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Walking for Memories

We’re planning to take part in a sponsored walk in Clumber Park to help raise money for The Alzheimer’s Society. Every pound raise helps The Alzheimer’s Society fund new research, providing precious support to more people and brings us closer to a world without dementia. We’d love for family and friends to join us, if […]

Lunch Group is Now Weekly – Everyone Welcome!

We’re very excited to announce that our monthly lunch group is now weekly! We’ve had such a good uptake and so many new faces are attending, so we decided to make it a more regular event. If you or a loved one is feeling isolated and struggling to get out and about, why not come […]

A Visit from Our Rodent Friends

The other day Anna, our activities co-ordinator brought in her pet rats Bobby and Caleb and her guinea pigs Penelope and Henrietta for everyone to meet and have a cuddle with. Cuddling a fury friend is a great stress reliever and they were such funny little fellows! It’s hard to believe that some people are […]

Oh I do Like to be Beside The Seaside!

While we have a lovely garden to enjoy the heatwave in, nothing beats the seaside on a sunny day! So we took our first sea side trip of the year to Cleethorpes. We had fish and chips, walked along the beach and promenade and petted some donkeys. Both residents and staff had a great time, […]

New Cultural Experiences

We very much enjoyed watching some beautiful Indian folk dancing performed by a lovely dancer the other week. We also had a go at dancing ourselves! Many of our residents love to dance and it’s so fun learning about other cultures. Some of our visitors joined in too, it was such a lovely afternoon. Dancing […]

Carers Week 2018

Carers Week (11th – 17th of June) is a time for individuals and organisations to celebrate carers, both paid and unpaid and raise awareness of the issues they face. This carers week, we are looking at the ways in which we can support carers to stay healthy and connected. By building communities to support carers, […]

A Royal Celebration

On Saturday we had a wonderful time celebrating the royal wedding. We had decorations and fancy dress, coffee and cake. Some of our family members came to visit and Andy Cahill came down to play his saxophone for us. We had such a good time, and it was lovely to see the new Duchess looking […]

We Won! Top 20 Home Care Provider.

We’ve been named as one of the top 20 home care providers by authority homecare.co.uk. We’d like to give a special thanks to all our hard working and dedicated home care staff, and also to you, for giving us top ratings on homecare.co.uk. To help our home care staff keep getting the recognition they deserve. […]

Finally – Some Lovely Sunshine!

The long winter which crept into spring didn’t hold us back too much at Twelve Trees, all our home care staff managed to attend all their appointments in the snow, and we planned lots of activities to do in the warm such as a trip out to The Light cinema for their dementia friendly cinema experience and […]

Easter at Twelve Trees

The Easter Bunny has visited us here at Twelve Trees, and we got plenty of chocolate at breakfast! In the run up to the occasion we did lots and lots of crafting. We made some Easter bonnets, some easter gifts which we sold to raise money for our activities fund, decorated an Easter tree and […]