News and Events from the Month of May

News | Events | 31/05/2021

May News and Events

We've had so much fun at Portobello Place, have a peek below at what we get up to in our lovely home:

John Gets Busy In The Garden

VE Day Celebrations at Portobello Place

Residents enjoyed an Oomph exercise session before celebrating VE Day with Enriching Communities, who hosted a wonderful wartime concert featuring Andy Quinn

Portobello Place Cocktail Party

Our resident's wishes came true today! Our Senior Carer Mihaela, an expert cocktail maker, made a delicious range of cocktails and mocktails for all to enjoy

Farewell Kathleen

In October 2020, Kathleen came to Portobello Place via a contract under the Discharge to Access contract. She loved it so much, she decided to stay, initially on respite, Kathleen converted to permanent. Kathleen's family lives in the North of England and made the decision to move closer to them. We are extremely sad to see Kathleen leave us, however, we wish her well in her next chapter.

Celebrating our Wonderful Portobello Place Nurses

Showing our appreciation for the fabulous, hardworking health care workers who support us here every day.

Activities for Mental Health Awareness Week at Portobello Place

Spending time with our furry friends to relieve stress. We did scarf fitness to some of our favourite tunes to release endorphins which promote better mental health! Don’t you worry the chicks have their lovely forever home lined up for when they leave us!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious at Portobello Place

We love settling down to a film at the Portobello Place in-house cinema

Taking a Trip Down Memory Lane

Residents spend the afternoon reminiscing, practising their old skills

Time For A Cuppa at Portobello Place

We Held a "Time For a Cuppa" event for UK Dementia today. Although we had some challenges it turned out to be a lovely afternoon. Thank You So much Deborah Bayliss Tracey Waller Mell Hames Morgan McCarthy and Laura for taking the time to bake such wonderful cakes for our Bake-off. And to all the staff and residents for supporting it.

Birthday Wishes for Brenda

Our Talented Resident, Jan

Here is our lovely resident Jan! Jan speaks 6 languages, plays grade 8 piano, was a high jump pro in her athletics club and achieved 3 university degrees! She’s one very special lady

Muriel's 102nd Birthday Celebrations

We are celebrating a very special occasion as one of our fabulous residents is 102 today.
Our fantastic chefs made a personalised 3-course meal that was picked by Muriel, and it was all her favourite dishes.
Our Kitchen team also prepared an amazing '102' cake for Muriel.
Wishing you Muriel the very best Birthday from all of us at Portobello Place