Activities at Mulberry Court Care Home

Residents, Roy and Ellen at Mulberry Court in York have been crowned Resident Ambassadors of the Year for the North NE Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2024 and are through to the national round of judging.

The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 261 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.

With a little help from Pam from the ‘Blue House Bookshop’ we have been busy sorting through our many donated books so that we can start our very own mobile library and fill some our bookshelves with fresh books.  Our Book Club is a popular group activity bringing everyone together to discuss their favourite genres whilst choosing books which everyone can enjoy.

With the glorious weather upon us we headed outside with our books to enjoy our garden.

It was a huge honour and privilege to be able to take one of our lovely resident’s Rachael to her sister’s wedding after overcoming lots of hurdles and set back’s we were finally able to make her sister’s wish come true.

We took Rachael and her husband to St. Winifred’s Church in York in the shadow of the impressive Minster.

I have never seen such response from Rachael before as she engaged with members of her family some who had travelled from Australia specially.  After the beautiful ceremony the happy couple were lead to their reception by the “New York brass band.

Staff and residents are celebrating because their wonderful Managing Director, Fiona Fagan, from Barchester’s North East and Scotland Division, has stepped completely out of her comfort zone to compete in the Barchester Charitable Foundation Cook Off 2024.

Fiona went head-to-head with the Managing Directors from Barchester’s four other divisions and cooked up a storm to raise a phenomenal £24,595 for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation which helps connect vulnerable people and those living with a disability to community groups in their local area by providing grants to improve mobility and quality of life.  Each year the Foundation distributes thousands of pounds to individuals, small community groups and charities across England, Scotland and Wales.  

We didn’t let the rain dampen our spirits and because the weather wasn’t great, we thought we do some arts and crafts and paint pebbles….

It’s harder than it looks but the residents had a good attempt at it and we absolutely love them, there was a splash of colour everywhere!

Today at Mulberry Court York we held a Wimbledon special – residents played a game of tennis against each other over our newly purchased net.

Afterwards we all enjoyed a tasty treat of strawberries and cream and a nice cup of tea.  We also had a special guest appearance by “Sue Barker”.

So much fun and laughter was a fantastic atmosphere!