Activities at Mulberry Court Care Home

Staff and residents held a charity coffee morning and bake sale on Friday 26th September to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.  Having a morning coffee is the perfect chance to catch up over a cuppa and a slice of something delicious for a great cause. The money raised helps everyone with cancer to live life as fully as they can.

Residents enjoyed spending time with friends and relatives, and members of the local community.  Head chef, Mark, and his team had baked lots of lovely cakes, biscuits and pastries for everyone to sample.

Mulberry Court’s coffee morning was a big success - they managed to raise the fantastic amount of one hundred and twenty ponds and, most importantly, everyone had a great time doing it! Margaret also won our competition “find the coffee bean”. Here she is being presented with her prize by manager Rachael.
 

Ken Cooke, a WW2 veteran, had visited Barchester’s Mulberry Court in Rawcliffe, York, as he is an old friend of the house, so they invited him for a special birthday lunch as Ken had recently reached his 100th birthday.

Ken Cooke joined the residents of the home for lunch, which was especially prepared by Ian. At Ken’s request, a sponge pudding and custard were on the menu. He then joined the resident for a special reminiscing session where he talked about his memories of the D-Day landings. He then answered a wide and varied range of questions which included which actor would you like to play you in a film about your life and who you have yet to meet but would like to, to which Ken replied: someone good-looking like George Clooney and HRH The Princess Royal.
 

A group of our Mulberry Court Care Home - Barchester Healthcare residents have been out and about again today in the mini bus, this time visiting the Yorkshire lavender fields, which gives a spectacular view over the vale of York.

Miriam's son who is over visiting from New Zealand joined the trip, and was able to enjoy the day with his mum.

Those that went enjoyed the trip although it was windy at times! We are looking forward to more trips in the coming weeks. 

We started the day here recognising all of our gentlemen, presenting each with a special Father's Day gift on behalf of us all here at Mulberry Court.

Then it was time to be entertained by popular vocalist, Nikki Humberstone, with a medley of hits including 'the locomotion'.

I'm the 'King of the swingers' from the Jungle Book and many more to our full lounge! We hope all of our gents have enjoyed their day.

Some of our wonderful residents here at Mulberry Court went out in our new mini-bus today to Dean's garden centre. They all enjoyed being out and being able to see over the hedges to fields full of lambs and crops.

Once there, we had a look around the many different gift areas before heading into their café where there was much deliberating before a final choice was made for lunch, which was absolutely delicious. Afterwards, we headed outside to look at the vast variety of plants on offer before making our way to the tills with our purchases.

We decided to do a mini-sightseeing tour on the way back and stopped off to admire the beautiful York minister, and watch the start of a horse race on the Knavesmire before finally returning. 

Residents were full of excitement as they visited Murton Park, which is also home to the Derwent Valley Light Railway, where resident Gerry used to volunteer. He really enjoyed seeing old friends and seeing how projects he himself had worked on had progressed.

Resident, John reminisced about spending time at a nearby farm in Huggate in his youth and even climbed aboard the display tractor, not bad for a gent who turns 99 next month! Thank you to Murton Park for making us so welcome and bringing back some fantastic memories.

Residents, their relatives and staff all got involved with the spirit of the history week, which started with a documentary followed by the crafting of Viking shields and swords by a guest speaker, John Shaw from York Archaeology department, and a trip to the Viking centre in York with a grand finale of visiting Vikings!

Mulberry Court has today celebrated a long service award, Jilly a member of our housekeeping team has been with us for10 years!

Huge congratulations and thank you Jilly for your hard work and dedication to all our residents. Jilly was presented with a certificate voucher and bouquet of flowers from our General Manager, Rachael and Deputy Manager, Joshy on behalf of everyone at Mulberry Court.

We wish you many more years with us Jilly!

A couple from Mulberry Court have celebrated seventy years of marriage. Norman and Anne met at a dance, and it was love at first sight!  Norman was a teacher, then became a headteacher while Ann raised their two sons, Michael and David, who took their mum and dad out for a special lunch on the day before returning to Mulberry court where everyone was waiting for them with a platinum celebration card and a homemade cake with personalised topper.

Family and friends came to Mulberry Court to celebrate the couple’s special anniversary with staff and residents. The home arranged for their favourite fruit cake to be made.
 

Celebrations have been in full swing at Mulberry Court as one of its residents reaches her 101st birthday in style.  Lilian was joined by staff, relatives, friends and other residents as she received many warm wishes, gifts and flowers as well as cards in recognition of her landmark 101st birthday. A champagne reception was held at the home and guests enjoyed a special birthday cake made by a local company called “bears cakes and Bakes”.

Before moving to Mulberry Court, Lilian spent many years living and working out in Spain where her daughter still lives. While there she made many friends, some of whom joined her for her special celebration.

The birthday girl said “I cannot believe I have reached such a great age, it’s credit to everyone who looks after me here at Mulberry Court”.
 

Here at Mulberry Court we are always looking for new destinations to visit, so when Thirsk garden centre was recommended we thought we'd have a run out, we were not disappointed!

Our lovely ladies really enjoyed looking at the Halloween and Autumn displays as well as the Christmas ones, with Mike from activities and resident Miriam even buying Christmas hats!!! We all enjoyed a delicious meal including "the best lemon drizzle cake" ever tasted in one of our residents opinion.

Thankfully we managed to avoid all the downpours and thunderstorms and arrived back at mulberry court in time for another cup of tea before our evening meals. 

Thank you Thirsk garden centre we will definitely be back.

Today, our residents visited York city centre, from making friends with Paddington Bear to soaking up the culture within the city, first making their way through the busy streets to continue our Vikings-themed adventures with a trip to the world-famous Viking Centre, where we were all treated like VIPs and given lots of information about all the fascinating finds they unearthed when developing the Copper gate shopping area as it is now known, while the other pairing enjoyed the beautiful York minster followed by lunch at St. Sampsons.

Thank you to all the local guides for your expertise and knowledge, for looking after us so well and making us a real Yorkshire welcome!            

A housekeeping Assistant at Mulberry Court in Rawcliffe, York has received a prestigious 10-Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for ten years. 

Jilly now a member of the housekeeping team started at Barchester in June 2015 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years. 

Residents enjoyed more than one trip this week – the first trip was to Beningborough Hall where we enjoyed looking around the newly installed Mediterranean gardens and admiring all the beautiful plants before heading into the café for a delicious lunch.

Next up was a quick trip to nearby Skelton Garden Centre, a popular destination with our residents.  After browsing the vast selection of plants and gifts, it was time for a refreshing pit stop in their café before heading home, timing well to coincide to the delight of Mike and David the second half of the football!
 

Wow, what a truly magnificent afternoon we had here at Mulberry Court care home as we celebrate 80 years since VE Day.

A completely packed lounge of residents, their families and friends enjoyed music from the era provided by Tony & Patsy, whilst those who were unable to join the group were gifted with an ice cream from "Swirlz" of Pocklington with the help of local army cadets from St. Peters' school.

Once the music had stopped in the lounge, everyone then moved to our "street party" and enjoyed chatting with the cadets while eating their ice-creams. Thank you to everyone who helped and attended and made many new marvellous memories.