Activities at Fordmill Care Home

Happy Carers Week! We would like to take this great opportunity to recognise and thank our wonderful carers at Fordmill.

We are proud of each and every one of our care team for the outstanding care that they provide to our residents every single day. They always go above and beyond their role and for this we are truly grateful.

As part of the week, our carers received numerous donations and gifts from local organisations and businesses and lovely thank you cards from our community members, relatives and friends.

Our homes had a lovely time joining Sue and Nicole from Ferndown Florist for an intriguing flower arrangement workshop in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Our residents enjoyed a wonderful virtual demonstration and got inspired to create their own flower posies for our Jubilee displays.  Our home will be specially decorated for the upcoming festivities. Stay tuned.

Excitement has been running high at Fordmill Care Home in Montrose where residents and staff have been busy making Jubilee-themed decorations in preparation for the Jubilee.

Staff and residents at the home put their heads together and came up with a plan for their celebrations fit for a Queen. The whole home came together to celebrate our longest reigning monarch and reminisce about what she means to each and every one of us.

Over the bank holiday weekend residents, staff, friends and families celebrated the Queens Platinum Jubilee in style with a fabulous garden party. The weather was perfect and it was lovely to see life getting back to some form of normality. We were delighted to welcome family and friends as well as the local community who came to celebrate with us. Everyone tucked into an appetising array of cakes and snacks with plenty of tea, coffee, cold drinks and ice cream. The Noreen-Marie Geddes dancing school were amazing, captivating everyone with their talent while the Travelling Ukes entertained with much loved songs. One member of the community said we couldn’t have celebrated the Queens Jubilee any better than we did while another marvelled that even the children were catered for with toys and mini golf.

We had a lovely time joining Graham Whitlock for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘The Crystal Palace Chronicles: Star of Nimrod’.

Our residents were thrilled to find out more about the book and the fictional character Joe, who went on a rollercoaster adventure travelling back in time to the heyday of Victorian Crystal Palace.

Everyone had lots of fun during the virtual talk, as Graham took them on a clever and hilarious adventure. A great time was had by all.

Staff and residents at Barchester Fordmill Care Home in Montrose celebrated one of their own in style. Lisa Anderson, who captains Montrose Women’s FC, together with Eilidh Reid brought in the winning League Cup to show and share with the residents and staff. The residents at Fordmill enjoyed posing with Lisa and Eilidh, taking turns holding the coveted trophy with pride.

General Manager Aileen Alberts at Fordmill Care Home said: “We are very proud of Lisa’s achievements, she’s a credit to our home.”  Ron Watson, one of the residents at Fordmill has followed Lisa’s football journey said she’s done really well, worked very hard and he’s so proud of her. It has been a lovely day.’

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.