Activities at Mulberry Court Care Home

Wow, what a truly magnificent afternoon we had here at Mulberry Court care home as we celebrate 80 years since VE Day.

A completely packed lounge of residents, their families and friends enjoyed music from the era provided by Tony & Patsy, whilst those who were unable to join the group were gifted with an ice cream from "Swirlz" of Pocklington with the help of local army cadets from St. Peters' school.

Once the music had stopped in the lounge, everyone then moved to our "street party" and enjoyed chatting with the cadets while eating their ice-creams. Thank you to everyone who helped and attended and made many new marvellous memories.  

Resident Ambassador, Eileen, completes the Race for Life with granddaughter Emily and is accompanied by Rachael Moss, General Manager.  Rachael and Eileen completed this year’s ‘Race for Life’ around York Racecourse to raise money for the home’s local food banks and cancer research.

Relatives and staff were at the starting line to cheer them on, as they began their fundraising endeavours.

Rachael Moss, General Manager said: “Taking part in this challenge has been a huge amount of fun and everyone at the home has been behind us all the way. It’s for such an important cause. "I’m very glad to be able to do my bit to raise further awareness and money for the charity.”
 

The home was decorated in red, white and blue and residents and staff dressed up in their 1940s-inspired glad rags and enjoyed an afternoon of big band music and dancing.  Residents observed the national two-minute silence and listened again to Churchill’s iconic speech accepting Germany’s surrender and an address from the Queen.  

They reminisced about their memories of VE Day and watched clips of the celebrations that took place outside Buckingham Palace and all across London. In the afternoon, they were entertained with music from the era provided by “Tony & Patsy” while the local army cadets from St. Peter’s school helped deliver ice-creams to everyone from “Swirlz” ice creams of Pocklington.
 

Residents and staff welcomed local volunteer, Tony Kisby from RAF Museum Snaith to host an informative talk on the RAF's involvement in the Falkland conflict.

RAF Snaith Museum is located at the former WAAF Site Number 1 in Pollington. It has been created by a group of volunteers as a place to remember and celebrate the lives of the men and women of 150 Squadron, 51 Squadron and the Women’s Land Army, who all served there between 1941 and 1949. Residents and their guests were honoured to welcome volunteer, Tony, to the home to host his talk, before opening the floor to a Q&A session.
 

Staff and residents celebrated Easter with a whole host of different activities, including a special Christian service led by Linda, followed by an Easter egg hunt around the home's award-winning garden, taking advantage of the early Spring sunshine and live entertainment from popular vocalist, John Kellow.

Residents at Mulberry Court enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from making Easter cards, decorations and bunting.  Residents also tucked in to a delicious Easter meal of roast lamb with all the trimmings freshly prepared by our chef Ian, Kath and the kitchen team.
 

Today at Mulberry Court we were joined by our male resident ambassador's daughter Joan, who very kindly gave up her time to help residents create some Easter decorations. 

Everyone had a wonderful afternoon deciding which materials to use and how to design their individual letter to go onto the banner. The finished result now has pride of place in our café bar area!