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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…

2025 April highlights from our care homes and services

Posted on 12 May 2025

Across our care homes and services, residents had a wonderful time enjoying a mixture of fun activities and celebrations last month. Here are our 2025 April highlights: Generations brought together at Luton care home At Little Bramingham Farm, our Luton-based residential care home, the residents and care team have been having a wonderful time celebrating…

Older Man and Woman Sitting on a couch smiling.
Winter Appeal raises £18,778 to support vulnerable older people

Posted on 2 May 2025

Thanks to the kindness and generosity of our donors, our Winter Appeal has raised an amazing £18,778 to help support our Grants Programme, a service which is totally focused on helping and supporting vulnerable, older people living throughout England and Wales who are State Pension age and living on low incomes. “The winter months are…