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Caring at Christmas

2020

In a year like no other, ensuring we continue to support residents to live a fulfilled life is more important than ever.

To support wellbeing this winter and show that despite the pandemic, Christmas can still be a magical time for residents and colleagues to enjoy, we have a host of exciting #CaringatChristmas activities planned to raise everyone’s spirits.

Carols at Christmas 

To kick start the festive season, our care homes have united to create a special rendition of the festive classic ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’.

  

Pantomime fun

Theatres and community centres may be closed for now, but we’re not going to let that stop our care home residents from enjoying a traditional Christmas pantomime. We’re very excited that our care homes teams have six family favourite panto scripts to choose from and across the country colleagues are going to be putting on their own performances this December. 

Anchor care home resident performs ‘The Night Before Christmas’

The Night Before Christmas

We have a very special reading of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ performed by two residents from The Manor House care home in Harrogate. We invite you to enjoy this classic tale with loved ones, as many of our residents are as Christmas approaches.

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Christmas cheer across our homes

The Manor House Barnard Castle joins forces for virtual Christmas market
23 Dec 2020

The Manor House Barnard Castle joins forces for virtual Christmas market

Christmas markets might be cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic but not to be deterred, several Anchor care homes have gone above and beyond to organise their very own.

Trinity Lodge care home residents take part in national cake decorating competition
23 Dec 2020

Trinity Lodge care home residents take part in national cake decorating competition

Residents living at Anchor’s Trinity Lodge joined forces to take part in the cake decorating competition, as part of many other Christmas activities taking place at the home.

St Anne’s care home residents enjoy Christmas festivities
23 Dec 2020

St Anne’s care home residents enjoy Christmas festivities

Residents at St Anne’s care home are taking part in various Christmas activities this year to get into the holiday spirit.

Wetherby Manor and Oulton Manor care homes come together to host virtual Christmas market
23 Dec 2020

Wetherby Manor and Oulton Manor care homes come together to host virtual Christmas market

Christmas markets might be cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic but not to be deterred, two Leeds care homes have gone above and beyond to organise their very own.

Clayburn Court care home delights in virtual Christmas cake competition
22 Dec 2020

Clayburn Court care home delights in virtual Christmas cake competition

Residents at Clayburn Court care home kicked off the holiday season with a virtual Christmas cake competition, which saw their very best cake decorators take on other care homes in the region.

Local school donates Christmas hamper to Orchard Gardens care home
21 Dec 2020

Local school donates Christmas hamper to Orchard Gardens care home

Orchard Gardens care home residents were recently treated to a very special festive hamper, courtesy of Crestwood Community School, with goods further donated by local Tesco stores.

Ferendune Court care home partners with local schools for Santagram project
17 Dec 2020

Ferendune Court care home partners with local schools for Santagram project

Ferendune Court care home recently partnered with local schools for the Santagram project, which aims to deliver gift bags to older people over the festive period.

Local children go above and beyond to bring Christmas joy to The Ridings care home
17 Dec 2020

Local children go above and beyond to bring Christmas joy to The Ridings care home

Residents at The Ridings care home were recently joined by year 3 students from Dashwood Banbury Academy for some virtual Christmas fun.

Mayflower Court care home residents enjoy A Christmas Carol screening
17 Dec 2020

Mayflower Court care home residents enjoy A Christmas Carol screening

Mayflower Court residents recently gathered for an extra-special screening of the festive classic ‘A Christmas Carol’, streamed live from The Old Vic Theatre.

Anchor care home residents perform ‘The Night Before Christmas’
15 Dec 2020

Anchor care home residents perform ‘The Night Before Christmas’

As part of our #CaringAtChristmas campaign, residents at The Manor House care home in Harrogate, recently recorded an extra-special rendition of the classic festive poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’.

Glendale care home Christmas tree decorated by local community
15 Dec 2020

Glendale care home Christmas tree decorated by local community

Residents and carers at Glendale care home have thanked members of the public, including the mayor of Elmbridge, for helping to decorate the care home’s Community Christmas tree.

Greenacres care home Christmas tree decorated by local community
11 Dec 2020

Greenacres care home Christmas tree decorated by local community

Residents and carers at the Banstead care home have thanked members of the public for helping to decorate the care home’s Christmas tree.

Silk Court care home Christmas tree decorated by local community
11 Dec 2020

Silk Court care home Christmas tree decorated by local community

Residents and carers at the Bethnal Green care home have thanked members of the public for helping to decorate the care home’s Christmas Tree.

Linwood care home Christmas tree decorated by local community
11 Dec 2020

Linwood care home Christmas tree decorated by local community

Residents and carers at the Thames Ditton care home have thanked members of the public for helping to decorate the care home’s Christmas Tree.

Manor House Knaresborough care home treated to Christmas Carols from local school children
11 Dec 2020

Manor House Knaresborough care home treated to Christmas Carols from local school children

The residents of the Manor House care home on Hambleton Grove have thanked local children for singing them carols and donating handmade Christmas decorations for their Christmas trees.

Residents and carers team up for West Hall care home Christmas displays
9 Dec 2020

Residents and carers team up for West Hall care home Christmas displays

Residents and carers teamed up at West Hall care home in West Byfleet to create illuminated spaces inspired by their favourite family Christmas traditions.

Festive challenges

Colleagues and residents will be taking part in a range of one-minute festive challenges, using inflatable candy cane hockey stick to shoot inflatable candy sweets into a pop-up football net as well as competing to build the tallest Christmas tree using plastic cups. 

#CrackerSmile

We want to give residents, colleagues, loved ones, care professionals… everyone an opportunity to make each other smile this year.

Our #CrackerSmile social media campaign asks people to share a favourite Christmas cracker joke or a message of festive goodwill with us using the #CrackerSmile hashtag on Twitter or Facebook. Using specially created graphics, we’ll turn your jokes and messages into a series of short digital Christmas Cracker videos that can be shared online to spread a little joy in the runup to Christmas Day. 

Christmas cracker

#CrackerSmile

Share your favourite Christmas cracker joke or a message of festive goodwill using the #CrackerSmile hashtag on social media and help us share a little festive joy.

Get involved

Christmas craft guide

As well as being a fun pastime, we know there are many benefits to crafting – sharing projects brings people together and the creativity can help reduces stress. Across the country we have a lot of extremely talented people living and working with us and we’ll be highlighting the array of creative festive projects underway and asking for your tips and ideas too. 

Snowman

Christmas craft guide

Download our free booklet of easy to enjoy craft projects for some festive inspiration.

Download our Christmas craft guide

#CaringatChristmas on Twitter

Our homes will be sharing photos and videos of all their Christmas festivities, favourite jokes and messages of good will across Twitter using the hashtag #CaringatChristmas. Follow us and see how we are supporting residents to have a magical Christmas this year.

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