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Libb and New Copford Place care home resident Pat dance together.
Toes tap as Essex residents celebrate International Dance Day

Posted on 20 May 2025

At New Copford Place, our Colchester-based residential care home, residents have put on their dancing shoes to celebrate this year’s International Dance Day. “The annual International Dance Day is a global celebration of the art of dance,” said Chelsey Leather, the Activities Coordinator at New Copford Place. “The residents love our regular Musical Moments™ sessions with Libby…

Marion on her birthday holding an 80th balloon.
Marion enjoys a special 80th birthday celebration

Posted on 19 May 2025

At Little Bramingham Farm, our Luton-based residential care home, resident Marion MacDonald, has had a wonderful time celebrating her landmark 80th birthday, surrounded with balloons, flowers, cards and gifts with her family and care home friends. Marion has lived at Little Bramingham Farm since November 2024. “I decided to move to the care home as…

Access Volunteering Team and Friends of the Elderly staff with resident Margaret Hampshire
Volunteers from The Access Group UK spruce up care home’s garden furniture for summer

Posted on 16 May 2025

Team members from The Access Group UK, one of the leading providers of business management software, have spent a day volunteering at our Alton-based residential care home, The Lawn. Friends of the Elderly, which is celebrating its 120th Anniversary this year, welcomed 7 Access Group volunteers who wasted no time getting the care home’s garden furniture…

An old black and white photo of Jill when she was a nurse, sat with other nurses.
Luton resident reminisces about her rewarding career as a nurse

Posted on 14 May 2025

At Little Bramingham Farm, our Luton-based residential care home, 93-year-old resident, Jill Samuel, has been honouring this month’s National Nurses Day – and Florence Nightingale’s 205th Birthday – by reminiscing and sharing her own Nursing journey. Jill, who has been a resident at Little Bramingham Farm for 15 months, knew from an early age that…

Three residents toast cocktails at the Jazz Cafe
Jazz Café gets residents up and swinging at our Woking care home

Posted on 14 May 2025

At Bernard Sunley, our Woking-based residential, nursing and dementia care home, the care team hosted a ‘jazz-tastic’ Jazz Café event for the music loving residents to celebrate this year’s Jazz Appreciation Month. The event was a huge success – everyone’s Jazz Hands were waving and would have made Bob Fosse proud. “Many of the residents enjoy…