Celebrating harvest festival

Here at Hungerford Care Home, we’ve been celebrating this year’s harvest festival with an array of fun-filled activities.

Residents created some beautiful art for our harvest display and enjoyed making bread to accompany our special harvest lunch which included traditional dishes like honey-baked gammon with poached plums, fidget pie and toffee & apple cake.

After lunch, we sang some of our favourite hymns including ‘We Plough the Fields and Scatter’ and ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’.

Team member Sarah shared her experiences of living on a farm and encouraged residents to reminisce about how they celebrated Harvest Festivals in the past over a cuppa and a slice of the most amazing harvest cake made by our home manager Ronnie.

Resident Elizabeth said, “I loved the bread making, it reminded me of the old times. This is what I was brought up with, doing and making things.” And resident Audrey added, “Thank you for putting in so much effort to make this day so special for us.”

Magic Moments Club Coordinator Sarah said, “What a wonderful time we’ve all had celebrating the harvest. We are also delighted to be able to support our local food bank at this time - huge thanks to everyone who donated items to help those in our local community.”

At Hungerford, we believe in living life to the full. That’s why we’re passionate about creating vibrant, stimulating activities that will help our residents to love every day. We call them ‘Magic Moments’.

Every brighterkind home now has a Magic Moments Club which provides a vast range of activities and fun things to do that are open to all of our residents.

The idea behind Magic Moments is that just because someone moves into a care home doesn't mean that the things they love doing should suddenly stop – quite the contrary, we believe our residents should have the opportunity to love every day, by doing the things that they have always loved as well as trying new things along the way.

Hungerford Care Home is located in Hungerford Newtown, Berkshire and provides nursing care, dementia care, palliative care and respite care.

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