2024 July highlights from our care homes and services

Across our care homes and services, residents had a wonderful time enjoying a mixture of fun activities and celebrations last month. Here are our 2024 July highlights:

International Joke Day a hoot thanks to Alan’s cheeky jokes

At The Lawn, our Alton-based residential care home, residents have had a fun-filled and laughter-packed time enjoying International Joke Day, thanks to resident Alan and his cheeky sense of humour.

Read Alan’s favourite jokes here.

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“Often I couldn’t walk very far at all before the pain would start in my back and legs, and then I’d have difficulty breathing,” explains Grace. “It made it very hard to leave home, which was really isolating.”

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Work colleagues by chance, best friends by choice

For National Best Friends Day, our three Activity Coordinators at Malvern-based Davenham, Perrins House and Bradbury Court residential, nursing and dementia care homes, have been talking about how their friendship blossomed and grew thanks to working together.

Read more about their heartfelt friendship here.

Wallingford residents set the biscuit tin straight

At The Old Vicarage, our Wallingford-based residential and dementia care home, residents have spent a ‘cracking’ time celebrating this year’s National Biscuit Day, with a vote on their favourite biscuits.

Find out which biscuit won here.

The Scruffies 2024 a woofi-ful success in Alton

At our Hampshire-based residential care home, The Lawn, residents, their families, friends, members of the local community and care team had a ‘paw-fect’ day enjoying the home’s second dog show, The Scruffies.

Read about the popular pooch-fest here.

#FurryFriends launched to bring joy to residents

From care home pets to visiting therapy animals, our residents and clients LOVE their furry companions.

Over the summer we are asking you, our supporters, to send pictures of your adorable pets to comms@fote.org.uk so we can share them with our residents and clients, who will pick a winner each month.

We will share as many pictures as possible on our Facebook page, so keep an eye out and you may even see your own special friend!

Find out more about our #FurryFriends campaign here.

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