Activities at Hickathrift House Care Home

Staff and residents at Hickathrift celebrated Easter with lots of Easter crafts. Everyone enjoyed the eggs-tensive range of Easter activities!

On Wednesday the 23rd March the Student Cross took a break from their pilgrimage to Walsingham and popped in to see us. They enjoyed some well deserved hot cross buns and some refreshments. We were lucky enough to get our hot cross buns donated by Tesco. Mallissa Russell, The Community Champion for the Wisbech Store delivered them personally and stayed to help us get everything ready, she also took the time to draw our Easter Raffle. A massive thank you to Mallissa and everyone at Tesco in Wisbech.
Student Cross is a pilgrimage organised by and for students, young adults, and pilgrims of all ages, which has been running since 1948. Pilgrims experience Holy Week and the joy of the Resurrection as a living reality. It's a chance to celebrate Easter in a unique way. Eleven different groups, known as Legs, walk from different parts of the country across Norfolk to Walsingham. Kind-hearted parishes provide food and accommodation along the way. Each Leg carries a large wooden cross as a witness to the people they pass. To find out more about the different routes, please visit the Legs pages. The climax of the week is in Walsingham, a centre of pilgrimage for many centuries. This is where all the Legs meet up to celebrate the Easter liturgies together over the Easter weekend, including a vibrant Paschal Party after the Easter vigil on Saturday evening.

The Care Awards celebrate excellence in the quality of care we provide by recognizing those individuals who go the extra mile to make a difference to the lives of those we support.

The awards categories this year are:

• Activities Coordinator of the Year

• Apprentice / Learner of the Year

• Barchester’s Charitable Foundation Champion

• Carer / Support Worker of the Year

• Home Administration Champion

• Home Trainer of the Year

• Hospitality Champion

• Maintenance Champion

• Memory Lane Champion

• Registered Nurse of the Year

• Volunteer of the Year

• Chef of the Year

Nominations are now open and can be placed via the Barchester website. Hard copies of the nomination form will available from Hickathrift House so that families, friends and volunteers have the chance to nominate as well.

So if you know a staff member at the home that you feel deserves recognition, please place your nomination now!

The closing date for entries is 29th April. We look forward to receiving your nominations.

The residents at Hickathrift House are celebrating having won the annual Barchester Christmas cake competition with their amazing culinary creation, which wowed judges with its display of skill and originality. The cake secured first place in the residents entry category of the competition, which was open to entries from all Barchester care homes throughout the Eastern division.

After many discussions over many cups of tea and lots of biscuits the residents decided that they would create and decorate their entry as an igloo, complete with penguins, a snowman and an icy pond.

Sue Scarlett, General Manager at Hickathrift House said: “I’m thrilled for everyone at Hickathrift House who helped make the Christmas cake. Creating it was a real team effort and a lot of fun was had in its creation – it tasted great too!”

Thelma Palmer, age 82, said: “Smashing!!! It’s wonderful that we won” and Rose Humphreys, age 90, said “That is a lovely surprise that we won. It was worth all of the effort”