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Spring Newsletter

   08th April, 2025

Welcome to our Spring 2025 Newsletter

 

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome all our new clients and carers who have joined us over the past few months. As a company, we extend our immense gratitude to all our incredible live-in carers who show such commitment and dedication to their clients. You enable our clients to remain proudly independent in their own homes, and your hard work is always appreciated.

Office Staff News


To start, we want to wish our Care Manager Bozena a huge congratulations for successfully completing her Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care.

She studied for this diploma alongside managing all the carers rosters, visiting clients and their families and many other responsibilities that come with her full-time role.

We are very proud of her accomplishments and feel lucky to have her as a part of our Arbour team.


Our Operations Manager, Alex, has been working closely with the Surrey County Council to volunteer as an Information Champion for Dementia.

This new dementia-friendly alliance meets monthly to share ideas to support families living with dementia. This is a particular passion of Alex’s, both personally and professionally.

If you would like any further information or support, please give her a call. Dementia Awareness week will run between 19th-25th May, and Alex will be sure to share local events with you.

 

Enrichment Program

Jane Vincent joined our team in November, initially as our recruitment administrator. She has now developed her role to include launching and co-ordinating our exciting new Enrichment Program. The aim is to work together with our clients, their families, and their carers to build an enjoyable program of activity into our clients’ daily lives which will be written into their bespoke care plans.


As each client is unique, we will create programs of activity for individuals, that are both inclusive and varied. We aim to offer ideas and opportunities that will bring clients the benefits of mental,physical, emotional, cultural and social well-being. These activities will help clients feel a sense of pride in their achievements, develop self-confidence, and maintain independence. Jane will be arranging visits to get to know you and provide you with resources, and we are aiming to arrange some group outings for later in the year.


We’d like you to meet Molly, the cockapoo. Along with David and Jane, their lovely dog Molly visits the office most days. Here she is sunning herself in front of the heater on a cold day! If your client would like Jane to bring Molly along to your enrichment visit, then please do let us know. She is very friendly, and many of you will have met her enjoying all the attention at our Christmas party.

Sunflower Growing Competition

Some of you will have received a packet of sunflower seeds in your Christmas hamper. If you didn’t, please let us know and this can be amended. They were kindly donated by West Horsley Place, who sow a huge sunflower field annually to raise money for charity. Now is the time to sow your seeds in a pot inside, then move them outside when the weather gets warmer. We would love to see photos of your sunflowers this summer, the office staff are taking part too! There will be prizes for the most impressive sunflowers grown.

Upcoming dates for your diary

After the huge success of our Christmas party, we are excited to announce that Arbour Companions & Care will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary this summer with another party! Thank you all for making our company what it is today.

 

Please save the date for our Afternoon Tea celebration on Thursday 10th July from    2-4pm at Bagshot Pavilion. Stefano will be entertaining you all again with his singing, guitar playing and hopefully will have many of you up dancing! A formal invitation will follow soon.

Local Community Events

Our fantastic office team will be hosting a stall at the following local village fetes this spring/summer. Please do come along for a chat and some refreshments. It was lovely to see so many of you last year.

  • BH Monday 5th May- Chobham Carnival
  • Saturday 14th June – Windlesham Fete
  • Saturday 21st June- Lightwater Village Fete


During Mental Health Awareness week (the 12th-18th of May), we will be raising awareness and funds by Wearing Green on Thursday 15th May. We will be donating to the Mental Health Foundation. We would love you to send us photos of you and your clients wearing green that day too for our website and social media pages to raise awareness for such a worthy cause.

And finally, we’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very lovely Easter. If you have any hot cross buns left, below is a delicious way of reinvigorating stale hot cross buns and makes for a very tasty breakfast!

Hot Cross Bun French Toast Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 100ml milk
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • knob of butter
  • 4 hot cross buns, halved
  • 4 tbsp Greek yoghurt
  • 2 bananas
  • 4 tbsp honey

Instructions

  1. Crack your eggs into a bowl. Then add the milk, caster sugar and cinnamon. Beat with a fork until you have a totally combined mixture.
  2. Pop a knob of butter in a large frying pan and heat it over a medium-high heat. Dip the hot cross buns in the egg mixture, turning so that all sides are coated.
  3. Place the hot cross buns in the frying pan a few at a time, frying for 2 mins on each side until golden. Serve with a dollop of Greek yoghurt, chopped banana and a drizzle of honey

 

We hope you enjoy our first newsletter, with best wishes and a Happy Easter from all of us in the Arbour Companions & Care team!

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