Residents from out Ryton Towers home had a lovely day at Willows Montessori Nursery on their graduation day today, as they said goodbye to our little buddies that we have all enjoyed working with in our home. We gave them some little medals that we had made for them which they were delighted with .We wish them all the very best in their new schools in September.
We’ve welcomed 2 very special new residents at our Glenholme House Home, our lovely bunnies, Lucy and Thumper. Our residents are loving giving them a cuddle and are delighted with their 2 new guests!
Today we say ‘farewell’ to our beloved lifestyle coordinator Janice Spark. Janice started her employment at Nightingale Hall 19 years ago, spent 13 years as a cook and then the last six years providing a stimulating activities programme for the residents of Nightingale Hall. We wish her a long and happy retirement, she will be sorely missed by residents and staff. When asked what the highlight of working at Nightingale Hall was she replied ‘making the residents happy’ .
Today staff at our Garden House home helped another of our residents to achieve one of their goals. Joan was born in Amble and had lived there most of her life, and told us she would love to go back to Amble one more time. We therefore arranged a trip there for the day, which brought back lots of good memories for Joan, we even drive past Joan's old house and the church Joan was baptized and married! A lovely day!
This year, Sheila who lives at our St George’s Home, has made it her mission to raise as much money as possible for Parkinson’s UK. Each month, the home have been hosting a wide range of fundraising events, so today, our staff and residents got involved in a sponsored car wash! A great way to raise money whilst having an absolutely hilarious time!
We'd like to say a huge well done to our team at Rosevale Care Home who raised over £1000 for York Tourette Support Group at their family fun day this year! The charity is close to our hearts so we would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along to support us and to our staff for all of their hard work!
Our Glenholme House Care Home run a regular gentlemen's club, which always goes down a treat with our gents. Great to see everyone working together to plant basil, coriander, garlic chives, dill and radishes, whilst also enjoying a well-deserved beer!
Over the past 2 years, our Ryton Towers home have developed a fantastic relationship with local nursery, The Willows Montessori. Our residents always look forward to the children visiting, and so decided to throw them a special party for the children graduating this summer. It was so lovely to see all the children before they move into primary school in September!
Marion, who lives at our Garden House Home, was always a member of the @nationaltrust, but the one place she had never been was @NTcragside, up until today- when we made it happen! We love person centered day trips like this!
We’re thrilled that we were the recipients of both awards which we were finalists in at this years #carehomeawards! The first for best architecture, interior design or communal space for The Pantry at our Ryton Towers Home, and the second for best marketing, PR or advertising for The Wellburn Post. A very proud moment for us all at Wellburn! Cheers!
We had an absolutely amazing time today at our Wellburn House’s annual summer BBQ. Thank you to everyone who came to support us, to all of our amazing staff who came along to help on their days off, and to Shirley Mac and Alfie Dobson for entertaining us all! All the money raised from today is going to Dementia UK- so once again, a huge thank you! We will hope to see you all again for another BBQ next summer!
Today, Maud was delighted to go on a surprise trip to Redcar to test out our new all terrain, beach ready wheelchair! It has been 2 decades since Maud enjoyed the beach in Portugal. We were able to go right up to the waters edge! Safe to say it's a huge success!
This month marks the 25th year that our Riverhead Hall Care Home Home Manager, Sallie Aitken, has worked for us here at Wellburn. Thank you for your unwavering loyalty and dedication to Wellburn and to Riverhead Hall!
It’s one of our favourite days of the year today, as we support the Alzheimer Society’s cupcake day! Audrey and Nora from our Riverhead Hall home, had a lovely morning supporting the day, by helping out at a community event, held at the Bell Hotel in Driffield. It was absolutely packed- wonderful to see our town supporting and bringing awareness to this charity!
Our Nightingale Hall Care Home Home Manager, Mike, has been having a sneaky go on our brand new beach easy and all terrain wheelchair this morning. Here at Wellburn, we constantly want to push the boundaries in regards to the trips that we offer our residents, and want to provide them with the opportunity to experience the great outdoors as much as possible!
The custom made wheelchair has very large rounded tyres, which helps it to glide across the sand and different terrains more easily, meaning it can get right up to the sea and in the shallow waters at the beach. This chair will be the first in the North East and we’re really looking forward to being able to enjoy the beach, and usually more difficult destinations, even more with our residents across our homes!
Last week was #NationalVolunteerWeek, so to mark the occasion, residents and staff from our Craghall Care Home helped collect donations at the Newcastle Theatre Royal for their chosen charity of the year, RVI Tiny Lives (Special Care Babies). They helped to raise a brilliant £233.39 for the charity. We're so proud of you all! Well done!
Today, we launched #workmatters at our Riverhead Hall Care Home, with David going wine tasting at Flourish and Prosper. David started working for the prestigious Justerini & Brooks of St James Street in London, in 1968, until he retired in 1988. David was employed as their warehouse manager, and so his knowledge of wine was, and still is, very extensive. David loved his job and has very fond memories of working here, and so a work matters visit to Flourish & Prosper, was perfect.
Shaun, the owner of the store, was fantastic and has a mine of knowledge, making David's visit even more brilliant! Thank you to everyone at the store for their warm welcome and for helping us in arranging this placement for David
We love being able to give back to our local communities, and so residents from our Nightingale Hall home were thrilled to visit the Dog Trust Centre in Darlington today, to present them with a cheque from our Easter raffle proceeds. A lovely day for a fantastic cause.
Today, our lifestyle coordinator at our Wellburn House home, took our lovely Kathleen to their community high school for their summer party. We love to get involved in community events here at Wellburn, almost as much as our residents love going to them. We had a blast, thank you to Prudhoe Community High School for the invite!
To celebrate National BBQ day, our Grimston Court home decided to throw their Summer BBQ! They had a fantastic turn out and would like to thank everyone for their support. Here’s to many more BBQ’s over the coming months!