Our stories

Peace of mind

Moving into a care home can be daunting

Rest assured, 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.

The winners of the Pumpkin competition was number 4 - Garrion .. the black bowler hat has changed to a witches hat .. spooky spooky. Our pumpkin hat judge presented the prizes ..

Pumpkin Competition at Parksprings

November 2021

Doing the things that we love the most. Thank you to Lugar bowling club for helping us support our residents to keep involved. Over seventy years membership between them and a few championship titles. New memories were made and time spent remembering the good old times.

Lugar Bowling Club

November 2021

We celebrated the MMCG and Countrywide 7th annual care awards in September and were delighted when Glennie House was a winner. Our very own night shift carer Kimberly McCracken, won Carer of the year 2021. So unbelievably proud to have her as part of our team. Well done Kimberly.

Care Awards Winner

November 2021

We celebrated a belated Macmillan Coffee morning at the Home in September raising money for this wonderful charity.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

November 2021

Well done to one of our incredible team members who took part in the Memory Walk with her daughter and family to raise money for Alzheimer's Society . They took part in the South Shields memory walk on 9th October and raised a whopping £485 for the charity.

Alzheimer's Memory Walk

November 2021

We celebrated Halloween at Willowdene and had lots of fun dressing up in the home. Residents and staff dressed up and had a Halloween party. We were entertained by Sam Naylor who was brilliant and enjoyed lots of sweets and cupcakes during the afternoon and a Halloween buffet for tea

Halloween at Willowdene

November 2021