Chollacott House resident Louise, has transformed the garden at the Drake Unit.

Blooming Garden at The Drake Unit, Tavistock

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Chollacott House resident come garden designer, Louise, has transformed the garden at the Drake Unit. By carefully selecting plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, she has created a wonderful scented, colourful, and peaceful place for residents and their visitors to enjoy. Fruit trees, sunflowers, tomatoes, runner beans, courgettes, lilacs, lavender – are all thriving in this little suntrap, with a draped sail providing shade from the midday sun. She has also created a willow canopy over a pretty wooden bench, again offering shade and privacy. Thank you Louise!

Summer Fair at Dove Tree House, cake sale and raffle

Summer Fair at Dove Tree House

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The Summer Fair at Dove Tree House, this year, has a Cowboy and Indian theme! Come along and join in the fun on Saturday 5th August between 3pm and 5.30pm. There will be a Cake Stall, Raffle, Bric-a-Brac, Birds of Prey, BBQ and a prize for the best dressed Cowboy or Indian. 88-91 Heavitree Road, Exeter EX1 2ND.

Tony Husband Book Reading

Tony Husband; Book Reading Event

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As members of the Exeter Dementia Action Alliance, Stonehaven were invited to a book reading by Tony Husband, of his  book ‘Take Care, Son; The Story of My Dad and his Dementia.’ It was an extremely moving and beautifully illustrated account of his father’s experience of living with dementia.  Tony’s book is an important inclusion in the National Reading Well Dementia book collection. The event was hosted by EDAA member Stephens Scown solicitors, and we were all treated to a cream tea.

The book is available to buy through Amazon:

 

 

 

 

 

Work starts on St Petrocs' Garden

Work starts on St Petrocs’ Garden

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The gardeners have been at St Petrocs in Bodmin this week, clearing the space outside the resident’s lounge. It has opened up the view of the garden and provided a large area for future development. We look forward to seeing the ‘after’ photos.

Wish tree at The Manor

Make a Wish at The Manor

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I love this tree! Staff and residents at The Manor have made it, and everyone is invited to write down their wish on an apple and add it to the tree. What a lovely idea!

Father's day BBQ at The Manor

Celebrating Father’s Day at The Manor

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Celebrating Father’s Day on the hottest weekend of the year so far, residents, family and staff enjoyed the BBQing skills of Sandra L Wright, Manager of The Manor in Exminster. Did you burn the sausages, Sandra?

Chollacott house open day cake sale and raffle

Care Home Open Day raises funds for residents activities

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Chollacott House in Tavistock opened it’s doors to the public as part of the National Care Homes Open Day on Friday. Through cake sales and raffle tickets, they raised £135.50 for residents activities.

National Care Home Day - Coffee Morning

National Care Home Open Day – 16th June 2017

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Our care homes will be opening their doors to the public on Friday 16th June, for coffee, cake, cream teas, raffles, bring and buy sales and so much more. You can pop along to any of our homes between 10am and 4pm, to join in the fun. For more information about the day, click on the below link:

http://www.carehomeopenday.org.uk

 

 

 

Stonehaven Support relocate to Linhay

Stonehaven Support Team Relocate

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Stonehaven Care Group is supported by and run by people who look upon caring for the elderly very seriously and they employ a total 300 employees in their ten care homes based across Devon & Cornwall and the central support office.  The results of those employees’ efforts to date had already recently included the inauguration (in late 2016) of ‘Primrose House’… an exceptionally luxurious, spacious and extensively equipped new care home in Westward Ho!

Acting on behalf of Stonehaven Care Group, property consultants Alder King have completed the freehold disposal of Unit 4C Linhay Business Park in Ashburton, Devon.  The West Country-based Stonehaven Care Group acquired the edge of town office unit.

The business park’s location has easy access to the A38 trunk road, approximately half way between Plymouth and Exeter, enabling Stonehaven to oversee its network of Care homes: in Brixham, Exeter, Exminster, Okehampton, Bodmin, Westward Ho! and Tavistock.

Linhay Business Park is an edge of town office campus development on the outskirts of Ashburton.  The scheme totals some 70,000 sq ft of office and light industrial space and is home to occupiers including Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, Age Concern and Motorola.

Stonehaven’s new premises provide 4,265 sq ft (396 sq m) of modern air conditioned office accommodation within a courtyard development and comes with 20 parking spaces.

Joy Lovell of Dove Tree and Mayor Cynthia Thompson

Remembering the Exeter Blitz of 1942

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Dove Tree resident, Joy Lovell, was invited to join Mayor Cynthia Thompson at the Guildhall in Exeter, for tea last Thursday morning. They were joined by other local residents who remember the Exeter blitz of 4th May 1942. Joy was 12 years old and living on South Street, which was heavily bombed – 52 shops on the street were demolished that night. The Mayor gave a very moving speech, read some poetry, and talked about her own family’s memories of the night that killed 156 and injured 563 in Exeter. We then took Joy on the short stroll from the Guildhall to the top of South Street, which has now been completely rebuilt. It was an emotional morning for Joy and the others, but wonderful to be in their presence as they reminisced about their amazing lives in the city.