Willow Gardens care home hosts charity coffee morning

Residents and visitors to Willow Gardens enjoyed a morning of tea and cake to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

Angela McCormack, Home Manager at Willow Garden said; "After a family friend, Wendy, needed a quadruple bypass last year we wanted to give something back to this rewarding charity. We served coffee, cupcakes, a fantastic coffee and walnut cake made by our very own commis chef Michelle and a beautiful heart-shaped cake which was used as a raffle prize and won by one of our respite residents."

The team managed to raise an amazing £110 from the sale of the cakes, raffle and balloon competition. Angela and Wendy also followed this event with a 4-mile walk around Virginia Water Lakes - something Wendy couldn't have done before the operation.

The property is part of Anchor Hanover, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people. Anchor Hanover has more than 60,000 customers in 54,000 homes across almost 1,700 locations, supported by more than 10,000 colleagues. Anchor Hanover provides retirement housing to rent and to buy, retirement villages and residential care homes, including specialist dementia care, operating in more than 90% of local councils in England.