Activities at Mulberry Court Care Home

Here at Mulberry Court Care Home – Barchester Healthcare we have done our final activity of the year and hosted a "cheese and wine afternoon." It was so wonderful to see so many residents attending with their families and new friendships forming.

We have certainly had a busy year, from celebrating all the usual anniversaries/events such as Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, and Easter, to mention but a few, to marking the 80th anniversary of VE day, to our Viking invasion and, of course, ending the year with not one but two national television broadcasts as featured on BBC Ones "The one Show" and ITV's "This Morning". Here's to many more memories being made next year! 

Thank you everyone for your continued support to Chantana, Mike and I (Zoe) from activities, and I'm sure I speak for all our wonderful staff in wishing everyone a very happy and healthy new year.    

Wow, what a morning we had here at Mulberry Court Care Home – Barchester Healthcare as we welcomed ITVs "This Morning" into our home!

As local youngsters, George and Stanley, continued their twelve acts of kindness and the coverage continued to grow, This Morning's production team contacted our home and asked if they could film, so, of course, we said yes.

The section was presented by former Coronation Street star Colson Smith, who was lovely and spent time chatting to everyone.
Here are just a few pictures from today. Thank you to all our wonderful residents who appeared on camera...and those who were watching in the wings and on TVs throughout our home.      

Today at Mulberry Court we have had some very special young visitors. George and Stanley, as well as their mum Sophie and grandma Carol all come as part of the boys' "acts of kindness" through December.

They were inspired to do kind acts after seeing a TV programme, and decided to combine it with raising funds for the hospice their mum works for. So far they have raised over £500!!! 

They gave residents handmade cards and brought in some treats too, for everyone to share. Resident Jean, a keen knitter, was so inspired by the boys she donated a shawl/blanket she'd made to be passed onto someone at the hospice, proof that a little kindness goes a long way, and long make it continue.

We wish the boys continued success and hope your radio interview in the morning goes well, along with your other kind acts.

Here are a few pictures from this morning, with kind permission from the boy's mum, Sophie.

This afternoon at Mulberry court we started our Christmas preparations by making some centre pieces for our Christmas tables. 

Residents, families and friends as well as students from local school St. Peters all came together to get crafty, everyone had a lovely afternoon connecting and forming new friendships, as well as creating these lovely trees.     

Today John is 99 years young, he's still very active and enjoys regular walks as well as outings to his local church group.

Here he is with members of our team and with his handmade cake and specially ordered birthday card, we hope you have a wonderful day with your family and friends.

Remember if you'd like to use one of our lounges for your own celebration please ask at reception or a member of the activities team.   

Mulberry Court would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas... It has been so lovely to welcome so many family members and friends into our home to join our Christmas festivities.

Special mention to chef Ian and our kitchen team as everyone said how delicious their meals were. We finished off by coming together and listening to HM The king as he gave his annual address.         

Staff, residents, relatives and the local community came together to enjoy a wonderful Christmas Fete. In attendance was the Lord Mayor of York Martin Rowley BEM and his Sherriff. There were all kinds of stalls on offer manned by volunteers, friends and family and lots of local stall holders came along to sell their wares too from local honey to lovely craft items, handmade jewellery and cards etc, the list goes on!

The team at Mulberry court care home would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who either manned a stall, donated a raffle prize or who came along to support the home.  There was a fantastic atmosphere and in total the home raised over three hundred and fifty pounds which is brilliant.

Many new friendships were formed and discussion over shared hobbies and interests had all while enjoying a pint.

On the way back, one of our gents requested we went up the famous Sutton Bank... our minibus, expertly driven by Kev, made it and the views were good given the December day. Next we took in all the beauty of the Yorkshire moors on our extended trip back to Mulberry Court.

Once safely back, all our gents expressed how much they had enjoyed their outing.   

One of our nurses has received a prestigious Long Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for twenty years.

Ida Juliao, now a registered nurse, started at Barchester in 2005 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.

Rachael Moss, General Manager, said: “We’re delighted to be celebrating twenty years of loyal service to Ida. She has demonstrated her dedication and loyalty to this home and its residents year after year. I speak for all of us here at Mulberry Court when I say that I’m looking forward to many more years of working with Ida.
 

Today at Mulberry Court Care Home – Barchester Healthcare, we took a group of residents (and Margaret's daughter) out to enjoy a concert at nearby St. Chad's church in York. 

What a beautiful building, all our residents had a wonderful afternoon. It was so nice to be able to take residents who, by their own admission, don't travel well out into the local community.

St Chad's has more concerts coming up, so we hope these shorter trips will become a regular on our activities programme. 

Here at Mulberry Court Care Home - Barchester Healthcare we have said farewell to Christine our residents hairdresser who after many years with us is retiring. Christine certainly had a busy last day making sure our ladies and gents are all looking their absolute best for Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas Christine and a happy New year - enjoy your retirement, with best wishes and thanks for everything from all our residents.

Here she is being presented with a beautiful bouquet by Eileen our resident ambassador.     

Here at Mulberry Court, we were gifted some pantomime tickets, so a few residents along with members of our team headed out on a cold and wet afternoon to York’s Grand opera house to see Cinderella.

The classic story was told along with songs and spectacular costumes as well as the usual sprinkle of traditional pantomime humour.

Everyone had a marvellous time and really enjoyed the performance.     

Mulberry Court care home, in Rawcliffe, York, got in the Christmas spirit by inviting world-famous chocolate company Nestle into our home and threw a party for residents.

Mulberry Court’s Christmas party was in full swing with Nestle hosting bingo and festive crafts as well as chatting to all our residents.  Residents enjoyed a feast of chocolates provided by the company.

General Manager, Rachael Moss, said: “Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year and our fantastic residents love to get festive, so we’ve pulled out all the stops.  It is so lovely to see them all getting into the Christmas spirit, it’s definitely my favourite time of year.”

Dorothy, resident at Mulberry Court, said: “It has been a lovely day. It was wonderful to see everyone go to so much effort to get into the Christmas spirit. I really enjoyed Nestle coming in and hosting the party for us. It truly was a lovely morning.    

Today at Mulberry Court Care Home – Barchester Healthcare, we welcomed back our popular gardening club with Chris.

Residents planted a selection of pots with violas, pansies and other plants with the help of our wonderful students from St. John’s university before wrapping up warm and heading out into our garden to decide where they would like their individual pots to be placed.

Everyone is looking forward to seeing how they develop over time.     

Here at Mulberry Court Care Home – Barchester Healthcare we love a good party, so today we hosted a very special birthday one for resident Rachel and her family. Rachel's birthday was earlier in the week but today was the celebration when all her loved ones came together in our first floor jubilee lounge to mark her birthday.

Mark, our head chef, made and decorated her cake in her favourite colour, pink, to match all the decorations put up, especially, and thank you to Angie for preparing a trolley for refreshments.

Everyone had a great afternoon together.