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2022 May highlights from our care homes and services

Posted on 14 June 2022

Across our care homes and services, residents had a wonderful time enjoying a mixture of fun activities and celebrations last month. Here are our May highlights: Malvern Day Care centre hosts its own Italian Job Mercia Minis Car Club recently descended on our Malvern Day Care Centre in a group of classic, pristine Minis, much…

Encouraging our teams to ‘Unmind’ with new mental health platform

Posted on 27 May 2022

At Friends of the Elderly, we have continued to build on our commitment to our teams by expanding upon our Wellbeing Pledge and introducing a new online workplace mental health platform. Through engaging with the Unmind platform, we are empowering all of our employees to proactively measure, understand and improve their mental wellbeing and see,…

Betty’s Birthday Celebrations at Bernard Sunley care home

Posted on 19 May 2022

At Bernard Sunley care home, the team pulled out all the musical stops to celebrate resident Betty Bunce’s 91st Birthday. Betty and her care home friends enjoyed a delicious birthday tea and scrumptious birthday cake. This was followed by a surprise performance by Daniel Brewerton, Betty’s favourite singer. However, the surprises kept coming and Betty’s…

2022 April highlights from our care homes

Posted on 9 May 2022

Across our care homes and services, residents had a wonderful time enjoying a mixture of fun activities and celebrations last month. Here are our April highlights: Our Essex care home helps Barbara celebrate landmark 101st birthday At New Copford Place care home in Colchester, Essex, the care team has been celebrating Barbara Purves’ milestone 101st Birthday. Cheeky…

Malvern Day Care centre hosts its own Italian Job

Posted on 6 May 2022

Back in March 2019, the Mercia Minis Car Club first visited our Malvern Day Care centre. They arrived to celebrate and announce that our day care centre was the Malvern car club’s chosen charity for the year, a support that would run until March 2020. However, before they could return, the COVID pandemic struck. Fast…