Activities at Station Court Care Home

Throughout 2023 we are very proud to have assisted various charities every month at Station Court Care Home.

This month we were delighted to support the Wansbeck Christmas Campaign aiding them on their mission to ensure every child wakes up with a present from Santa this year.

We are blown away from the support from staff, visitors and individuals in our community who have collected and donated toys and gifts for our collection and come together to be able to gift a little boy a Nintendo switch from Santa this year.

It is amazing to see a community come together to make children’s wishes happen thank you to all our Christmas angels.

We were full of pride to join our local community Remembrance service in, Ashington. Listening to the brass band along the street and coming together in the towns memorial garden. Fusilier, David attended in his full uniform making our full home proud of him.

In house we remembered and reflected on remembrance coming together to fall silent, reciting poetry and reminiscing with war memorabilia from Northumberland library. We sang along and danced the afternoon away to wartime classics performed live by musical memories and remembered the fallen together.

‘’At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.’’

We had an explosive day at Station Court celebrating bonfire night this month.

We had fun creating our very own penny for the guy and parading him around our home reminiscing of younger years and fun times as children.

When night time came we had a sparkling evening and headed to the garden to watch fireworks light up the sky with sparklers before warming up around the fire, testing our knowledge with a Guy Fawkes themed quiz, hot chocolates and sweet treats.

An Administrator at Station Court Care Home in Ashington has received a prestigious 10 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 10 years.  Tracey Tait, home administrator started at Barchester in November 2013 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years. Tracey Tait said ‘’ I am over the moon to receive gifts and recognition from the home resident ambassador, from Barchester for my loyalty, it’s great to feel appreciated in your role. I am looking forward to many more years making a difference to the residents lives I care for and supporting the staff I work alongside.’’

We had a terror-ific day at Station Court, getting messy and creative with local children and families joining us from the community for our pumpkin painting party. We designed and painted pumpkins, holding a competition for the most creative and the spookiest, we took part in a Halloween quiz together and everyone received eeriestible treats (no tricks)

We love hosting events for our local community and bringing people together. Intergenerational sessions are not only fun for everyone they have many mental and physical benefits for all ages involved.

Lay Minister Paulette, Rev Lorna and Anna Chaplain Julie joined us from the Holy Sepulchre Church to hold a special Harvest Service in our lounge to give thanks with prayers, hymns and offering communion to residents who wish.

The lovely ladies visit every Monday and hold holy communion once a month to enable our Christian residents to remain faith, feel connected, supported and uplifted.

After the service we held a mindful session on giving thanks and to what we are grateful for and collected items for our harvest collection to donate to our local food bank – Wansbeck Food Valley.