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Lifeline offered to older people who are lonely and living in poverty

Posted on 1 July 2024

With around one in five pensioners struggling with the burden of financial hardship and loneliness,[i] it is no wonder that our charitable grants programme is inundated with pleas for support. “Every day we receive grant applications from older people who are isolated, and often tell us they go for days without seeing – or even…

National Bingo Day celebrated at our Oxfordshire care home

Posted on 1 July 2024

At The Old Vicarage, our Wallingford-based residential and dementia care home, it’s eyes down for a ‘Full House’ for the residents as they celebrate this year’s National Bingo Day. “Since 2021, 27 June has been formally recognised as National Bingo Day in the UK,” said Carol Bourne, the Registered Manager at The Old Vicarage. “Our…

Little Bramingham Farm celebrates tea room’s first birthday

Posted on 27 June 2024

On the 18th June Little Bramingham Farm, our Luton-based residential care home, invited residents, their families and the community to celebrate the first birthday of the care home’s beautiful ‘Susie’s Tea Room’. When the Tea Room reopened in 2023, it was renamed ‘Susie’s Tea Room’ in memory and honour of the care home’s late Chef…

The Old Vicarage care home launches Blue Light Breakfast.
Blue Light Breakfast Club launched at our Oxfordshire care home

Posted on 14 June 2024

A Blue Light Breakfast Club has been launched at The Old Vicarage, our Wallingford-based residential and dementia care home. The Club – which started on Monday 20 May – will be open five days a week, Monday to Friday from 8am to 10am, offering a wide selection of tasty breakfast rolls, pastries and warm beverages…

D-Day honoured as Malvern residents and clients transport to 1944

Posted on 12 June 2024

The care team at Malvern-based Davenham, Perrins House and Bradbury Court, our residential, nursing and dementia care homes which are collectively known as Friends of the Elderly Malvern, and Malvern Day Care Service, transported residents and clients back to June 1944 to honour D-Day’s 80th Anniversary. The D-Day landings on 6th June 1944 marked the…