Flamenco dancing

We had a fantastic morning, celebrating Valerie Loft’s birthday. We had a Flamenco dancer called [...]

Gardening Club

There was a distinct Autumn feel to our gardening session today in the Conservatory. It [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a Royal Family theme at the Memory Cafe today with lots of books, [...]

Walks

It was a calm, sunny Saturday afternoon and no rain for a change, so Tracy [...]

Reminiscence Box

We borrowed a reminiscence box from the Montgomery Theatre Museum. It was fascinating to look [...]

Songs From the Musicals

We had a very interesting time looking at and reading the record cover “The King [...]

“Pictures to Share” Place Mats

We had fun over lunchtime looking at our new table mats with old photos for [...]

Irish Tea Dance

We had a fantastic time at the Irish Tea Dance, (which is held at the [...]

Bingo – 8th October 2019

Vicky played quite a few games of Bingo with us today. We had chocolate as [...]

Opening Birthday Cards

We opened Florence’s birthday cards together (a few days late) and I read them out [...]

Little Acorns – 7th October 2019

We had a very enjoyable Little Acorns session this morning. We had four children and [...]

Cycling Without Age

We had another excellent Cycling Without Age session this week with Liz on the tri-bike [...]

Lost Chord

We had another fabulous Lost Chord session this month with Grace (singing), and Zhao on [...]

Roy’s Birthday Celebration

Tracy gave a personal guitar sing-a-long performance for Roy today, with his family present. We [...]

Royal Family Day

We had a very enjoyable day looking at pictures, books and memorabilia about the Royal [...]

Buzz

We enjoyed a sunny walk to Buzz this morning. Pam chose to collect a few [...]

Celebrating Paula’s Birthday

We had good fun this morning surprising our new carer, Paula, with a coffee and [...]

Baking in the lounge

Olga, Pamela Crossland and Mary all had great fun this morning baking a birthday cake [...]

Farewell to Richard

We sang “We’ll Meet Again” to Richard (one of our chefs) who worked his last [...]

Macmillan Coffee Morning

We were very pleased to raise £70 for the Macmillan fund today. Grace and Ursula [...]

Cycling Without Age

Olga enjoyed a journey around Weston Park this afternoon with Peter (first time for our [...]

Jesus Centre Teadance

We have a wonderful time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today. We had Alan [...]

Buzz Coffee Morning 25th September 2019

Vicky and Krystal took us to St Andrew church hall for the Buzz coffee morning. [...]

Showroom cinema 24th September 2019

Vicky and Betty took us to the Showroom Cinema for the monthly Dementia friendly screening. [...]

Gardening Club – 23rd September 2019

We had a very enjoyable gardening Club today with Caroline. We had Peggy join us, [...]

Little Acorns – 23rd September 2019

We had a fab time in Little Acorns toddler group this morning. We had three [...]

Air pong – 22nd September 2019

Vicky was inspired to try a game of air pong with us, (Like beer pong, [...]

Wentworth Garden Centre – 21st September 2019

We had a practice trip out to Wentworth garden centre with Vicky, ready for our [...]

Godly Play

We had another exciting Godly Play session, with a packed-out room for the Creation Story. [...]

Baking Activity

Tracy needed some willing volunteers to help bake for the Godly Play event this afternoon [...]

Cycling Without Age

Tricia thoroughly enjoyed another ride in the tri-bike Rhubarb this afternoon, in the glorious sunshine, [...]

Guitar Sing-a-long in the Garden

We made the most of the sunshine today and went out into the garden after [...]

Motion

  We had great fun with Megan from Motion today. We sat in a circle [...]

Songbirds 17th September 2019

We had a lovely Songbirds session with Yo and Vicky in the quiet lounge. We [...]

Memory Cafe

We had another enjoyable Memory Cafe event at the Jesus Centre today. It was good [...]

Beach Day

We had a very enjoyable beach day in the garden this afternoon with a sand [...]

Cycling without age 13th September

This afternoon we were fortunate enough to have a few trips in the rickshaw bike, [...]

Flower Arranging 13th September

This morning we were donated some flowers from St Mary’s church, so Vicky supervised us [...]

Crucible Tea Dance – 12th September

Helen took three residents to the Crucible tea dance this afternoon.  The attendees were Marion, [...]

The Light Cinema – 12th September 2019

Vicky took us to the Light Cinema, along with one of our volunteers Krystal. We [...]

Buzz

We had a fun time at Buzz today. Tricia was engaged in a beautiful colouring [...]

Sing along session

This morning Vicky did a sing along session with us in the conservatory. We ended [...]

Lost Chord

Alistair and Sophia gave us a lively performance this morning on the keyboard with songs [...]

Cycling Without Age

We had another exciting Cycling Without Age session with Peter, a new driver, taking us [...]

Our Favourite Music

Listening to a Gilbert & Sullivan record has been a great opportunity to reminisce. Olga [...]

Creative Mojo

Elaine came to the Home to do a creative session with the residents. We painted [...]

Buzz

We had a pleasant walk to St Andrew’s Church today in the warmth and sunshine. [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a brilliant time at the Memory Cafe today and were pleased to be [...]

Pippa’s Birthday party – 2nd September 2019

We had a fab time together this afternoon, celebrating Pippa’s birthday. We had Ralph Shaw [...]

St Marks Church Service

We enjoyed a lovely service at St Marks this morning with Nicole, Elsie and Valerie [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance 29th August 2019

We had a lovely time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance this morning. We had [...]

