Lost Chord

We had a wonderful Lost Chord session in the Conservatory today with Terry on keyboard, [...]

Cycling Without Age

Pamela was offered a ride on the tri-bike, Rhubarb, today and she immediately said, “Yes [...]

Motion

We had a very interactive Motion event this afternoon with Jess leading the session. She [...]

Songbirds

We had such an enjoyable Songbirds session. Everyone had a great time!  We started with [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a much smaller Memory Cafe event due to a few of our volunteers [...]

Birthday Celebration

We had a double celebration today for the birthdays of Connie and Trisha. Beki Austin [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance

We had a fantastic time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today! We had a [...]

Little Women Movie

We had a pleasant trip out to the Showroom Cinema with Vicky to see Little [...]

Little Acorns Toddler session

We had a very enjoyable toddler group session this morning. We had eight residents attend, [...]

Arts and crafts

This afternoon I cut out some vase shapes and cut up some sponge. We sat [...]

Cycling Without Age

Olga jumped at the chance to go to the Botanical Gardens on the front of [...]

Godly Play

There was a smaller group of us today for Godly Play as some of our [...]

RSPB Bird Watch

Today Helen and Tracy encouraged residents to sit in the window to do the Big [...]

Songs From the Musicals

We spent a lovely afternoon in the main lounge today listening to our favourite songs [...]

Motion Filming

Motion asked us if we would take part in a promotional film for the Motion [...]

Songbirds

We had a fab Songbirds session this morning, led by Yo. The residents who took [...]

Memory Cafe

We enjoyed a walk out on a cold, sunny day to the Parlour Cafe at [...]

Baking

Olga, Margaret Saunders, Pam Crossland and Nicole all enjoyed baking coffee and walnut muffins today. [...]

Cycling Without Age

This afternoon we participated in the Cycling Without Age initiative. The volunteer today was called [...]

Holy Communion Service

We very much appreciated having Frances and Jenny come to the Home to give Holy [...]

Buzz

It was a bright but cold day for our weekly Buzz session. John came for [...]

Pamper Day

Today we had a pamper day. We had a visit from the hairdresser and then [...]

Gardening Club

We had another exciting Gardening club session today, talking about the RSPB and looking at [...]

Little Acorns toddler session

We had a very enjoyable Little Acorns toddler group session this morning. We had six [...]

Sing along session

Vicky, Helen and Krystal lead us in a song session, using the song sheets, dance [...]

Cycling Without Age

Pam was very keen on going out with Janet on the tri-bike this afternoon on [...]

Lost Chord

We had an amazing Lost Chord session today. Roy and Sonia paid us a return [...]

Irish Tea Dance

We had another lively Irish tea dance at the Philadelphia Club today. Steve took Win, [...]

Crucible Tea Dance

We had a fabulous Crucible tea dance this afternoon. Tracy and Andy took Elsie, John [...]

Memory Cafe

We had another fabulous Memory Cafe event today. Great to have Roy’s son, Matt, make [...]

Paul Barrie

Paul Barrie came to sing at Arthur’s birthday party this morning and Arthur’s son Grant [...]

Baking mince pies

Pam C, Mary and Marion Peck were all very keen to help make mince pies [...]

Godly Play

We began the session by singing Christmas carols, led by Tracy on the guitar and [...]

Santa Visit

Many were surprised to see Father Christmas, Mary Christmas and Santa’s Little Helper visit to [...]

Christmas visitors/meal

We had a fabulous Christmas meal prepared by our lovely chef Kirsty and her gran. [...]

Christmas eve shenanigans

We did various activities with Vicky on Christmas eve, including making snow globe magnets, playing [...]

Cinderella Panto Trip

We had a fab trip out to the Lyceum Theatre to See Cinderella. Vicky, Peter, [...]

Christmas Party

We had a fabulous time with the Andrew Watson Quintet (keyboard, drums, sax, clarinet, bass [...]

Christmas Holy Communion Service

We enjoyed a Christmas Holy Communion Service with Tracy playing carols on her guitar. Good [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance

We had our Christmas Tea Dance today, at the Sheffield Jesus Centre. Our regular singer, [...]

St Thomas Carollers

We had a lovely evening together singing Christmas carols with the help of our old [...]

Buzz Christmas party

We were very pleased to be invited by Buzz to their Christmas party/meal and Susan, [...]

Hand Bell Ringing

We had a visit from Holy Trinity Handbell Ringers this afternoon. They played us a [...]

St Marks Carols

This evening we had a visit from members of St Marks church, who sang carols [...]

Gardening Club

Caroline brought conifers and other evergreen plants in from the garden, as well as bringing [...]

Medieval Mayhem

Today was our Little Acorns (Intergenerational toddler group) Christmas party, hosted by Medieval Mayhem play [...]

Arts & Crafts session

Vicky got out some arts and crafts materials and set them up in the dining [...]

Upper Chapel coffee morning

We had a trip out to the Upper Chapel this morning. Vicky and Krystal took [...]

A Christmas Carol

It was good to have Jess and Andrew from North East Producers to act out [...]

Cinderella

We had another amazing pantomime at the Lyceum. They seem to get better every year. [...]

