Residents and staff at Southlands Care Home have been celebrating this week, as the recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission marked the home as GOOD across the board. The report reads, “People felt safe, and well looked after. All areas were clean, tidy and there was sufficient cleaning taking place to keep people safe…
The residents at Southlands have been enjoying daily activities with Lynn, the new Activity Coordinator. Lynn is getting to know all the residents, their likes and dislikes as well as their abilities. Often residents surprise her but having worked in care for many years, she’s always delighted when someone does something they thought they couldn’t…
Southlands was the proud winner of the East Riding Burlington Care Halloween cake competition judged by Andrew Hoggard from a strong field of competitors. Foresters Lodge took a close 2nd place … … and The Limes came in 3rd place. Just missing the placements but with fabulous entries were Bessingby Hall (we loved those teeth)!…
We had some great fun at our homes this halloween … and the cakes tasted just as good as they look!
Our Southlands residents are taking part in two projects run by Big-Ideas, an organisation that delivers community and education projects. Elaine, Activity Coordinator at Southlands has been allocated a small amount of funding to purchase resources for the projects. The projects are Tull100 – to commemorate the achievements of Walter Tull, the first man of…
Southlands is entering into the spirit of Halloween raising monies for the Residents Fund by selling pumpkins grown on the manure heap of pony Headway; owned by our Administrator Alison (pictured left, with our witch lady, right, in the main entrance at Southlands): To date we have raised £66.50 with around half the pumpkins finding…
Alison, our administrator at Southlands, won first prize for her needlework at Hutton Cranswick Village Show on Sunday 29th July 2018. The embroidery is of the lost Hull trawlers St Romanus, Kingston Peridot, Ross Cleveland and the Gaul. Alison said “It didn’t take long to do, maybe 2 or 3 months; I always have a…
Here at Southlands we are currently strengthening our relationships within the village in order to raise our profile and engage with local groups. We are also developing our activities programme to enable our residents to further build relationships within the community, for example with the local primary school. As part of these initiatives we entered…