Friary Care

31/12/2025

What a truly heart-warming Christmas dinner party spent with our wonderful residents and their families 🎄✨
The afternoon was filled with festive cheer as everyone came together to enjoy a delicious three-course meal, lovely music, plenty of laughter, and so many special moments shared around the table.

It was so special to see residents surrounded by their loved ones, smiling, chatting, and soaking in the joy of the season. The room was full of happiness, warmth, and togetherness, and we ended the celebration in the most perfect way by singing Christmas carols together 🎶❤️

A huge thank you to our staff for all the hard work, care, and dedication that went into making the day so special, and to our families for joining us and sharing such a meaningful celebration with us.

Days like today remind us how important these moments are — creating memories and celebrating Christmas as one big community. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make this day so memorable. 🎄✨

30/12/2025

Ho ho ho! What a wonderful time of year to enjoy a Christmas party with family and friends, here at Friary House !

Once again we have had a day to remember, Christmas 2025 truly has happened with a bang! Our Christmas lunch party cooked by our carers, for all of the Friary House residents and their families, was absolutely delicious, and some really beautiful memories were made by all.

We would like to thank St. Aldhelm's once again for letting us hire out their hall and we would also like to thank Connie Lee Cline for performing an amazing fun pack afternoon. The music and singing and dancing definitely got us all in the mood we all felt the need to get up and have a Friary Care party!

All in all, an incredible time was had by all. It truly was a time for all our residents and their families to sit back, let the good times roll, and most of all be merry!

On behalf of all of us at Friary Care we hope you had a Merry Christmas and wish you all a Happy New Year!
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24/12/2025

Peter and Jo would to thank everyone who have supported friarycare this year, we appreciate very much💕

Happy Christmas

23/12/2025

The Salvation Army made an amazing visit to Friary Care!

Friary Care would like to say a big thank you to the Salvation Army for coming into the home and providing an incredible musical performance and sing song! The residents had an absolutely wonderful evening singing along to some of their festive favourites!

We can’t thank you enough for such a fantastic evening. From everyone here at Friary Care, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!



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18/12/2025

01/12/2025

Christmas has come early at Friary Care!

Friary Care today wanted to share a fun afternoon with our amazing residents and their families. Residents’ children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren had a beautiful pre-Christmas party together!

We also had the fabulous Smartie Pants come in to the home to entertain us. We had balloon-making, singing, magical cake-making, and lots of dancing!

Overall Friary House residents had an absolutely amazing time. We had lots of amazing food, lots of laughs, and also a very lovely goodie bag full of lots of goodies!

We so very much enjoyed Saturday afternoon making memories that will last a lifetime!

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12/11/2025

Friary Care came together for Armistice Day.

Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) was observed by everyone here at Friary Care as we want to show our sombre respect and gratitude for the countless many who sacrificed so much in conflicts across the world.

To mark this occasion we have been proudly displaying our poppies and have decorated the homes to suit. Our decorations included a dress of poppies to symbolise the sacrifices both men and women have made over the years, and also pictures of poppies in our hands to symbolise how close those brave souls are to our residents. This year we're also proudly displaying and wearing forget-me-nots, on top of poppies, as forget-me-nots symbolise the sacrifices returning injured soldiers have made - in body, blood, and limb.

As many others did, we had two minutes of silence in order to commemorate all of those valiant souls who will forever be in our hearts. Those who could stand, stood proudly as a sign of respect, and we also raised a glass to all those affected by conflicts, and in particular we saluted those who have been, or still are, in our care.

We then enjoyed a wonderful afternoon full of music by the wonderful Olivia.

We Shall Remember 🫶💜🌈🦋🐈‍⬛😘💙

07/10/2025

Friary Care had a great day raising money for the Macmillan Coffee Morning with our family and friends!

Lots of delicious cakes were made by Friary Care staff and enjoyed by residents, our residents' families and friends, and also our incredible health care professionals. These amazing treats were had whilst having a chat over coffee, surrounded by lovely decorations made by our own residents. And even though we had lots of cake we also made room for a very tasty chippy-tea!

The grand total raised was over £382.17! We are so proud to raise this money for Macmillan who do so many things to help people living with cancer. An amazing donation for such an amazing cause, due to an absolutely amazing day!

We at Friary Care want to say a massive thank you to our superb staff for your continued hard work (and also for providing delicious cakes for the day) but also to everyone who bought cakes and supported such an important cause!

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03/10/2025

We are delighted to share that our recent Macmillan Coffee Morning here at the home was a huge success!

Residents, families, and staff all came together to enjoy a wonderful morning filled with delicious cakes, sweet treats, and plenty of cups of coffee. Fun activities such as our raffle and the “How Many Coffee Cups” guessing game brought lots of smiles and laughter throughout the day.

It was heart-warming to see residents’ families joining in, making the morning extra special with their support and company. Thanks to everyone’s generosity, we are proud to announce that we raised an amazing £160 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

A big thank you goes out to all who baked, donated, and joined us – your kindness and community spirit made the event so memorable. Together, we’ve helped to support the wonderful work Macmillan do for those affected by cancer

27/09/2025

We're celebrating National Day of Arts in Care Homes here at Friary Care!

The National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) champions arts in care homes, supporting a diverse range of creative activities. They promote these activities all year around but also host a special day each year, and this year their theme is 'Going Green'!

This year's theme, Going Green, means celebrating creativity through sustainability. Friary Care residents decided that with Autumn being upon us we were going to put our creative skills to the test by making some artistic trees.

And as we're 'Going Green' we made our tree with using different types of environmentally friendly sourced materials. These included: tree bark; pinecones, conkers, apples, different shades of green trigs, glitter, and some spare wall paper.

The residents all had a different type of vision and oh boy did we all have fun and lots of laughter by trying to make their vision a reality, so much fun was had by all. It was so nice to see staff and residents and families pull together and see all our efforts come together!

What a lovely day we had being artists for the day!

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12/09/2025

☕🍰 Join Us for a Macmillan Coffee Morning! 🍰☕

We’re hosting a Macmillan Coffee Morning at 10:30am on Friday 26th September at Kingsley Court and Monday 29th September at Friary House we’d love to see as many of you there as possible! 💚

Come along for a cuppa, a chat, and some delicious homemade cakes — all while helping raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, an amazing charity that does so much for people affected by cancer

Everyone is welcome — the more the merrier!

📅 Dates
Friday 26th September Kingsley court
Monday 29th September Friary House.
💚 Cause: Macmillan Cancer Support

11/09/2025

Wow, what a day! Friary Care has gone to the Sea Life Centre!

Our residents started the day by enjoying beautiful fresh air as we walked to the Sea Life Centre - it was so nice to enjoy the sun shining down on us as we left the home. And then we (staff, residents, and family members) lined up to go inside, ready and eager to have a day to remember!

We had such an amazing day! We saw so many captivating different species of fishes, sharks, otters, penguins, and more! We all had a fantastic sing-song, followed by a lovely picnic with staff and family members, we even had family members from some of very much loved previous residents volunteering and overall helping to make the day as magical as possible. This was so very nice, and it was this that allowed us to make so many new and beautiful memories.

Once we got back to the home, we finished off the day with a good old fashioned cup of tea and a glass of wine. All in all, we had such an amazing time and can't wait for the next lovely day out here at Friary Care!

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