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 [...]

St Marks Church outing

Valerie and Nicole enjoyed the St Marks church service very much this morning. Nicole enjoyed [...]

Tabby Teas Cafe

We had a very enjoyable time at the Tabby Teas Cat Cafe this morning. Some [...]

Cycling without age – 5th July 2019

We were fortunate to have beautiful weather today for out our Cycling without age session! [...]

Lost Chord – 5th July

We had a fabulous time with Julie and Juliet, who sang and played the keyboard [...]

Dementia Is… Exhibition

This year’s SYDCAE exhibition was held at Meadowhall Interchange and not the Cathedral, as in [...]

Songbirds 2nd July 2019

We had a lovely songbirds session lead by Yo. We sang a variety of songs [...]

Little Acorns – 1st July 2019

We had a lovely time with the Little Acorns toddler group this morning. We had [...]

Garden activities. 29th June 2019

  This morning we sat in the shade in the garden as it was lovely [...]

Godly Play

We had this month’s Godly Play session in the Conservatory, on such a beautiful sunny [...]

Cycling Without Age

Clare took Roy and his son Matt for a ride round the General Cemetery, which [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 27th June 2019

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

Buzz

Tracy and Rita took a small group of residents to the Buzz coffee morning today [...]

Ebony

We were very excited to meet Ebony today (Betty’s new PAT dog in the making). [...]

Annie

We enjoyed a very lively birthday celebration for Wendy and Nellie this afternoon led by [...]

Holy Communion Service

We were grateful to Frances who came from St Marks to give us our monthly [...]

Buzz

Tracy and Rita walked a small group (Arthur, Pamela Crossland, Susan and Deborah) round to [...]

Gardening Club

Caroline led a group focusing on the subject of bees. They looked at different plants/flowers [...]

Little Acorns – 17.6.19

We had a special session today! We had Holly from Pyjama Drama come and do [...]

Father’s Day Party – 16th June 2019

We celebrated Father’s Day and Lois’s Birthday with the help of Patrick and his band. [...]

Nicole’s Settling-in Party

Nicole ‘s family invited some of us to her settling in party in the downstairs [...]

Cycling Without Age

We had a fun taster session, taking part in the Cycling Without Age scheme, with [...]

Engelbert Humperdinck

We had great fun reminiscing and listening to Engelbert this afternoon, learning a little about [...]

Irish Tea Dance

A small group of us went to the Irish Tea Dance this month to see [...]

Song Birds – 11th June 2019

We had a very enjoyable Song Birds session, led by Yo. We sat in a [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a lively “musical” Memory Cafe today with percussion instruments and Tracy on the [...]

St Marks Church outing

There was a service celebrating Pentecost at St Marks today and it was a pleasure [...]

Motion exercise – 06.06.19

We had a visit from two young girls who did a variety of activities with [...]

Kevin Kitchen

We had another amazing party time with Kevin Kitchen – celebrating Margaret Saunders’ belated birthday [...]

Pony Therapy – 4.6.2019

Leo, the miniature Sheltand pony, came to see us with his owner.  He was very [...]

Little Acorns – 3rd June 2019

We had a quality over quantity session this morning with the Little Acorns toddler group, [...]

Godly Play

Tracy told the story of Abraham and Sarah in Godly Play today. We enjoyed this [...]

Baking in the Conservatory

Margaret Pashley, Margaret Saunders, Olga and Anne all helped out in the mixing and cleaning [...]

Songs From the Musicals

We had a lovely afternoon listening to Tracy’s record player. We’ve managed to find some [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 30th May 2019

We had a lovely time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today. Our regular singer [...]

Showroom Cinema – 28.5.19

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

Stephen Hill Church

Margaret Saunders and Elsie chose to go along to Stephen Hill Methodist Church in Crosspool [...]

Visit from Dolly and Saffi

Great to have Debbie and her friend visit again with those lovely puppies – now [...]

Gardening Club

We had another exciting Gardening Club session with Caroline which involved being out in the [...]

Buzz

Arthur, Susan and Tricia all had a good time at Buzz today. We chatted and [...]

Song Birds 21st May 2019

We had our very first session of Song Birds music therapy this afternoon, lead by [...]

Little Acorns – 20th May 2019

We had a very relaxed session with the toddler group this morning. There were four [...]

Weston Park May Fair

We had a very exciting time at the Weston Park May Fair this year. We [...]

Buzz Coffee morning – 15.5.19

We had a lovely walk to St Andrews church hall for the Buzz Coffee morning [...]

Crucible Tea Dance – 14.5.19

her daughter Julie, Betty our volunteer, Vicky and Elsie. We started off with a picnic [...]

Memory Cafe

It was a beautiful day for our journey to the Jesus Centre with some going [...]