Activities at Mulberry Court Care Home

Residents and staff welcomed local volunteer, Tony Kisby from RAF Museum Snaith to host an informative talk on the RAF's involvement in the Falkland conflict.

RAF Snaith Museum is located at the former WAAF Site Number 1 in Pollington. It has been created by a group of volunteers as a place to remember and celebrate the lives of the men and women of 150 Squadron, 51 Squadron and the Women’s Land Army, who all served there between 1941 and 1949. Residents and their guests were honoured to welcome volunteer, Tony, to the home to host his talk, before opening the floor to a Q&A session.
 

Staff and residents celebrated Easter with a whole host of different activities, including a special Christian service led by Linda, followed by an Easter egg hunt around the home's award-winning garden, taking advantage of the early Spring sunshine and live entertainment from popular vocalist, John Kellow.

Residents at Mulberry Court enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from making Easter cards, decorations and bunting.  Residents also tucked in to a delicious Easter meal of roast lamb with all the trimmings freshly prepared by our chef Ian, Kath and the kitchen team.
 

Today at Mulberry Court we were joined by our male resident ambassador's daughter Joan, who very kindly gave up her time to help residents create some Easter decorations. 

Everyone had a wonderful afternoon deciding which materials to use and how to design their individual letter to go onto the banner. The finished result now has pride of place in our café bar area!

Residents came together this afternoon to do some flower arranging with a varied range of mixed seasonal blooms as well as foliage from our very own award-winning gardens, freshly cut that morning by our gardener Chris.

We all had a wonderful afternoon of creativity and I think you will agree the finished results look stunning.

Residents and staff at Mulberry Court in Rawcliffe, York, celebrated all things Irish for St Patrick’s Day this week. The home was decorated with shamrocks and everyone dressed in green to mark the day.

Held on March 17th, Saint Patrick's Day actually observes the death of St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, but the day has come to be a huge celebration of Irish heritage and culture.

Staff and residents at the home marked the day by gathering together in the evening for a special performance by local vocal artist Jim McCrory, who sang a mix of traditional and modern Irish tunes for us all. Residents, their families and friends as well as staff gathered to enjoy the evening over a Guinness.  

General Manager, Rachael Moss, said: “Our residents have all had a brilliant day today. Everyone has enjoyed the festivities – I think we all agree St Patrick’s Day is the best of all the saint’s days! We had a fantastic time listening to Irish music."

Mulberry Court brings together the local community for an event. The home hosted a variety of activities throughout the day, including live entertainment by popular vocalist, Nikki Humberstone who performed a medley of toe-tapping songs which were enjoyed by everyone who came to the event. Guests were also able to browse a selection of pop-up stalls hosted by local businesses to purchase those special Mother’s Day gifts.

Staff made everyone feel welcome and were delighted to see different generations having fun together. Visitors enjoyed plenty of refreshments and delicious home-made cakes and biscuits prepared by the home’s hospitality team, who were hard at work making sure that a great time was had by all – it really was a team effort!