Riverside Care Centre

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from Riverside Care Centre! ✨🎄

Wishing you all the magic and joy of the season from our home to yours! Merry Christmas!

We continue to enjoy doing our volunteer work at the farm. We’ve told everyone how great it is and now we have encouraged others to want to come along and lend a helping hand too.

We are loving it so far, we definitely earn our lunch breaks!

Who doesn't love a good sing and dance! We certainly do. The residents of Riverside had a great time as we welcomed a special performance from a very talented singer.

And just like that, we are off on our holidays again! Two of our ladies jumped onto the train to Butlins where they had a trip to remember... Lots of games were played and prizes won! Thankfully, the sun also shone for us which was an added bonus.

Thank you to all who attended our fabulous Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebration, it was a wonderful day! Thank you also to those who worked behind the scenes with catering, decorations and preparations. We congratulate Her Majesty on her 70 year reign!

VOLUNTEER DRIVERS NEEDED
How you can make a difference: By volunteering to transport our patients to and from activities venues
Why Riverside Care Centre needs you:
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who could spend a couple of hours picking up our residents and taking them to activities venues. This could be any day of the week and any hours that best suits you. We will try to fix activities around your schedules.
Skills and Experience Required:
• You should be medically fit to drive.
• You should be enthusiastic, friendly, and polite.
• You should be reliable
• You should be a confident driver and have a clean driving licence. Access to your own car is not essential except to drive to the care home. We have a Minivan and car.
• You will need to have integrity and empathy for others, be sensitive to our residents' needs, and respect the confidential nature of this role.
What can Riverside Care Centre offer me as a volunteer?
• The opportunity ‘to give something back to your local community and join our hardworking, dedicated staff band.
• Meeting new people, making new friends and being part of the Riverside Care Centre team.
• The ability to develop new skills and interests and put them into practice.
• The opportunity to put your existing set of skills into practice.
• Gain experience to use for your CV

Our residents enjoyed a visit to the Safari Park to see beautiful animals. This was a much-enjoyed outing and much appreciated by all who went along.

Our residents had a super time on a week’s holiday to Butlins. Our residents returned in great spirits and expressed how they had enjoyed themselves and were truly overwhelmed by the experience!

We’ve had a great time celebrating Easter this year. We made Easter bonnets for our annual competition. Congratulations to Mark and June on being this years winners!

We made the most of the nice weather over the bank holiday weekend, spending time together in the sun and we even had a welcome visit from the ice cream man!

We had a fabulous time getting messy and flipping some tasty pancakes! They came in all shapes and sizes and were truly delicious with chocolate spread and fresh strawberries.

A very big happy birthday to Christine who celebrated with a lovely dinner out at the local pub.

Wishing a very happy birthday to David and Christine. We hope you both had a wonderful day and enjoyed your presents!

Valentine’s Day is such a special time of the year. It’s the perfect opportunity to show our loved ones just how much they mean to us. Riverside residents had fun making their own Valentine’s Day cards, but shh, we can’t tell you who they were for!

In recognition of our Scottish friends, we enjoyed a traditional Burns supper complete with Haggis, 'neeps' and 'tatties'! We finished at the meal with some delicious Scottish shortbread.

We can’t wait to see our families over Christmas and we’ve been busy selecting gifts for them all. We are sure they will love them!

Christmas is nearly here and it’s by far our favourite time of the year! Residents have enjoyed songs, laughter and joy as we have been busy getting Riverside all ready for the big day! The trees are up and the decorations adorn our home.

Residents continue to keep themselves entertained around the houses as the season's change and it gets colder and colder! We’ve been doing plenty of baking and cooking which tasted even better than expected!

The residents had a great time over the Halloween period. They carved pumpkins, baked festive treats for all to enjoy and helped create spooky designs to decorate their houses!

We are very much looking forward to the Halloween party that we have planned. We can't wait to share all our photos with you in next month.

Over the last month, our residents have continued to enjoy arts and crafts and walk around the grounds along with family visits.

We are now able to welcome back Musical Mobility to Riverside. It’s a great opportunity for residents to get together in a safe way, enjoy some gentle exercise to music and without a doubt, have a good sing along!

We would like to wish a very happy birthday to Peter! We hope that you enjoyed your special day with all your friends at Riverside. 🥳

Residents have continued to enjoy being able to see their families more often - it is so lovely to see happy reunions! Residents have also been safely going home to spend the day with their loved ones.

We would like to wish a very happy birthday to Diane and Gillian! We hope that you enjoyed your special day with all your friends at Riverside.

It is with great gladness that we announce the restarting of our trips out in the community. The residents have loved going out to our local park and enjoying the beautiful weather we have had recently!