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We are starting the year full throttle with some significant work planned to enhance your experience. As part of our commitment to maintaining a welcoming and comfortable environment, we will be resurfacing and renovating the lower reception area. Alongside this, essential service repairs will be undertaken to ensure everything runs smoothly. While these improvements are underway, our regular refurbishment of the bedrooms will continue without interruption. What to Expect Dur

In the past two weeks, our activity levels have slowed down as our staff have been engaged in additional training focused on manual handling assessments. This training is a crucial step toward improving how we support residents when their needs change. By equipping our team with better skills in assessing and managing manual handling, we aim to reduce waiting times and lessen our reliance on external local services. This post explores how this targeted training benefits resid

The holiday season brings a unique kind of joy and busyness. Over the past few weeks, we have been fully engaged in festive activities, which has kept us from posting here as often as we would like. We want to take a moment to thank you for your patience and understanding during this time. While our blog has been quiet, we have continued sharing updates on our Facebook page. Now, as the year draws to a close, we want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new yea

Santa will be visiting St. Winifred's on December 23rd. He will first visit the residents, followed by family and friends. If you wish to see Santa, please inform us by December 1st with the number of children attending, so Santa's elves can prepare enough gifts for everyone.

Every year, we hold a Christmas raffle to help raise funds for the home's activities, entertainers, events, and more. Tickets are now available for £1.00 per strip. Sales will end at our residents' Christmas party when the raffle is drawn on December 19, 2025.

On Monday, November 10th, our registered manager attended a "scrutiny in a day" event at Halifax Town Hall. This event was part of a review investigating the causes behind the closure of several care and nursing homes in the borough. It provided us with an opportunity to emphasise the real pressures, financial disparities, and sustainability issues faced by the care sector. Our contribution will be included in a comprehensive review, which we hope will aid in uniting the sect

We celebrated World Kindness Day by expressing our appreciation for one another. Our activity coordinator designed a beautiful World Kindness display to encourage and support discussions about how the kindness of others affects our lives.

We are always extremely thankful for the support of our neighbor, who annually assists in creating a beautiful display of poppies in honor and remembrance of those who have fallen. Following the two minutes of silence, we had a wartime-themed sing-along. The residents enjoyed their usual weekly bingo, played a game of "Play Your Cards Right" before our monthly church service, and participated in a general knowledge quiz. To end the week, residents enjoyed some Christmas craft

At St Winifred's, we prefer to say "how" rather than "no." Keeping this approach in mind, when a family member asked us to organise a hot tub for their mother's birthday, we eagerly explored how to turn this dream into reality. After careful planning, necessary risk assessments, and collaborating with the family to overcome obstacles, we were thrilled to help them enjoy this birthday treat on the 9th of November.

We had another bustling week at St. Winifred's. We kicked off the week with our usual BINGO, and residents enjoyed our Guy Fawkes activities, including giving a penny for the guy and engaging in bonfire night-themed activities with the traditional pie and mushy peas. We celebrated residents' birthdays and were delighted to have the wonderful Steve Flynn perform for them. Mixing things up a bit, residents also enjoyed a game of "hoy Bingo," got competitive with some dominoes,

We had a lovely evening on Thursday representing St Winifred's Nursing Home at the KirCca Care awards. It was inspiring to celebrate so much positivity and success within the care industry. Both Sandra and I felt very humbled and honored to be finalists. We didn't win this time, but it was a fantastic opportunity and a wonderful event celebrating our industry. Perhaps next year!

With our activities coordinator back from annual leave, we've had a busy week. Halloween bingo kicked off on Monday, and we've enjoyed card games and autumnal crafts. The weekly quiz featured a Halloween theme. We took a nostalgic trip playing tiddlywinks and indulged in some pampering with nail painting. The exercise class was as full as ever. We were delighted by a visit from bunnies as well as our usual visit from Ted, the therapy dog. To wrap up the week, we had a traditi

Last week, we participated for the first time in activities themed around the Diwali Festival. We learned all about the festival of light, its significance, and why it is celebrated. We enjoyed watching traditional dances and celebrations on our big screen while crafting fireworks with paint and crafts. Some of our residents chose to use their one-on-one sessions this week to make calming lavender bags. In baking class, we had fun decorating biscuits and making crispy buns, a

For a change, we began the week with a bit of card making, along with the usual bingo session. Residents who wished to participated in our monthly church service to celebrate their faith and the harvest season. We took time to reflect and share positivity with each other in support of World Mental Health Day. We enjoyed our weekly visit from "Ted" the therapy dog, who never fails to make us smile. This week's quiz focused on the British royals, and we discovered we have some

We thoroughly enjoyed "Zoo to You," who brought a variety of creatures for our residents to learn about, hold, and experience. We had some very brave residents and visitors.

As usual, we kicked off our week with a classic Bingo session, while embracing the autumn season with themed crafts and an autumn display. We celebrated residents' birthdays and enjoyed one-on-one interactions, along with our new weekly quiz. We introduced some new exercises using pom-poms and egg trays, which were well-received, and we were delighted to have Ted, our therapy dog, back now that he is feeling better.

We are thrilled to share that, following six Months of planning and negotiations, we have become a fully recycling organisation.

We began the week as usual with our weekly Bingo session and some one-on-one tabletop games. On Tuesday, we engaged in a "love yourself"...

Last week was filled with fun activities for everyone to enjoy. We kicked off with our usual Bingo on Monday, followed by a quiz day on...