Calamity Jane -27th August 2019

We had a fun trip out to the Showroom cinema with Vicky and Betty to [...]

Garden antics with Vicky and Helen 24th August 2019

This afternoon we sat out in the garden as the weather was lovely. We had [...]

Cycling Without Age 23.8.19

It was a beautiful day and Peter enjoyed a trip with Cycling without Age to [...]

Godly Play 23rd August 2019

The session today had a mix of 19 residents, family, friends  and volunteers. Our story [...]

Holy Communion Service

We had a lovely Holy Communion Service in the Conservatory this afternoon, led by Jennifer [...]

Janet’s Birthday Party – 19.8.19

Nigel Bane came to sing for us today and helped us to celebrate Janet’s birthday. [...]

Peter’s Birthday

We had fun celebrating the birthday of our new resident, Peter Lemmings today. We sang [...]

Crich Tramway village – 13th August 2019

We had a lovely day out to Crich Tramway Village. We had a lovely volunteer [...]

Cycling Without Age

Olga had the first ride today with Karen (works in Laundry) and really enjoyed being [...]

NCS Student Visit

The students did a paper mache activity in the morning – sticking strips of paper [...]

NCS afternoon outing

The NCS students and Tracy went for a walk with 4 residents in wheelchairs – [...]

Motion

Jess came from Motion today to give us an excellent exercise session in the small [...]

NCS Visit

We had a sensory experience this morning, with Orbz and fun and games. Residents enjoyed [...]

NCS Student Visit

The NCS students paid us an afternoon visit and played games with some of the [...]

Crucible Tea-dance

We had an excellent Crucible Tea-dance this time with our “birthday girl” Elsie going along [...]

NCS Student Visit

  It was great to have a large group of NCS students visit us for [...]

Memory Cafe

We only had a few helpers today so took a smaller group – Olga, Marion [...]

James Columbine

We had a wonderful birthday celebration for Elsie who was joined by her daughters, Sandra [...]

Jesus Centre Gala

Lots of relatives and friends wanted to come along to this event so there was [...]

NCS Student visit – 31st July 2019

We had some NCS students come to spend time with our residents this afternoon, which [...]

Showroom Cinema 30th July 2019

We had a trip out to the Showroom Cinema this morning with Vicky to see [...]

Little Acorns Picnic at Botanical Gardens – 29th July 2019

We had a fantastic time at the Botanical Gardens this morning. Vicky almost cancelled it [...]

Karaoke Party – 27th July 2019

It was Norah’s birthday today and even though we had the mini zoo come out [...]

Dolly the dog – 27.07.19

Pippa’s daughters Nicola and Steph came to see Pippa with their eighteen-month-old dog Dolly the [...]

Cycling Without Age

Margaret chose to go out with Cycling Without Age and Kirsty went with her, with [...]

Godly Play

Tracy told us the story of Moses and The Ten Best Ways to Live (Ten [...]

Leanimals – 26.7.19

We asked Leanne to bring along her mobile mini zoo today to help us celebrate [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 25th July 2019

We had a Tea Dance with a difference this morning. We had Roy’s son Matt [...]

Holy Communion Service

Frances led us in a quiet Holy Communion Service in a very hot Conservatory this [...]

Bridlington

We fancied a change from Cleethorpes by train so hired an SCT minibus and went [...]

Songbirds – 23rd July 2019

We had a great Songbirds session lead by Yo today. We had the session in [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a fantastic Memory Cafe today with all those walking or being pushed in [...]

St Marks Church

Tracy and Andy took Valerie Loft, Nicole and Elsie in their car to the St [...]

Summer Party

Summer Party – 20.7.19 We had a fabulous summer party with lots of friends and [...]

Cycling Without Age – 19.07.19

Oliver the volunteer came for an hour and a half this morning. Instead of taking [...]

Motion – 18th July 2019

We had a fab exercise session with Jess and Dell from Motion this morning. It [...]

Buzz

Sue, Arthur and Margaret Saunders enjoyed the walk/ride to Buzz on this lovely sunny day. [...]

Let’s Ride – 14.7.19

Helen asked Tricia if she would like to go to this event with Cycling Without [...]

Summer Show

North East Producers came to perform their summer show “When I’m Cleaning Windows” which included [...]

Medieval Mayhem – 15th July 2019

We had a trip out to Medieval Mayhem as part of our Little Acorns Intergenerational [...]

Rainbow string painting – 14th July

Vicky sat and showed us how to do string painting this afternoon. We quite enjoyed [...]

Cycling Without Age

Syd and Arthur both chose to go for a half hour ride to Weston Park [...]

Light Cinema – 11th July 2019

We had a very enjoyable trip out to the Light cinema with Vicky, Betty and [...]

Paul Barrie

We had a very enjoyable morning birthday celebration for Marion Kennedy today. Many got up [...]

Irish Tea dance

Sally entertained us with some fantastic Irish and modern tunes at the Philadelphia Club this [...]

Crucible Tea Dance – 9th July 2019

We had a lovely trip out to the Crucible Tea Dance today with Vicky and [...]

Gardening Club

The theme for gardening club today was weddings and we reminisced about our weddings and [...]

Memory Cafe

We had another fun session at the Memory Cafe today. Olga and Nicole came joint [...]

Weekend Walks around Broomhall

This weekend, Marjory travelled in a wheelchair with Tracy and Nicole walking alongside her to [...]