Activities at Iris Court Care Home

Iris Court had the pleasure of welcoming in St Ippolyts Church in to perform their latest Christmas service.

The Service was lovely to be held in our home allowing our residents to join in with readings at the service as they would of before life at Iris court when attending a church service. 

The choir sung some of our favourite Carols, and finished the service with a wonderful blessing, before spending time talking to our residents and enjoying some delicious mince pies and hot chocolates, allowing us to make new friends within the community and arrange for the wider community to come into Iris Court such as a new bridge club for our residents who enjoying playing and making new friends!

At Iris Court we love hosting events that we can open up to our relatives, friends and the wider community. Life at Iris Court is about being part of the local community and enjoying life long hobbies whilst also exploring new experiences.

Iris Court had a wonderful evening, watching a performance by the Hitchin Thespians, as Christmas is now just around the corner it left us feeling wonderfully festive!.

The performance was superb involving songs of Christmas carols and stories leaving all our residents and visitors of the evening captivated! after the performance the Hitchin Thespians joined us for the evening enjoying prosecco, and some of our favourite festive foods to enjoy!.

We cannot thank you the Hitchin Thespians enough for there time and performance for us to countdown into Christmas and cant wait to welcome them back next year for another performance!.

 At Iris Court Hosting events for friends and family members to join us is an essential part of our activities program and we are always looking for new ideas to bring the wider community into our home.

 Iris Court have been working alongside local charity, People for People with all donations going to the Food Shed, kind-hearted residents, families and staff from Iris Court Care Home had help to coordinate a Reverse Advent Calendar, a collection of food items, toys, decorations and toiletries to donate to the local food bank for members of the community who are struggling this Christmas.  The idea behind the Reverse Advent Calendar is that the collection focuses on different types of products each day so that all the essentials’ people might need are covered.

At the end of the reverse advent calendar we proudly took our donations to The Food Shed in Stevenage which work tirelessly throughout the year, but even more so during December to ensure all donations are given out to those who need in time for Christmas. 

Staff at Iris Court have said "Everyone at Iris Court is very much aware that lots of people are finding it difficult to feed themselves and their families this year and we all wanted to help in whatever way we can. We wanted to collect as much food and other useful products as possible to help those less fortunate than ourselves so it’s wonderful to see how amazingly generous everyone has been” 

A Huge thank you to all those who donated for The Food Shed and we cant wait to support again next year with anything we can help with.

Iris Courts Christmas Countdown Continues!, We had the pleasure of welcoming in St Ippolyts CE primary school in to us to perform their Christmas Choir. 

It was a wonderful morning having 39 of the students in with us ranging from 7-11 years to perform there Christmas choir with us, and then spending some time with us after enjoying hot chocolates with marshmallows, candy canes and Christmas treats. We are aware at Iris Court of the benefit of intergenerational activity is hugely beneficial to all. We had a fantastic time talking to the children after there performance after they spent time getting to know our residents and hearing there stories of how they used to perform at school with one memory even being off performing at The Royal Albert Hall as a child, whilst helping to boost confidence and for the younger children of developing higher levels of empathy and care. 

Everyone at Iris Court cannot wait to to have the St Ippolyts CE primary school return again next year to spend some time with us!

Iris Court had the pleasure of watching the Aston Bell Ringers perform for us as part of our countdown to Christmas. 

Another evening spent with residents, families and friends coming together to enjoy the evening with mulled wine, home baked Gingerbread biscuits and mince pies. The evening was fantastically interactive with our guests being invited up to help the bell ringers perform and learn some different routines, whilst learning some interesting facts regarding the history of bell ringing , and how this begun!.

At Iris Court Care home we love hosting events that we can open up to our relatives, friends and the wider community. Life at Iris Court is about being part of the local community and enjoying life long hobbies whilst also exploring new experiences.

Iris Court Kick started their Christmas Celebrations this weekend with their Christmas Soiree!.

Residents, staff welcomed all family and community in for the day, to join us browse our Christmas Market with stalls selling handmade goods, Our friendly Community PCSO'S from Hitchin Police station providing information on how the elderly community can stay safe at home. Once any shopping was done we truly got into the Christmas Spirit indulging in Cocktails, Baileys Hot Chocolates and a indulgent lunch of Canapes, Vol-au-vents and some festive favourites whilst enjoying live entertainment taking requests from us for our favourite Christmas songs!.

Being able to invite our local community into Iris Court, along with friends and family are a regular part of life at Iris Court to ensure our residents enjoy these special moments surrounded by their loved ones.