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Posted on 15 November 2024

Something spooky was brewing at Little Bramingham Farm, our Luton-based residential care home, as the care team and residents welcomed over 180 members of the local community to enjoy and share in the frighteningly good fun at their ‘errie-isitable’ Halloween party. “Our Halloween community party was ‘fang-tastic’, even Count Dracula himself would have been a…

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Redcot’s Ann Essam wins prestigious Surrey Care Award

Posted on 14 November 2024

At Redcot, our Haslemere-based residential care home, residents and the care team have been celebrating with Ann Essam, one of the care home’s Activities Coordinators, who has just won the coveted ‘Unsung Hero – Making Care Possible’ Award at this year’s Surrey Care Awards. Ann, who joined Friends of the Elderly in 2001, after she…

Colchester care home’s scarecrow wins two community awards

Posted on 13 November 2024

At New Copford Place, our Colchester-based residential care home, the residents and care team have been celebrating their win at this year’s Copford and Easthorpe Scarecrow Festival. The care team – with creative input from the residents – designed and brought to life ‘Marilyn’, New Copford Place’s very own scarecrow. “We chatted about the Scarecrow…

Two of our Day Care Managers finalists at Surrey Care Awards

Posted on 6 November 2024

Clients at our day care services in Wallington and Woking have been celebrating with Fran Simpson, the Manager at Woking Day Care service and Nicola Davies, the Manager at Wallington Day Care service, as they have both been announced as Finalists in this year’s Surrey Care Awards in The Care Worker of the Year –…

Ann makes double finalist at this year’s Surrey Care Awards

Posted on 5 November 2024

At Redcot, our Haslemere-based residential care home, residents and the care team have been toasting Ann Essam, one of the home’s Activities Coordinators, who has been announced as a Finalist in this year’s Surrey Care Awards. Ann, who is already a Finalist in The Care Activities Co-ordinator/Facilitator of the Year category, at the National Care…