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26 Nov 2024

Christmas Has Begun for Ormskirk

It may be too early for some but not for us here at Ormskirk as we have started our Christmas crafts! Home manager Geraldine said, “Today we have been decorating our own Christmas baubles! Needless to say there’s more glitter on our ladies, gents and staff than the baubles, but as you can see from […]

25 Nov 2024

St Helens’s Festive Trip to The Trafford Centre

In late November, our lovely gents Lee and Zac went on a festive jaunt to the Trafford Centre in Manchester. Starting off their day with lunch in the iconic food courts and a bit of Christmas shopping, they ended their day out with a game of bowling – a grand day out for them both!

18 Nov 2024

Children in Need Day at Homecare

We had so much fun on Friday here at our Homecare office and on our rounds too as it was Children in Need day – one of our favourite times of year Homecare Co-ordinator, Demi said, “Our fab staff were given the option to wear PJs instead of their uniform for a small charge for […]

15 Nov 2024

Mawdesley’s Children in Need 2024

WISH Activity Team Lead Jo and colleague Allison visited our ladies and gents in their rooms on the Friday morning offering a hot drink & Danish pastry, on Pudsey plates and napkins of course! Thank you to all who donated to this great cause. A big thank you to all our staff and residents for […]

14 Nov 2024

Coral Fever Party at St Helens

One weekend in November, Coral unit staff put on a fabulous themed party called CORAL FEVER! It was a mixture of a disco and festival theme in one, and it was a hit with everyone Our brilliant staff involved were staff Lauren, Paige, Kelly, Kay and Gift, in addition to agency carer Famous and the […]

13 Nov 2024

Skelmersdale’s Remembrance Day Sing-a-long

We had a wonderful day this Remembrance Sunday with the always lovely Golden Age Songbird. Dressed in her reminiscent uniform of the 30’s / 40’s, she joyfully entertained all our ladies, gents and staff on both our units. It was a pleasure to have you in our home once again and on such a special […]

12 Nov 2024

Ormskirk’s Remembrance Day Message Book

Our ladies and gents made a Remembrance Day book together and wrote lovely messages inside. Staff and our residents came together for the 2 minutes silence where we sang ‘Abide with Me’. It was so lovely with lots of reminiscing after, talking about there relatives who fought in the war. We will remember them.

11 Nov 2024

We Will Remember Them at Mawdesley

In early November we went on a trip to the Imperial War Museum today in Manchester to pay our respects on Remembrance Day with WISH Activity Team members Allison & Lucy (also our bus driver!). It was a lovely day of learning and remembering the great sacrifice many people made for our freedoms today. A […]

08 Nov 2024

15 Years Service Celebration at Homecare

We are so proud to celebrate our amazing Ann’s 15th year of service to Stocks Hall Homecare Ann is such an integral part of our family, from being ever dependable and favourite with our ladies and gents, to mentoring our new recruits – we are so proud to have Ann a part of our company. […]

04 Nov 2024

Halloween Fun at Skelmersdale!

We had a lovely day this Halloween, from our fabulous staff getting dressed up and into the ‘spirit’ of the things to putting on a show stopping menu from our amazing kitchen team – it was a special day to remember! We also made our own creepy creations from witches hats, paper pumpkins to pipe […]

24 Oct 2024

Blackpool Trips are Back for Mawdesley

With the turn of the season, it can only mean one thing for our WISH activity programme – our Blackpool Illumination trips are back! On the first of many trips we started off with a chippy tea at the Seafarer Chippy, which was delicious as always. A big thank you to the staff for […]

17 Oct 2024

St Helen’s Ghoulish Arts & Crafts

We have been getting Halloween ready here at St Helens with our home’s decorations are getting spookier and spookier by the day! WISH Activity Team member Jackie said, “This week we’ve had ladies from three different units gathered round the table together making spooky ghost decorations, along with Coral carer, Lauren. These are now on […]

07 Oct 2024

Mawdesley’s Day Trip to The Lakes

In the first week of October, we headed out on a trip to Windemere in the lovely Lake District. What a beautiful place this is! We had a delicious lunch with a view at Quayside Bowness. Restaurant manager, Ian was lovely, bubbly, helpful and welcomed us with open arms. The food was as beautiful as […]

04 Oct 2024

Pyjama & Pizza Party at St Helens

Now that the weather is getting colder and nights are drawing in, what could be better than a pizza party in your pyjamas with all your friends!? The party organisers on Coral were Carers Paige, Kelly, Kay, Lauren and Nurse Karen – and what a fabulous job they did too. Our ladies, gents and staff […]

27 Sep 2024

All Creatures Great & Small Welcome at Burscough

We love our furry friends here at Stocks Hall Burscough, from our Home cat Anna to our amazing staff and families bringing in family pets, it’s great having animals around This week however, we welcomed 2 goats, Buzz & Woody and a tortoise called George! WISH Activity Team Lead Colette said, “This week we were […]