Castleford House

When life gives you lemons, build a new salon! Today, we proudly unveiled our new, bespoke, lemon-themed salon. We wanted to make our hairdressing day a more person-centred and enjoyable experience for people here. With the invaluable support of our new home manager, Tracy, we have been able to achieve this- and exceed all expectations…

The wonderful Nicola Bullivant visited Castleford to provide home communion to meet our residents’ religious and spiritual needs.  Residents had a choice of receiving communion or a blessing, after we sang our choice of hymn: “All things bright and beautiful.”  We ended the service by coming together to read the Lords Prayer. Thank you Nicki…

Our new lady, Mo, and Sheila visited the Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo in Symonds Yat! With magnifying glasses at the ready and our butterfly species identity cards, we headed into the enclosure. We admired a variety of beautiful butterflies of all different sizes and colours. The butterflies are so tame, they got very close to…

To prepare for Easter, we sampled a variety of different hot cross buns. With a whopping six different flavours to choose from our hot cross buns were toasted, buttered, and served hot with an obligatory cup of tea.From savoury to sweet, the flavoured buns left people torn, but the most favoured bun this year was…

Getting ready for Easter at Castleford House! 🐣 🌷 🍫 What a fab few days the residents and team have had getting ready for Easter! With a wide variety of arts and crafts activities, including Easter bonnet decorating and making decorations for the lounge, doesn’t it look fab?!

Congratulations to Castleford’s very own Tom Bethell for securing a nursing position on the Acute Respiratory Ward. We have watched you grow into the talented person that you are today, after starting at Castleford at just 16 years of age. We are all so incredibly proud of you, Tom. You’re going to be an amazing…

We had a great time celebrating Valentine’s Day! We arranged a special event for everyone to enjoy, with live music from Donna Kennedy, a scone station and lots of bubbly in our romantically themed dining room! Everyone brought their best dance moves and it was beautiful to see people dancing, laughing and singing! We ended…

We celebrated pancake day with homemade chocolate and cream pancakes! Our finest chefs came together, with their spatulas ready, to cook some pancakes for everyone to try The pancakes have gone down a ‘sweet treat’ and were devoured by everyone! Sheila said: “well I must that, that was absolutely gorgeous!”