A Warm Welcome to Weavers Court Residents
With our Leeds care home, Weavers Court, now open, residents are steadily joining us with ten lovely people already living with us and two set to join our home community after Christmas. Weavers Court, Adore Care’s brand-new purpose-built luxury care home in the village of Rawdon, is set to be filled with joy and laughter this festive season, with a long list of activities already in full swing.
Elf and Happiness
Our residents are making the most of the Christmas season and have – along with staff, friends and family – already enjoyed their first charity day. Elf Day allowed us all to become more “elf-aware” and we raised £50 for Alzheimer’s charities. There were plenty of laughs on our Elf Day but, as ever, our team made sure that elf and safety was paramount!
The team was thrilled to welcome our first resident in mid-November, with Maureen’s arrival. Brenda also joined us on the same day and both residents were able to dive into our activities programme, with Autumn Spice Cake Baking top of the list.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
With more residents joining us in December, we have also been able to launch our December activities, which wrap up the best of the Christmas season. A wonderful tradition that we have been delighted to introduce to Weavers Court is our Christingle making session, where our residents transformed oranges into beacons of light, with tantalising sweeties added. We then lit these to mark the period between Advent and Candlemas and it set the scene for some fabulous festive activities.
We know how to have fun at Weaver Court and we certainly did on the day of our Mulled Wine Masterclass. Getting the balance of sweet, spice and sharp just right is a skill in itself and our residents were able to play around with their flavours until they got their mix just right. One of our residents David, was formerly a wine and spirits manager so was in his element dispensing advice! Our warm mulled wine certainly warmed all of our cockles.
We complemented our mulled wine making with our mince pie baking session. This is a fabulous way to make sure that our residents can continue with their own traditions, with some of our residents having made mince pies for many decades at home. While we may have made a healthy stack of rich and buttery pastry pies, bursting with tasty and flavoursome mincemeat, our pies didn’t last long and were gone all too soon! Extras being baked as we write!
Crafty!
While Christmas is a time for eating lots of goodies, we also really love to get involved in arts and crafts. To help us make the most of this time of year, we launched our Christmas Craft Club. This allows our residents to get busy making garlands and decorations to bring colour and life to Weavers Court. If you pop in to visit us, you may well see the handicrafts of our Christmas Craft Club all over our home.
Our residents have also perfected the art of making Christmas wreaths, using festive greenery to bring the outdoors in. The room was filled with the scent of pine and our wreaths were finished and hung.
Our facilities at Weavers Court are second to none and this was certainly the case when we help our first Weavers Court Pub Quiz in our Sky Bar. It was an evening of fun and laughter – and a little bit of competition – as our residents answered some very tricky questions to find out who our first quiz champion would be. We’ll be running many more quizzes in the new year, so there will be plenty of challengers for our winner.
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