News and Activities

Luke Diamond, the bagpipe player, visited us over Christmas to offer some festive cheer in his Scottish finery.  Thanks, Luke, we all thoroughly enjoyed your visit. It was lovely to welcome Luke, he is a talented and very friendly chap!

On 20th December some of our residents went to the St Mary’s College Christmas Concert.  It was great fun with lots of entertainment and lovely food… a very sociable start to our Christmas this year! We all enjoyed the festivities…

Olive Primary School visited us last week and brought us some lovely gifts.  They also sang some Christmas Carol’s with our Residents.  It’s always lovely to receive visits from the local children and they bring a smile to everyone’s face.…

The Fine & Dandy Memory Workshop held a special Christmas sing-along for our residents.  As you can see, everyone enjoyed the festive atmosphere. We all enjoyed a festive sing-along!

St Mary’s Nursery visited yesterday and everyone had a jolly good time singing carols and meeting our special visitor, Santa. Linda really enjoyed meeting Santa!        

Congratulations to our registered Manager, Alenca, on passing her Moving & Handling Train the Trainer course… well done!

James, of Senior Fitness, is always a welcome visitor at Springfield Cottage. Our residents enjoy the friendly banter and competition with the added bonus of maintaining their mobility levels.

Amy and Colin both celebrated their birthdays this week. Everyone wished them well and we all enjoyed some lovely birthday cake with our tea! Colin enjoying his special day

Jean had a lovely birthday recently. She had a special cake and a buffet tea with her friends and family at Springfield.

We have a new ‘hydration station’ at Springfield Cottage. Our residents are very pleased with this addition to our Home – here is Jean helping herself to some refreshment.