Author Archives: Karen Betts

Holy Communion

Holy Communion This afternoon residents were joined by Frances and Jennifer from St Marks church [...]

Party Afternoon

This afternoon, residents enjoyed spending time in the main lounge to have a lovely party [...]

Bingo

This afternoon residents enjoyed some very close, exciting games of bingo. Almost all the numbers [...]

Arts and Crafts

This morning residents enjoyed a colouring in session. They relaxed as they used crayons to [...]

Cat Therapy

This afternoon residents enjoyed spending time with our therapy cats. This brought much joy, and [...]

Motion

This morning residents enjoyed a Motion session, led by Aaron. Whilst listening to 60s music, [...]

Time together project + picnic

This afternoon Ted and Brenda enjoyed a day out. We enjoyed going for a picnic [...]

Oomph Interactive

This morning residents enjoyed doing an online quiz together. There was some head scratching for [...]

Brenda’s Birthday Party

This afternoon residents enjoyed celebrating a very happy birthday for Brenda, Andy Greaves providing the [...]

Sensory Session

This morning, residents enjoyed a nice calm sensory session which was very relaxing. We enjoyed [...]

Indoor Football

This after residents enjoyed playing some indoor football, the goals were flying in, and lots [...]

Pen Pals

This morning residents enjoyed writing letters to children at the local nursery. They loved sharing [...]

Summer Fayre

This afternoon residents enjoyed a nice day out in the garden for our annual summer [...]

Cycling without age

This morning, Carol enjoyed going on a cycle ride around Weston Park, provided by Eric [...]

Alice’s Anniversary

This afternoon, Alice enjoyed celebrating her anniversary with some tea and cakes in the green [...]

Karaoke

This afternoon the residents were entertained with a karaoke session. There was plenty of singing [...]

Costa Trip

This morning, Wendy and Jean enjoyed a lovely trip out to Costa. We had a [...]

Memory games

This morning residents enjoyed testing there knowledge out whilst throwing and catching a memory ball. [...]

Birthday Party

This afternoon, residents enjoyed celebrating Margaret and Alice’s birthdays in the main lounge. We had [...]

Motion

This morning residents enjoyed a wonderful chair exercise Motion session, led by Aaron. They shook [...]

Balloon Tennis

This afternoon residents enjoyed an energetic game of balloon tennis, whilst listening to some music [...]

Social Morning

This morning residents enjoyed spending time in the main lounge to enjoy a nice social [...]

Sensory

This afternoon residents enjoyed a calming session of sensory play where they were given the [...]

Book Sharing

This morning the residents enjoyed a lovely book sharing session in which they were given [...]

70’s Themed Party

This afternoon residents enjoyed a lovely 70’s themed party in the main lounge which was [...]

In house church

This morning residents enjoyed taking part in our in-house church session. We had a lovely [...]

Cycling without age

This morning Marilyn enjoyed a lovely ride out on the cycling without age bike with [...]

Singalong

This afternoon residents enjoyed a singalong and some dancing, to a selection of classic hits [...]

Balloon Tennis

This morning residents enjoyed an energetic game of balloon tennis, a great way to start [...]

Bingo

This afternoon residents enjoyed a very close game of bingo, with a few dabbers hovering [...]

Motion

This morning residents enjoyed a wonderful active Motion session, led by Aaron. They did a [...]

Wish Tree- Botanical Gardens

This morning residents enjoyed a lovely trip out to the botanical gardens for Lilian’s wish [...]

Quiz Night

This afternoon residents enjoyed some exciting quiz rounds, they gathered together in teams, came up [...]

Crucible tea dance

This morning residents enjoyed a lovely trip out to the crucible theatre for our monthly [...]

Local Walk

This afternoon Maureen enjoyed the beautiful weather outside, by taking a trip up to the [...]

Aqua Painting

This morning residents enjoyed painting using water, as they brushed water over the picture, it [...]

Alphabet Games

This afternoon residents enjoyed a memory inspiring session of “Alphabet Games”. They picked a letter [...]

Coffee and pastry morning

This morning residents enjoyed some lovely pastries, and a hot drink, whilst spending some time [...]

Balloon Tennis

This afternoon residents enjoyed a very fun game of balloon tennis, using pool noodles they [...]

This morning residents enjoyed joining in a game of play your cards right. We chatted [...]

Hallamshire Festival

This afternoon residents enjoyed a wonderful Hallamshire Festival, with the amazing Emily Capp providing the [...]

Motion

This morning residents enjoyed an invigorating start to the day, with Aaron leading a chair [...]

Motion

This morning residents enjoyed an invigorating start to the day, with Aaron leading a chair [...]

Doll Therapy

This afternoon residents enjoyed spending time with our therapy dolls. Lots of smiles, cuddles and [...]

Butterfly House

This morning residents enjoyed a wonderful trip to the Butterfly House in Anston. They enjoyed [...]

Afternoon tea

This afternoon residents enjoyed taking part in our monthly afternoon tea. We had a wonderful [...]

Holy communion

This afternoon residents enjoyed our monthly holy communion service in the conservatory run by St [...]

Intergens

This morning residents enjoyed a fun and lively visit from the Sheffield Hallam University Nursery [...]

Golf in Society

This afternoon, residents enjoyed taking part in our monthly golf in society session in the [...]

In house church

This morning we enjoyed a lovely in house church session in the green lounge which [...]

