A Christmas Wish

This year we are focusing on fulfilling people’s Christmas wishes. Whether this is recreating old traditions or trying something new, we are up to the challenge! To kick off our first Christmas wish , one of our residents has never managed to successfully leave the building because she experiences severe anxiety, but this week we…

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Cinderella On Stage

The Carousel Entertainment company came in and performed the pantomime, Cinderella, to some of the residents and staff. Everyone really enjoyed watching the cast, and joined in with their singing. The performers made the residents laugh, with their jokes and booing. Some of the residents from our sister home, Milkwood, were able to join us…

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Pets From Home

One day, we invited staff to bring in their pets from home. We spent a wonderful day with the lovely Taisie, (Linzi’s beautiful, blue eyed pooch), our gorgeous residential cat, Missy, and rabbits, Bonnie and Clyde. The animals brought big smiles to the faces of our residents who really enjoyed fussing Missy, stroking the rabbits…

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Christmas Visit to Raglan Garden Centre

We got into the Christmas spirit early when we visited Raglan Garden Centre. Residents Freda and Liz really enjoyed the Christmas displays and said they were “wonderful”. There were lots of beautiful decorations to admire and some fantastic Christmas trees on show. When we had finished looking at the Christmas displays, we all enjoyed a…

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Activities Team of The Year

To finish our summary about “Trophy Thursday”, we finished the evening of Thursday 2nd December at the Athena Hotel, Leicester, for the national Caring UK 2021 awards where Castleford House Lifestyles Coordinations team had been nominated for the “Activities Team of the Year” award. The awards are a national event that “celebrates excellence throughout the…

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Healthy Workplace Award

What a day Thursday 2nd December 2021 was! It was the day Castleford House Nursing Home took home two awards – one local, one national in an absolutely incredible evening.To kick off our roundup of “Trophy Thursday”, we started the evening at Gloucestershire University, where Jess Gayford, Fiona Hutchings, Anna Mason, Jade Mason and Kym…

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Honeysuckle Lounge

Milkwood House is pleased to announce the opening of our new “Honeysuckle Lounge”.Many of our visitors will remember Cynthia, or Ben as she was known, being a part of the furniture at Milkwood after being resident here since 2010 for her larger-than-life attitude, dancing and filthy laugh.Very sadly, Ben passed away in August of this…

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We Are Getting Festive!

Our artistically talented activities team are busy preparing for the Christmas festivities, already feeling the Christmas buzz here at the mountains. This is also a time we stop and reflect on the memory of all of the residents we sadly lost through the year as we think of them and their families at this time…

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Tis’ The Season

Today, we have made a start on decorating our wonderful home ready for the Christmas season! The resident’s have gotten into the festive season with Santa hats and listening to traditional Christmas songs! One resident has sang along to all of the, showing us all her fantastic voice! She said: “I’ve got my chocolate, my…

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