Meadow Bank Care Home, run by HC-One, located in Bamber Bridge, Preston, welcomed visitors and guests from the local community to participate in this year’s Care Home Open Week celebrations from 24th - 30th June 2024, with HC-One’s main celebration events taking place during Care Home Open Weekend (28th – 30th June).
Meadow Bank delighted to open its doors to celebrate Care Home Open Week with residents, colleagues, friends, family, and the wider community.
Care Home Open Week is a national event hosted by Championing Social Care, designed to connect care homes with their local communities. The week provided care homes with the opportunity to showcase their range of services, provide tours of their facilities, and highlight the activities that are offered to residents.
The event is also a reminder to the homes’ neighbours that they are there if they need support and are regularly holding events open to members of the community. Most recently, the Clayton Brook Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts came to visit residents on Willow House community over the week to play games, listen to music, dance and chat together.
HC-One’s chosen theme for this year’s Care Home Open Week was ‘dancing together through the decades’. Throughout the week, residents, colleagues, families, and friends enjoyed a variety of fun-filled activities culminating in an end-of-week celebration at the home.
On Thursday 27th June, Meadow Bank Care Home hosted a variety of fun-filled activities, entertainment, and refreshments throughout the day which were enjoyed by all, including an amazing Elvis show. Staff, residents and relatives danced and sang the afternoon away, but the star of the show was Edna from Willow House community who sang and danced non-stop. Even Elvis asked if she was free as a backup dancer!
Bessie, who lives at Meadow Bank, remarked:
“Elvis was wonderful, and I am so glad I came to the show.”
Meadow Bank Care Home was decorated especially for the occasion and the celebration was a chance for everyone to come together as a community, and to learn more about life at the care home.
Visitors enjoyed learning from colleagues in the home about what a rewarding career in care looks like. They also found out about opportunities for community engagement and about the volunteering roles on offer designed to support their local care community.
Melanie Matthews, Receptionist at HC-One’s Meadow Bank Care Home, said:
“We were delighted to be able to open the doors of Meadow Bank care home again to welcome in our local community and bring everyone together to celebrate Care Home Open Week 2024. Everyone had an amazing time.
“We are proud to support Preston, and our Open Week celebrations provided a great opportunity to reconnect with our local community and to support community engagement which is so important to our residents, colleagues, and the local area.
“The week was also a chance for us to showcase what life at our care home is like, share career and volunteering opportunities, and remind our local community that our kind care teams, and extensive facilities are here for them if they ever need support.”