2025 April 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 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 this year’s Global Intergenerational Week with their fun, interactive and engaging fortnightly, term-time, activity for their residents –intergenerational Musical Bumps.

Read how the sessions have made a difference here.

Thank you for making a meaningful difference to older people this winter

Thanks to our kind supporters, we have raised £18,777 through our Winter Appeal.

This winter, 352 people received the support they so desperately needed, with grants for warm clothes, beds and bedding, heating costs, carpets and much more.

One couple in their seventies who received a grant for £500 told us:

“The grant was a godsend, we felt so overwhelmed when we received it, I started crying. It has without a doubt eased our stress and anxiety. We felt relieved and didn’t have to worry about food”

Top tea decided by Essex care home residents

To celebrate the quintessential, classic British tradition of a ‘good cup of tea’ and to mark this year’s National Tea Day, at New Copford Place, our Colchester-based residential care home, residents have taken part in a poll and voted for their favourite cuppa.

Find out which tea won the vote here.

Malvern residents welcome adorable new Easter friends

At Friends of the Elderly Malvern, residents welcomed some very special new friends. From eggs to adorable little chicks – residents were part of the entire journey and are besotted with their new family members

Read more about our Malvern care homes here.

Resident sisters celebrate National Siblings Day

To celebrate this year’s National Siblings Day, at New Copford Place, our Colchester-based residential care home, resident sisters Joy Haynard and Sylvia Edwards – have been reminiscing about their childhoods, their close sisterly bond and their lives together.

Read more about their heartfelt memories here.

Maria is swimming to support older people in need

“Through this swim, I want to honour my mother’s memory by helping to ensure others have the support and dignity they deserve. I’m proud to be supporting your essential work, making sure no older person has to face poverty or loneliness alone.”

Next month, Maria will be swimming 25k to fundraise for Friends of the Elderly. If you would like to donate, please see her fundraising page here.

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