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Posted on 12 June 2026

At Redcot, our Haslemere residential care home, resident Joyce Douglas, who made the care home her home in February 2022, has been enjoying her milestone 101st birthday surrounded by her family, care home friends, balloons, cards, gifts and the care home team. Joyce was born at home at 4.45pm, 20 minutes before her identical twin…

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Reading care home hosting FREE community open week

Posted on 11 June 2026

The care team and residents at Friends Place, are looking forward to welcoming their families, friends, visitors and members of the local Calcot and Reading community to join them in a fun, fully inclusive, accessible and interactive week of exciting and engaging activities – and the chance to take a tour of the fantastic care…

Friends of the Elderly proud to be part of Centenary project

Posted on 11 June 2026

Friends of the Elderly, has been selected to appear in a new publication entitled Monarchy and Democracy: A History of Leadership. An official History of Parliament project. This landmark book, produced in partnership with leading publisher St James’s House – an imprint within the SJH Group – and was launched on 9th June in the…

Bernard Sunley committed to keeping residents part of, and out and about in, the local community

Posted on 11 June 2026

Bernard Sunley, our Woking-based residential, nursing and dementia care home, is pleased and proud to announce that it has become the first sponsor of Woking’s new Buddy Bus, a community transport bus which is available for use by voluntary sector organisations in the local area, to help bring the community together. “We have an ongoing…

Residents at The Lawn Care Home celebrate this year’s National Walking Month

Posted on 9 June 2026

To celebrate this year’s National Walking Month, residents at The Lawn, our Alton-based residential care home, have had a ‘Toe-tally’ great time walking and strolling around the care home’s beautiful grounds to reach their 1,000 steps goal. “The residents thoroughly enjoy all our exercise classes so, for this year’s National Walking Month, we wanted to…