Thank you to the trustees from the Ray Wind Farm and the Barbour Foundation who have each granted £5,000 towards our Respite Care Bed service. We are so grateful to their support, especially as fundraising has been so difficult during the Covid pandemic. Our bed has been absolutely essential to carers and their relatives in the local community over the past twelve months.
Joy celebrated her 99th birthday last week. Joy is an absolute star in Charlotte Straker, is always chatty and cheerful and loves to take a walk every day to keep fit and well. She enjoyed a visit from her daughter, her home made special chocolate cake and birthday presents. She sent a lovely card afterwards to thank the staff and said “thank you for remembering my birthday and making it a special day”.
Even though we’re currently in the middle of a lockdown it didn’t stop our staff spreading joy and happiness this Christmas. Our care staff ensured that every single resident was bought a special present to open on Christmas Day and you can see on their faces how much they appreciated their gifts. The Christmas dinner with all the trimmings was successfully served and enjoyed (socially distanced) and our team of kitchen staff had the brilliant idea of providing a Christmas tea in a specially decorated package filled with all sorts of delicious treats. We made sure that we spread as much Christmas joy as possible and every resident felt included.
Happy New Year to you all from our residents and wonderful staff team!
The Charlotte Straker Project
Charlotte Straker, Cookson Close
Corbridge, NE45 5HB
01434 633999
office@charlottestraker.org.uk
