Activities at Tyspane Care Home

Congratulations to Anais Rose Davie, our young volunteer, who was named as the Volunteer of the Year at the 2018 Barchester Care Awards.

This award goes to an individual who shows real passion and dedication by freely giving their time and energy at one of our homes or hospitals. 

Well done, Anais!

We hosted a coffee morning in recognitions of Macmillan Cancer Support's World's Biggest Coffee Morning on 28th September. It was lovely to be a part of such a successful campaign and so rewarding to be able to help out.

Residents baked cakes for the occasion, which went down a treat and we were also joined by the children from Beach Buddies Nursery, who came with money to buy our goodies.

Staff and residents at Tyspane enjoyed celebrating World Dog Day on Monday 27th August, when we hosted our 4th annual dog show.

This year’s dog show featured nine entertaining categories, including 'Waggiest Tail', 'Scruffiest Mutt', 'Best Junior Handler' and 'Noisiest Mutt', amongst others.

'Best in Show' was chosen by residents and staff, and was awarded for the second year running to Bronson, the French Bulldog, owned by the Abi Quaintance.

'Best Junior Handler' went to Jamie Townsend and his dog Jasper. His Swiss Shepherd impressed the crowds with his tricks.

6 year old, Diane Widgery, melted everyone’s heart and won second place in the 'Best Junior Handler' category. She did, however, win the 'Best Puppy' category with 11 week old Tinkerbelle.

It was a fun-fulled day, despite the weather.

On Saturday July 7th, the residents at Tyspane experienced a chocolate bonanza! We displayed chocolates from around the world, from the dark chocolate from Ecuador and Venezuala to sweet chocolate with peanut butter from America. We also had a selection from Germany, Belgian, France and of course Switzerland. We also had a chocolate fountain and fresh stawberries and it all went down like a treat! Perfect morning before settling down to watch the England game!

Spending time outside during the summer months is essential to our resident's well-being but what could make being outdoors even better? Well a visit from some Alpaca's seemed to do the trick, they came on a sunny day in July! They managed to visit just about everyone, they came indoors too, much to the delight of residents who were not able to go out.

Liam was voted as employee of the month for May 2018.  Liam is pictured with Jennifer Hodges the General Manager at Tyspane

Liam Prust is Acting Head Chef, he has very hard recently and has been instrumental in providing great service and great food to the residents at Tyspane.

General Manager Jenny said “thank you Liam for always going the extra mile to keep our residents happy”.