Activities at Adlington Manor Care Home

We are thrilled that 3 of our nurses have been successful in reaching the Regional finals of the Great British Care awards:

Mirela Sanda – Deputy Manager
Adrian Stoian - Senior Nurse 
Honey Joy Raquel – Registered Nurse

The prestigious Great British Care Awards aim to promote and recognise high standards in quality of care and life experience for people and their carers. The awards ceremony will be held at Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel, Manchester on 8th November 2025.     

Alfie, our fabulous head chef, has baked cupcakes and carrot cake to support Macmillan Coffee Morning In Poynton. 

Every penny raised will help support people living with cancer and their families. We look forward to seeing the end total.

Our lovely residents enjoyed watching the Lionesses winning the Euros. There was lots of encouragement and a lot of excitement during the penalty shot out and such excitement when we won! 

As part of our commitment to the environment, we have up cycled a number of old bikes for decoration around our lovely gardens - the cycles were decorated and painted by our residents and staff to add colour and talking points.  

Our courtyard looks amazing with the scent of flowers in the air and the sun shining down.

VE day dawned with an air of expectation in our home. We were up at a moderately early time as our residents knew that we were going to have a lunchtime party. We spent the morning watching the celebration hoping that the sun would come out, but sadly, it was not warm enough to have our little street party outside. 

The dining room was set up and an amazing buffet lunch was enjoyed by all; nostalgic songs from an era long past that inspired singing along too! Complements to the chef for providing a wonderful spread. We spent the afternoon and evening watching the celebration and retired to bed with a sense of an amazing day which staff, residentd and relatives all enjoyed.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped raise over £1000 for Barchester Charitable Foundation. Cliffe. Alfie and Maria for the half-marathon that they undertook before a full day's work, Adrian for his sponsored silence, Adriana gain for emptying his piggy band and everyone else who contributed – the funds will support people in the local communities. 

WE are proud to be Divisional winners of the Barchester Care awards in this category and wish all winners in all the categories good luck at the National Awards.  

Please can this go on webpage – Saturday afternoon, and it is the Manchester Derby (football for those of us who think horse racing!) . But the ladies do not want this on the telly.

Thankfully, we have our wonderful rainbow table, and we were able to use this to watch the match – a glass of beer, crisps and friends on a huge screen and whichever team was supported, it was a great match which was thoroughly enjoyed.  

Adrian Stoian  at  Adlington Manor Care Home  has been crowned Registered Nurse of the Year for the North West and Midlands  Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2025 and is through to the national round of judging.

The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,500 residents living in Barchester’s 267 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.

We are so proud of Adrian , huge achievement and  we wish him well in the final round of judging and the winner will be announced at Celebration of all our  wonderful staff at The Barchester Care Awards in October. 

Monday19th of May was world baking day. 

We decided that we would love pizza for tea, so with the help of Alfie, our lovely Chef and Nurse Ruth, the pizza was duly delivered to everyone for tea and we thoroughly enjoyed it.   

Eater Just would be the same without a lovely chocolate Easter egg.

The Easter bunny delivered eggs to all our residents, which made everyone smile and talk about memories of childhood. There was a lot of chocolate eating throughout the day!

As the days and nights begin to draw in, memories of those long hot summer days when we were able to go to the beach, build sand castles, go crabbing in the pools and fishing at the end of the pier are a distant memory. 

We have upcycled another bike to remind us in the dark days of winter of the warm halcyon days.   

Fifi Cocktail bar and restaurant was open for a 1-day only outside dining extravaganza. We had an array of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails prepared by our very own mixologist, Fiona Gough, General Manger. The Passion Fruit martini and Raspberry mojito were particularly popular, with a bit of the past chilled dandelion and burdock.

Chefs Alfie and Mike prepared a beautiful array of tropical menus, which, given the temperature – around 33 degrees, was very well-received. A cooling paddling pool was available for soaking feet, and was a fabulous way to cool down. In the heat of the day, we returned inside for cooling ice lollies and drinks.   

Mia Killeen has celebrated 10 years of Long Service – Mia is a senior carer who helps and supports our wonderful residents living with Dementia.

We would like to thank her for her love care and commitment and hope that  she achieve many more long service awards.

Counsellor Jon Weston, Mayor Bollington and Poynton village PCSO can for tea following the refurbishment of our Dementia unit. 

They chatted with our lovely residents who enjoyed meeting new faces and were enthralled by the Mayor’s chain of office. Pictured with our amazing team of nurses and Fiona General Manger. 

Amanda Taylor  has been nominated by a number of people as Employee of the Month. 

One lovely compliment from Tell Barchester has commented that she should be the poster girl for our home – she demonstrates all the values that we at Barchester treasure . 

It is also National Elf day and we would encourage you to donate the Alzheimer’s society to enable care and research into Dementia.