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Update from Berenice Groves, Chair of the Trustees

We are very pleased that the government restrictions are slowly lifting to cautiously allow care home residents to enjoy outings and to receive family visitors. As you know our first priority at the Charlotte Straker Project has always been the safety and wellbeing of residents, colleagues and visitors.  With this in mind, we carefully follow guidance issued by Central Government, NHS, Public Health England and The Care Quality Commission in all relevant matters.

We are therefore delighted to be able to update our visiting policy in line with the latest Government guidance, to allow nominated family members to enter Charlotte Straker House to visit their loved ones . We know how desperately upsetting it has been not to be able to hold hands with your relatives so we are incredibly relieved that we are allowed to put steps in place to enable this to happen.

Please click on the link https://charlottestraker.org.uk/covid-19-update/ to read further information including new information documents, including a Frequently Asked Questions section about our current visiting policies.

For a more in depth look at the latest official policy please click here to visit the government website.

Pam and I would like to send our thanks to everyone for their understanding and patience. We are still very well aware of the risks associated with lifting some of these restrictions and you have our promise that we will carefully research all the new advice, and update our policies to ensure that your family members remain safe and well.

As ever, please don’t hesitate to contact the office on 01434 633 999 or click here to email if you would like to discuss any matter in relation to the precautions we are putting in place.

Berenice Groves, Chair of the Trustees

We are keen to keep our residents as active as possible and as we focus on gearing activities up safely, our lovely members of staff Kerri and Alice (see photo above!) are ensuring that each resident is receiving one-to-one attention, activities and entertainment. They recently organised a football evening as our residents were keen to watch the Italy vs England match. Although we were all disappointed with the result, everyone had a great time eating the snacks and reminiscing about previous matches, including the 1966 result. Alice and Kerri will be available every day for general conversations, puzzles, reading, writing, manicures etc as well as arranging smaller group activities. 

Stephen Prandle, Chairman of the Lions of Tynedale visited Charlotte Straker House last week to meet with Angela Jones (Chair of the Fundraising Committee) to present our charity with a cheque for £250.

The Lions have always been a staunch supporter of the Charlotte Straker Project and we’re delighted with this recent donation, which will be put towards essential new furnishings in our Respite Care Room.

Our Respite Care Room costs £52,885 per annum and is completely funded through charitable grants and donations. It is in almost constant use as it offers free of charge short term respite care to those who need 24 hour nursing care.

Stephen commented, “We are really pleased that the Tynedale Lions are able to help Charlotte Straker, especially as their respite care is an important core service in the local community.”

Angela Jones added, “Thank you again to Stephen and the Lions – their cheque will be put to very good use, and we are very grateful for their continuing support.”