup, lemon glazed syrup, different kind of jams and toppings of their choice!

Pancake Day in Amber Court

Yesterday was National Meatball Day. Our kitchen prepared Meatball Spaghetti for everyone to enjoy. Our residents really love it!

National Meatball Day in Amber Court

We marked the 2nd week of March as British Pie Week. Pies can be part of any of our meals, it can be our main meal, dessert, or just for snacks. That’s why our very talented kitchen chef prepared different kinds of pie for the whole week.

British Pie Week in Amber Court