We are very fortunate to have such a wonderful community network around us. We cannot thank everyone enough for the wonderful kindness and support you have shown our home this year.  Thank you to each and every one of you, we are so very grateful and cannot wait to be able to invite you into our home next year!.

Stourport High School & VIth form college students Jasmine and Hannah, winners of The Wharf Christmas card competition.  PC Pat Roberts kindly donated the prizes and we received beautiful Christmas gift boxes full of presents for residents with very little or no family. They will be overjoyed by such kindness when we hand these out on Christmas day!.

Residents at White Rose Lodge have been participating in a daily festive advent quiz this year for the chance of winning chocolates.  

Having a safe place to connect with friends and family is so important for those living in our homes, and this visiting pod does exactly that!

The Mayor of Abingdon recently cut the ribbon on this new visiting pod at Abingdon Court Care Home. Creating it has been a real team effort, with all the staff coming together to design and form this space. It’s already had a great impact on everyone and is testament to the work this home does for those living in it.

Donna McDermott, Care Practitioner at Bowerfield Court, is donating her hair for wigs to be made for people with cancer. Kirsty Randall, Home Manager at Bowerfield Court and Bowerfield House, and Peter Baumber, a resident at Bowerfield Court, cut Donna's hair on Tuesday 15th December in front of residents, staff and relatives who joined via video call. 

Donna is an amazing lady and has raised £600 so far with 24 hours still for people to donate. The money raised will be donated to The Princes Trust and the other half to be decided. 

We made hand made angels to decorate our Christmas tree this year at Troutbeck Care Home. We will be sending our angels out to families for Christmas. 

A huge thank you to Matron Sue and Sister Maria from Wexham Park Hospital A&E who delivered a personalised gift and card for every one living at Windmill Care Home, Slough today, along with a few little extras to ensure that any new arrivals who may come into join us at all Windmill before Christmas have a gift to open on Christmas Day. 

At Acorn House they have been blessed to have had a new visiting pod built. All the materials were donated and a kind local joiner form the Blackburn area built it for free. All they wanted was cups of teas and biscuits! A huge shout out of thanks to the gents from AG joinery!

Here is a picture of our new visitor pod. It looks like it is going to be a successful addition to the home, with our friends and family's booking slots.

Residents at Skell Lodge have been writing Christmas cards to family and friends with special messages.