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A South West funeral venue has engaged the services of a professional cameraman to provide live streaming services to grieving families during the national lockdown.
The new site manager of Sedgemoor Crematorium, near Bridgwater, said she believes she has found her true vocation.
Mama Bear’s Day Nursery & Pre-School group has announced the appointment of a new Managing Director marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the business.
With most group singing sessions still unavailable to most of the population, residents in a Bridgwater care home are among the lucky few who are able to enjoy a communal sing-song and all the feel-good benefits associated with it.
Staff and families of residents at dementia care home Butterfly Lodge in St Budeaux, Plymouth, have been coming together to collect items for Plymouth Foodbank.
A Bristol funeral directors has introduced a flexible way of working to help support families during the coronavirus pandemic.
The activities team at a Wellington dementia care home made the most of National Care Worker Day on 19 February, both to celebrate the extraordinary efforts of colleagues over the past 12 challenging months, and also to provide an inspiring talking point for residents who have themselves worked in the care sector.
Two Hampshire crematoria have donated a total of £10,000 to Southampton Hospitals Charity in support of the Respiratory Care Fund at University Hospital Southampton which conducts vital research into sarcoidosis.
A mum from St Budeaux is celebrating 20 years service as a nursery practitioner with Mama Bear’s Day Nursery & Pre-School.
Discovering that many more plums are grown in Romania than the UK was a surprise to residents of a Wellington dementia care home – one surprise among many in store for them during a recent Romania ‘theme’ day.
An activities co-ordinator with South-West base dementia care provider Camelot Care has been using his previous experience of working with people with autism to highlight the importance of communicating even more carefully than usual with residents during lockdown.
Three local charities and organisations have been given donations totalling more than £7,500 by Sedgemoor Crematorium, which it raised as part of its metal recycling scheme.
The staff of a Wellington fish and chip shop have won praise for their helpful attitude from a local dementia care home for ‘making no bones’ about taking long and complicated orders and never complaining if the order has to be changed.
Residents at a Wellington care home have voted to name their new pub bar The Windsor Arms in memory of actress Barbara Windsor who died last week.
Lawyers at national firm Clarke Willmott LLP have advised family-owned Quality Care Homes Ltd on its sale of Whitelodge Care Home in Fishponds, Bristol.
