A Harvest Festival held at HC-One’s Springfield House Care Home in Low Fell, Gateshead, helped Residents to meet new people, make friends and create meaningful moments in the company of others.
The event was also in support of Silver Sunday, which helps combat loneliness within the community and helps to increase happiness and wellbeing.
Springfield House welcomed members of the local community to mark the start of the autumn season on Friday 5th October with autumnal decorations throughout the home and a homemade scarecrow. Residents created a fruit and vegetable hamper as a prize for the raffle, which raised £150 for the Resident’s comfort fund.
Residents and staff donated food items and distributed the harvest collection to a local homeless soup kitchen, St Peter’s.
Trish Starr, Home Manager at HC-One’s Springfield House Care Home commented:
“Combining Silver Sunday and Harvest festival gave Residents the opportunity to get to know people in the community and to build relationships with each other.
“The event was a great success.”
Silver Sunday celebrates older people and helps to combat loneliness, while Harvest Festival celebrates food that’s grown and produced on England’s home soil.