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We have received such a generous donation from the lovely Claire from Bubbly Books ! 👩🎨🎨
Claire is an independent award-winning Usborne Partner who raises funds to provide brain booster packs to facilities that provide dementia care.
She very kindly donated these to Barnes Lodge as part of her scheme and we are so grateful! We can’t wait to use these with our residents 😊
Thank you, Claire!
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Did someone say Bingo? 🏅
Our residents love a game of bingo, especially when there’s prizes to be won 👀
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SUMMER FETE SUCCESS! 😎🍦
Thank you so, so much to everyone who came yesterday, the overwhelming love and support we received was something we could never have imagined! The amount of people who showed up (some who have never visited Barnes lodge before), was incredible. Our residents said that everyone who came showed them nothing but kindness and that they had the best time, so for that alone, thank you 🥰
To Vince, who put on such an incredible performance, thank you so so much!
To Julian (ice cream van) thank you so much for providing such lovely refreshments in the very warm weather!
To Tash, Fran, Billie, Jack, Hannah, Terry, Abby and Tierion who helped on stalls, thank you to each and every one of you, we couldn’t have done this without you 🥰
And of course, to our staff, whether you were on shift or off shift, your help and support yesterday was incredible. Thank you thank you thank you ❤️
And to everyone who donated food, drinks, all of the donations for the stalls and raffle, who brought anything yesterday and supported us, we can’t thank you enough, we couldn’t have done it without all of your kindness! 😊
We raised just over £500 yesterday (exact total to be counted and verified), which is more than we could have ever imagined, this money will be going to the residents and will make a huge difference!
Thank you again to everyone who came yesterday, we hope you had a lovely time 🥰
OUR SUMMER FETE IS TOMORROW! 😎🌞
We can’t wait to welcome you all tomorrow! We will be in the garden/ground floor dining room and the ice cream van will be out front in the car park 🍦
We have stalls, teddy bear tombola, guess the name of the teddy, raffle and live music!
Unfortunately our good friend Mel has had to cancel due to illness but Vince will be now starting from 14:30!
Please remember it is CASH ONLY tomorrow 💵💵
And also remember to put your numberplate in if you park in our car park and to sign in and out in reception!
See you tomorrow!
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Hello everyone!
Just a friendly reminder that our summer fete is being held next weekend! We can’t wait to see you all there! 😊
We will be having live music from our friends Vince Cox and Melanie Dunhill throughout! 🎤
We will also be having an ice cream van, food and drink will be available, there will be a range of stalls, and of course, our raffle being held at around 4pm! 🍰🥤
We also want to thank everyone who have very kindly given us so many beautiful donations for our fete, none of this would have been possible without you all! 🎁
We can’t wait to share this special day with you all!
Raffle tickets will be available from Saturday, please remember it will be cash only! 💵
And lastly, a kind reminder for everyone to please input their number plate into the black screen in reception as well as your details into the white iPad on the day! 🚗
We can’t wait to see you there! 😊🎉
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A little insight into our week so far here at Barnes lodge 📸
On Monday morning we were joined by our good friends at Nexus School! Our residents loved chatting about their lives and asking the students questions while playing games and getting creative with some arts and crafts 🎨
Yesterday we had our church service with St Stephen’s church (there will be a separate post for this 👀🎤 so stay tuned!)
Then today, we started off the day with Bingo and then we took a quick trip to the shops to get some plants for our garden 🪴 before residents got competitive with some games this afternoon 🎲
And of course, our residents are nervously awaiting the first England match of the World Cup, come on England! ⚽️🏴
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