Residents and staff at Parksprings Care Home recently made up and delivered ‘High Tea Gift Boxes’ to local hospitals, police and fire stations to thank them for their help and support during the pandemic. 

Wishaw Hospital expressed their gratitude by sending Parksprings some hand-knitted hearts. Residents were able to pick 2 identical hearts of their choice, they get to keep one and send the other one to their loved ones or family.

This is an amazing initiative that allows residents and loved ones to think of each other during this difficult time. Positive messages have started to arrive from some families.

Residents and staff at Parksprings wanted to say a huge thank you to local key workers for their help and support. They made up and delivered 100 high tea boxes to local hospitals, police and fire stations using food donated from local communities.

Pictures show Janette Wilson (81) and Anne Kerr (74) who helped coloured the rainbow picture which went on the front of the high tea boxes.

Pictures show Helen Stewart (80) and Frances Carson (81) holding the boxes which were ready to be delivered.

Stand Together Glam Together was an online event that took place on 13^th June to raise money for NHS Charities Together and Scottish Care during the Coronavirus pandemic.

This day saw a number of different creatives come together to share make-up and beauty tutorials, Q and A’s. Viewers were also able to take part in raffles to win wonderful prizes. 

Erin Culley, the founder of Stand Together Glam Together said: 

“2020 has been a year we will never forget since Covid-19 came and turned our lives upside down. It has put tremendous stress on the NHS and care sectors which are needing our help.  

With most of us being separated from our families and friends and feeling like we have watched everything we can on Netflix I knew I wanted to do something to help – so I created Stand Together Glam Together! This was a make up, hair and beauty event with an amazing range of industry professionals doing tutorials, demos and Q&As to help raise money for NHS Charities Together and Scottish Care.  

We know that lockdown has affected a lot of people’s mental health so we wanted this event to be something fun, entertaining as well as educational to help people through as well as raise as much money as possible for our chosen charities.”

The event was a huge success and raised a total of £1,410, of which £674 was gifted to Scottish Care. The team at Scottish Care are absolutely delighted with this. We would like to thank Erin and all the creatives and people involved in Stand Together Glam Together for their generosity and for considering the care sector during these difficult times.

We will put these funds towards Coronavirus responses, including the Tech Device Network, PPE, 1-1 support to care providers, webinars and any guidance.

You can follow Stand Together Glam Together on Instagram @StandTogether_GlamTogether, where you can watch tutorials and videos from the event.

The Indigo Childcare Group has been working on an intergenerational programme – ‘Friendship Through the Ages’. As part of this, they recently dropped off a selection of artwork from their children and families to Cartvale Care Home.

Residents and the care home manager, Jean were really appreciative of the children’s work. Photos below show residents holding up the artwork to their windows, smiling and waving.

A representative from the Indigo Childcare Group said: 

“At The Indigo Childcare Group, we recognise the huge benefits of Intergenerational interaction. We are looking forward to working with Scottish Care through our ‘Friendship Through the Ages’ programme to provide engaging, exciting opportunities for two age groups to come together and create friendships.”

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!”

Stevenson’s website – https://stevensonsayr.co.uk/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/stevensons.ayr/

Instagram – @stevensons_ayr

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Thank you to HRM Homecare Services for sharing this interview with one of their care heroes – Lorraine. In this short clip, Lorraine talks about her experience being a care worker and why she loves her job.