31/12/2025
As this year's competition it's about creating moments that matter through person centred experiences, the team at Bowerfield Court hosted "A world of winter treats" a baking festival which involved creativity, connections, inclusivity, cultural diversity, and hug on a plate with a mind, body, and soul focus without forgetting to have fun, what Christmas is all about. In this way to ensure that not only all members of our team got involved but the people living with us and families, we chose to make not 1 but 4 Christmas desserts inspired by global traditions and continents of the world.
The first team to take part was the office team formed by maintenance, lifestyle, admin, and management representing Asia with a Japanese strawberry sponge cake, the second team was domestics representing America with a Mexican 3 milks cake, the third team was the nurses with the support of carers representing Africa with a Nigerian Christmas fruit cake, and at last our hospitality team representing Europe with a French Yule log which was served on Christmas Day.
In order to give it a worldwide look we had an all around the world backdrop, each stand was decorated with traditional flags and items to represent each country and at each trial we had a special guest from our executive chef to our lifestyle regional manager, family members, and home manager Helen who looked forward to trying each cake.
Those living with us joined the celebrations and were the judges of this fun delicious bake-off, trying different flavours and combinations, as well as learning the story behind each dessert and its provenance. After each tasting session all voted from 1-5 for their favourite cake with the winning one being the office team with all 5s although at Court everyone is a winner as like Brian expressed "It's all about spending time together and enjoying the holidays eating lots of cake".
Thank you to EVERYONE who took part in making Christmas a little more special,
We hope you enjoy looking at our beautiful event as much as we did hosting it!
Happy New Year to all....