This week is Championing Social Care Open Week. A week in which care homes up and down the country fling open their doors and welcome in members of the local community and anyone who is interested to find out a little more about the realities of living or working in a care home.

At Priors we pride ourselves, not just on first class care and dining but on our lifestyle schedule. The monthly schedule is resident led and created to include the hobbies and passions of all who choose to live with us with a couple of surprises thrown in for good measure.

For our open day we wanted to organise a day that demonstrated our out of the box thinking and would appeal to all ages. Residents and team members put their thinking caps on and came up with “The Greatest Showaround” do you see what we did there?

We will be hosting a circus themed day, combining a fun experience with circus style snacks and drinks, games, and entertainment, it is going to be amazing.

We have spent a great deal of our time this week preparing, there is a lot to do if we want to transform our car park into a big top. We’ve crafted, painted, cut, and glued, it’s been a lot of fun. There has been much reminiscing about visits to the circus as children and then again taking our own offspring along, it’s been a lovely stroll down memory lane for all of us.

The Care Home Open Week is a fabulous tool for increasing awareness about our lives here but at Priors you don’t have to wait for the next big event, give us a call and pop along to see us, we’d love to show you around.