Cycling Without Age

This morning, Gordon enjoyed a lovely trip out on the cycling without age bike. We [...]

Gentleman’s Afternoon

This afternoon residents enjoyed a cold lager on this hot day. They chatted about football, [...]

Ladies Morning

This morning residents enjoyed a sit outside, on this beautiful warm day. They had a [...]

Twin Therapy

Yesterday afternoon residents greatly enjoyed Becky bringing her twin children in. They played instruments together [...]

Motion

This morning, residents enjoyed a wonderful energetic motion session, with Zeezy, Dan and Ellie. They [...]

Music Bingo

This afternoon residents enjoyed a really fun game of bingo, with plenty of singalong included. [...]

Motion

This morning residents enjoyed an energetic start to the day, with Aaron leading them in [...]

Time Together Project

This afternoon residents enjoyed going to the ‘Time Together Project’, at the Crucible. Whilst there [...]

Cat Therapy

This morning residents enjoyed spending time with our interactive, cat therapy dolls. This brought a [...]

Martin’s birthday party

This afternoon residents enjoyed spending time in the main lounge for Martin’s birthday party which [...]

National Bakewell Tart Day

This morning residents enjoyed some Bakewell tarts along with a cup of tea to celebrate [...]

Hand Treatments

This afternoon, residents enjoyed a relaxing session of hand and nail treatments. They chatted about [...]

Wish Tree

This morning Brenda and Ted enjoyed a lovely trip out to Hillsborough Park to complete [...]

Football

This afternoon, to celebrate the start of the EFL football season, residents enjoyed playing football [...]

Cycling Without Age

This morning a resident enjoyed a wonderful cycle ride to Weston Park, provided by Heike. [...]

Puzzles and Quizzes

Thursday afternoon residents enjoyed taking part in a quiz about animals, it had us scratching [...]

Motion

This morning residents enjoyed taking part in chair based exercises, led by Aaron. From shaking [...]

Cheese tasting

This morning residents enjoyed taking part in a cheese tasting morning in the main lounge [...]

Restaurant experience

This afternoon Marilyn enjoyed taking part in our restaurant experience with her husband Ian in [...]

Social Afternoon

This afternoon residents enjoyed sharing a cuppa and conversation together in the Green Lounge. The [...]

Balloon Tennis

This morning residents enjoyed a few energising games of balloon tennis with staff. This is [...]

In House Church

This afternoon residents enjoyed singing hymns, and spending time fellowshipping together over a drink. It [...]

Sensory Session

This morning residents enjoyed a multi-sensory session, including familiar textures, smells and sounds. This brought [...]

Cinema Afternoon

This afternoon residents enjoyed watching the classic film, Alice in Wonderland. Many had seen it [...]

Flower Arranging

This morning residents enjoyed looking at and arranging some beautiful roses. This sparked happy memories [...]

International beer day

This afternoon residents enjoyed spending some time in the green lounge to celebrate international beer [...]

Aqua Painting

This morning residents enjoyed taking part in some aqua painting in the main lounge. We [...]

Gardening club

This afternoon residents enjoyed spending some time out in the garden planting some lovely colourful [...]

Trip to shops

This morning Wendy enjoyed a nice walk down to Tesco to but some nice flower [...]

Ethel barge

Today residents enjoyed a wonderful trip out to Thorne to go on the Ethel barge [...]

Pom pom making

This afternoon residents enjoyed spending some time doing a bit of arts and crafts. We [...]

Colouring and puzzles

This morning residents enjoyed completing some colouring of some summer pictures and different bits of [...]

Garden Walks

This afternoon residents enjoyed taking a walk outside, and having a look at the beautiful [...]

Bingo

This morning residents enjoyed playing some bingo. The calls and numbers went out, and there [...]

Women’s Euro’s Final

This evening, residents enjoyed watching England and Spain, in the Women’s Euro’s Final. They had [...]

Doll Therapy

This afternoon residents enjoyed spending time with our therapy dolls. This brought up memories and [...]

Golf in society

This afternoon residents gathered in the main lounge for our monthly golf in society session [...]

Memory ball games

This afternoon residents enjoyed some lovely games using the memory ball. While some residents enjoyed [...]

Painting

Residents enjoyed a lovely session of painting this morning in which they were able to [...]

Stanley therapy

This afternoon residents enjoyed a lovely visit from Stanley the dog. We had a great [...]

Motion

This morning residents gathered in the main lounge for our weekly motion session with the [...]

Reminiscence

Residents enjoyed a lovely reminiscence session this afternoon. This included looking at fun remembering book [...]

Holy communion

This afternoon residents enjoyed taking part in our monthly holy communion service in the conservatory. [...]

Crucible Tea Dance

This morning residents enjoyed our monthly tea dance trip at the crucible. They enjoyed delicious [...]

Euro’s Party

This afternoon residents gathered in the main lounge for a euro’s party to celebrate the [...]

Inspiration tree

This morning residents enjoyed having a chat, and thinking back to inspiration they’ve picked up [...]

Sensory

This afternoon residents enjoyed a sensory experience, engaging with sight, sound, smell and touch. This [...]

Ladies Morning

This morning, residents enjoyed having a time of fellowship together, over a cuppa. We watched [...]

Wish tree – Tennis

This evening 2 of our residents enjoyed a lovely trip out to rustling tennis club [...]

Motion

This morning residents gathered in the main lounge for our weekly motion session with Aaron [...]