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Happy New Year

As we bid farewell to 2019 and welcome in 2020, we want to take time to wish all our residents, staff, relatives, friends, neighbours and colleagues a very Happy New Year.

We hope that it will be a good year for you all, and that you are able to keep all the resolutions you have made!
We hope you enjoyed our posts on social media over the Christmas period, and one of our resolutions for 2020 is to make sure we keep you entertained with exciting news throughout the coming year.

If from reading our page over the last year you have any suggestions as to how we can improve our content then please do send them to us. We already have some ideas of our own….but it would be great to get some from our readers.

We look forward to hearing from you in 2020!

Merry Christmas!

We would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Prosperous New Year.

In particular we would like to send best wishes to all our staff who are working so hard today to make sure that all our residents who need care and support have the best Christmas possible.

We would also like to send our best wishes to the many relatives and friends who also give of themselves to help support loved ones.

Wishing you all the love and light this Christmas!

Celebrating Sixty!

Recently our lovely resident Andrew Shepherd celebrated his 60th Birthday.

He had a big pile of presents and we made him a scrummy cake with lots of candles to blow out.

Andrew had great fun opening all his presents and would like to thank everyone who gave him presents, was involved in the cake making, and especially those who joined in a fab rendition of Happy Birthday for him.

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Spooky Times at Churchview!

We held a Spooky event at Churchview last week when staff, children, residents and their families attended a lovely Halloween Party at the home. The children really enjoyed making hime made slime, face painting and the trick or treat board.

We had a great spooky BBQ with some scary looking cakes that looked like eye balls and spiders – yummy!

A great day and enjoyed by everyone – roll on next year.

Amazing apparitions in Ilkeston!

Well we certainly saw some things this Halloween in Ilkeston. Not the least of which was the sight of everyone who attended our fantastic Halloween party. The children all had a great time with the face painting, and we think you will agree there are some pretty spooky characters on show.

We think all the residents and staff look amazing in their Halloween outfits and what a lot of time and effort everyone went to to make sure the party was a spooktacular success!

Bonfire beauty!

We had a great Fireworks night here in Ilkeston.

We decided to support the Cricket Club fireworks display and were treated to a beautiful show.

Lots of cracking, whizzing and popping…not to mention some pretty loud bangs. A cold night but we were kept warm by the lovely hot burgers we decided to munch on.

Cracking evening all round!

Recognising World Mental Health Day

As a company that helps and supports people with mental health difficulties we believe that it is crucially important that we recognise World Mental Health Day today.

This is a day for global mental health education, awareness and for people and organisations like ours, to advocate against the social stigma that often attaches itself to people who are living with poor mental health. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries.

We recognise that people should feel OK about saying when they can’t handle everything on their own, and that it’s important that they feel free in our society to do so. We would urge everyone who may be struggling to take a minute to remember that it’s okay to need others and to reach out for help.

That’s what we are here for – to help people when they need us.

Professional Care Workers Day..

Today is Professional Care Workers Day and so we would love you all to take a moment to send a big thank you to our wonderful staff to acknowledge the amazing work that they do.

The care, compassion, empathy and dedication, come rain or shine makes such a difference.

Thank you to everyone who makes what we do possible.

Giving people choice in their lives

One of the most important things to try and do for the people we care for and support, is to give them choice in their lives.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in their choice of what they eat on a daily basis. Our policy is that each resident should have time to select what they want to eat.

Lunch periods are usually longer with all staff present to assist them. Everything is displayed, whether hot or cold, and we are able to respond to their preferred method of communication when choosing their meals. We have a themed day once a week and cook everything from Chinese to Spanish tapas.

So successful have we been that we have now put this down on our PIR from for our CQC inspections. We aim to continue to improve the choice we give our residents as we move towards the Winter menu.

The feedback for our efforts has been great from both residents and staff. We are inspired to ensure that we not only maintain this effort but make give even greater choice in the future.

A fantastic holiday!

At Churchview and Larklands we love to enjoy a holiday.
Here are some fab pics of one of our lovely residents enjoying hers at The Best Western Spa in Kegworth.
Apparently there were lots of girlie adventures and of course matching PJs were essential.

Thanks to Best Western for a great time and here’s to the next holiday.

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