Christmas Eve

David and Katy asked our maintenance man, Julian, to build a sleigh. Julian attached the sleigh to the sides of David’s wheelchair. David’s family organised and sent an outfit to him here. David filled little stockings with chocolates, then delivered them to most of the residents in their rooms. Everyone really enjoyed seeing Santa. David…

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Christmas Presents

Monmouth girls school collected and delivered presents for all of our residents. Such a lovely idea. These are some pics of residents opening them all. Thank you Monmouth Girls School.

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Christmas Party

We held our annual Christmas party and the residents thoroughly enjoyed this, a massive thank you to Jay for the entertainment, the place was alive with fun and music, and to our hard working kitchen team who put on yet another wonderful spread.

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Castleford Christmas Carols

Yesterday evening we held our annual Christmas Carol concert with our friends, family and the community. And what a fantastic turn out we had! We spent the afternoon preparing some festive treats for our guests, ready for when they come to sing! We made cinnamon and gingerbread cupcakes, festive rocky road, mulled wine and our…

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Party On

Christmas at Applewood, this year, was one long party! Kicking off the celebrations was Cinderella. Residents enjoyed the production brought to us by Tickled Pink Theatre Productions.

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Christmas Party

Our residents enjoyed their Christmas party, complete with party food and party hats! Staff wore their very best Christmas outfits, music was played and we held a wonderful raffle with some lovely prizes!

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Dunelm Mystery Box

Today we went to collect our Dunelm mystery box from Gloucester, after we had the highest vote in a Facebook competition! On of our resident’s , who has regularly asked about the competition after we told her about it, joined us to come and collect it. She had a fantastic time looking around the shop…

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Brass Band

Residents at The Orchard and Ganarew house were treated to a wonderful carol concert performed by brass band – The A W Parker (Drybrook) Band.Residents enjoyed listening and singing along to a medley of Christmas carols, all expertly performed outside in the grounds of our care homes.To keep warm, mulled wine and mince pies were…

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