Residents at Hepworth House care home in Wakefield are calling for all knitters and crocheters to join them in creating a Remembrance Day poppy display. The home’s Knitwits club have already started handmaking red, purple and white poppies for the display, which will arch over the...
92-year-old Rita Hinchcliffe from Hepworth House care home has been sharing her abundant knowledge on bird breeding after spending time with the care home’s pet budgies. In 1965 Rita’s husband, Ronald, discovered a deep passion for breeding canaries. Rita soon fell in love with the taking...
Ashworth Grange care home in Dewsbury have raised £1,200 for national mental health charity, Mind, and Dewsbury Fire Station through their annual Summer Fayre. This year, the community joined residents in the care home for a beach-themed party, where staff members were dressed to the nines...
78-year-old Brian Wilding, a former Royal Engineers Sargeant and resident at Hepworth House care home in Wakefield, raised £100 for the Help for Heroes charity at the home’s Spring Fest Fair by selling his collectable Guinness memorabilia. Brian has been an avid supporter of Help for...
Staff from Lydgate Lodge care home paid a visit to students at Hilltop Primary Academy to tell them all about working in social care and answer their questions about what care homes are like. Kelly Dawson and Nicola Sutton, Front of House Managers at Lydgate Lodge,...
Residents at Greenacres care home in Meltham welcomed The Yorkshire Vet filming crew to their home when Dante the shire horse came for a visit. Dante’s first appearance at Greenacres was in October 2022 as a pony and he visited again the year after. Residents in...
Residents and staff members from Greenacres care home in Meltham raised £649 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance after the aircraft saved the life of one staff member’s son when he was involved in a car crash in 2023. To show their gratitude and support, Greenacres made...
Care Assistant Paula Foster from Hepworth House care home in Wakefield raised over £600 with her Leeds Half Marathon challenge for the Alzheimer’s Society, in honour of the residents she cares for in the home. Paula joined the Hepworth House team in January 2023. Having been...
Newfield Lodge care home in Castleford, operated by Ideal Carehomes, is celebrating their recent triumph at the annual Ideal Care Awards where they were crowned Home of the Year. The Ideal Care Awards seek to recognise the hard-work and dedication demonstrated by Ideal Carehomes’ team members...
Residents from Greenacres care home in Meltham were delighted to receive handwritten letters and personalised gift packs from Huddersfield-based charity volunteers at Give a Few Words. Founded in 2020, Give a Few Words encourages people to write letters to and share interests with those living in...