Residents at Arran View Bupa Care Home in Ayrshire has enjoyed a series of live musical performances from members of the community recently.

During lockdown, the staff and residents at Arran View have been working hard to keep spirits up, and making sure they followed social distancing procedure, they enjoyed live music from local singers and pipers.

To celebrate VE Day, local singer James Stirrat performed for the home, whilst the residents enjoyed afternoon tea to mark the occasion.

This performance was matched by one from Ciaran Sinclair, known as The Ayrshire Piper, who played outside to staff and residents whilst they danced in the garden and opened their windows to listen.

Completing the trio of events, Alan Anderson, another traditional local piper played for the home as the residents sampled some Scottish shortbread, whisky and sherry.

Speaking about the events, Carol Barr, General Manager said:

“It’s great to be able to lift spirits like this during lockdown. Everyone at the home really enjoyed the celebrations, and it’s amazing to enjoy live music from members of the community.”

One resident commented:

“It was a brilliant experience being able to listen to live music. Everyone at the home felt uplifted by the performances.”

Arran View Bupa Care Home is purpose-built and welcomes anyone in need of nursing or residential care. Residents are offered a full programme of regular and seasonal activities, as well as 24-hour access to highly trained medical and care staff.

Ian Savage, the CEO and Founder of SureCert – a Scottish Care Preferred Supplier – recently provided a donation of 1,000  free face visors to our care home members. They were delivered to Social Good Connect, a new partnership Scottish Care is working with who undertook all the logistics and delivery of the face visors, throughout the Dundee area.  Social Good Connect, whose recent launch was accelerated to help support during Covid-19, was created to offer a unique search and match function to enable employees to find volunteering opportunities and charities to access a new audience of skilled volunteers.

Ian Savage, CEO, SureCert, said:

“We are Preferred Suppliers to Scottish Care. Recently we won a major NHSx volunteering project for the care sector.  As part of this project, we came across some additional PPE and were delighted to put it to good use across the social care sector and got in touch with Scottish Care to help us do that”.

Caroline Mckenna, the CEO of Social Good Connect said:

“Working with Scottish Care has been a real privilege, we were delighted to help support the care sector and able to quickly search and match employee volunteers to deliver PPE to care organisations throughout Scotland.”

Karen Hall, the Manager of Skye View Care Home said:

“We were absolutely delighted to receive the donation of free face visors from SureCert and send a heartfelt thanks to Scottish Care for organising this.”

This week’s good news story is about a generous donation to Scottish Care staff and their families from local company, Stevensons Polishing and Upholstery of Ayr.

While on furlough Stevenson’s wanted to do their bit to help, so they decided to create handmade, fun and funky, washable cotton face masks to help keep everyone safe during the pandemic.

Company director Murray Stevenson shared why he felt it was important to give back.

“Scottish Care is a fantastic organisation, doing such good things to help support the care sector and the amazing key workers in Scottish care homes during this difficult time. It was a no-brainer that we wanted to do our little bit to help and we loved seeing such happy faces wearing our masks!”

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