Irish Teadance

Steve and Ann took Win to the Irish Tea Dance with Margaret Pashley and Helen. [...]

Old Horns Inn

We enjoyed an excellent outing to the Old Horns Inn with a delightful ride through [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a lovely Christmas-themed Memory Cafe today with the Christmas Alphabet Game, with Pam’s [...]

Lost Chord

We had two lovely ladies from Lost Chord come to entertain us today. A singer [...]

Reindeer Ring Toss – 5th December 2019

This afternoon Vicky blew up the inflatable Reindeer ring toss game that she bought, and [...]

Cookie decorating – 2nd December 2019

Vicky brought in some digestive biscuits, large marshmallows and icing in. We had a go [...]

Birthday party for Lillie and Val

Rebekah Austin helped us to celebrate the birthdays of Lillie and Val C. We had [...]

Godly Play

We enjoyed another Godly Play story with Tracy called the Ark and the Tent. We [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 28th November 2019

We had a very enjoyable time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today with Vicky [...]

Motion

We had another exciting Motion session with three students coming to help us do some [...]

Wentworth Garden Centre

We had an enjoyable trip out to Wentworth garden centre with Vicky and Hellen. We [...]

Memory Cafe

It was a rainy day when we set off for the Memory Cafe but we [...]

Guitar Sing-a-long

Tracy led a guitar sing-a-long in the main lounge whilst Terry and Matthew were visiting. [...]

RMC Dance Performance

We were all thrilled to have the RMC dance class, led by Rachel, from the [...]

Cycling Without Age

Janet was or “pilot” for the afternoon and although it looked like rain, the rain [...]

Buzz Coffee morning

This morning we enjoyed some fresh air on the way to Buzz coffee morning with [...]

Music session

Vicky and Helen had a music session with us. We used musical instruments and ribbon [...]

Little Acorns

We had an enjoyable time with Little Acorns toddler session this morning with three children [...]

Air Pong

Vicky set up a game of air pong in the dining room. (A bit like [...]

Holy Communion

The Conservatory was packed out for our Holy Communion Service with Jennifer and Frances leading [...]

Irish Tea Dance

It was a cold but sunny day when we headed off to the Philadelphia Club [...]

Crucible Tea Dance – 12th November 2019

We had a very enjoyable trip out to the Crucible tea Dance this afternoon, with [...]

Gardening Club

We had great fun today making Scandinavian wreathes with wire, fern and various trimmings. Beautiful. [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a lovely time at the Memory Cafe today and were able to take [...]

Remembrance Service

Tracy led a Remembrance Sunday service in the small lounge. Margaret Seal, Olga, Marion Peck [...]

St Marks

We had a very enjoyable time at the Remembrance Sunday Service at St Marks on [...]

Marek’s Birthday

We celebrated Marek’s birthday with chocolate cake and sang Happy Birthday to him. We all [...]

Lost Chord

Deborah and Alistair came from Lost Chord to sing us a whole variety of songs [...]

Music & Dementia Workshop

We all had great fun in the lounge this afternoon taking part in a workshop [...]

Buzz

We wrapped up warm before heading off to Buzz this morning. Susan enjoyed chatting to [...]

Bonfire Party

We had another exciting Bonfire party with lots of family, staff and friends joining in [...]

Little Acorns

We had an extra special toddler group session this morning! We started with free play [...]

Cycling Without Age

It was a bit cool and damp but we managed to get out on a [...]

Baking in the Lounge

We enjoyed making Halloween buns together using green and orange food colouring. Pam is a [...]

Halloween Party

We had a fabulous Halloween Party and we were thrilled to see Mary’s great grandkids, [...]

Visit from Nelson

Rita brought Nelson in to see everyone this morning. Many enjoyed seeing and petting him. [...]

Showroom Cinema

Vicky took us to the monthly Dementia screening at the Showroom cinema in town. This [...]

Memory Cafe

We had an enjoyable walk down to the Jesus Centre today for our fortnightly Memory [...]

Guitar Sing-a-long

We had a fabulous time singing our heads off to some of the tunes we [...]

St Marks Church

We enjoyed a lovely time at St Marks this morning and were delighted to be [...]

Reminiscence Box

We borrowed another reminiscence box from the Montgomery Theatre and were happy to look at [...]

Buzz

We had a pleasant walk out in the sunshine to St Andrews church this morning [...]

Songbirds

We had a marvelous time with Yo and Vicky at Song Birds this this afternoon. [...]

Little Acorns

We had a very enjoyable time with the Little Acorns Toddler group this morning. We [...]

Deborah’s birthday

We celebrated Deborah’s birthday today by singing Happy Birthday and 21 Today. She had a [...]

Baking

We had fun this morning making melting moment biscuits for our Godly Play event later [...]

Godly Play

We had another exciting Godly Play story again today – The Story of Noah and [...]

Painting

We had great fun painting a rainbow for our Godly Play story tomorrow. Both Nicole [...]

Holy Communion Service

We were pleased to have our friends from St Marks Church, Frances and Jenny, come [...]

Visit from Ebony

We were very pleased today to have a visit from Betty who brought along her [...]