Activities at Cadbury Hall Care Home

Dr Liam Fox, MP visited Barchester’s Cadbury Hall to view the recently reopened and refurbished home and met Dr Pete Calveley, CEO of Barchester Healthcare.

Dr Fox joined residents and staff of the home for lunch and a tour.

Also present on Thursday were Barchester Managing Director Angela Bradford, Regional Director Isabela Andriuca and host new General Manager Helen Collings with her care team.

Dr Fox spoke with Barchester staff including Dr Calveley during the tour before meeting residents, including Donald, 97, who used to live close by to Dr Fox and was excited to meet Dr Fox again after many years.

We were delighted to welcome owners and families as well as 21 dogs to the Cadbury Hall dog show yesterday afternoon with all charity proceeds being raised for Holly Hedge Rescue Centre 10 categories but the dog that the Judges wanted to most take home was Flander, a rescue collie cross aged 5.

The last prize was very kindly donated by Pets Pantry in Clevedon and presented by Helen, Cadbury Hall’s General Manager to Chris, Flander’s owner. Our special thanks also goes to Bryony, Becky and Rose from Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary for doing such a great job with judging, while Richard, the Home Services Advisor at Cadbury Hall was delighted to hand over the proceeds of the day along with donations from the home and raffle to the team at Holly Hedge totalling some £140.00.

The Holly Hedge team are going to return to the home to give a talk to residents soon while the residents greatly enjoyed watching today’s show.

Once more our ever popular Knit and Natter was eagerly awaited on Friday and as ever was therefore popular with our own residents as much as with our locals in Yatton all of whom were very welcome through our doors. Today was different though, as for the first time they were served by Ciara, as pictured, with freshly made tea who was eager to enjoy some useful work experience. Well, she has instantly become a firm favourite with everyone here and we are delighted to announce that she has accepted our invitation to continue to join us Friday’s going forward within our hospitality team. “Well done Ciara”.

Cadbury hall was treated to another chance to welcome Annabel, a Yr10 Art student back to visit and host a second art session by popular demand with local residents, staff and a young man who was on his half term. The watercolour paints and paintbrushes were out in force and by the end of the session everyone seemed very pleased with their paintings too.

We were delighted to be invited to visit Yatton Bowling Club yesterday for a fun introduction to the sport. The club welcomes all age groups and we were given such a friendly welcome. Residents and staff were kindly given some much appreciated private tuition by the Club Captain Trevor and another experienced club member, also called Trevor as we began to learn how we should release the bowls as well as to judge how fast to bowl onto what is a beautifully kept green. We would really recommend giving bowls a try. The afternoon was finished off in real style with a wonderful cream tea and it was so good of Alison, Elaine and Nicky to organise everything including tea and coffee for us to come along. We certainly plan to return!

We were excited to set off for the The Flight Lounge at Bristol Airport today for morning coffee, Victoria sponge cake and as it turned out a number of deluxe hot chocolates too as you can see. Our resident Family Ambassadors, Philip and Jacqui kindly suggested the trip where we were able to see a number of aircraft on the move and enjoy the welcoming atmosphere of the restaurant. It was also interesting to learn about the clever layout of the runway, allowing efficient taxiing or take-off using the same two runways whatever the wind direction. I am sure we will be returning soon!