Avery were delighted to welcome South Lodge, our first Leicester care home, its residents and staff into the Avery family of care homes in April 2018.
Situated just off the London Road, which joins Leicester with Market Harborough, in the leafy conservation area of Stoneygate, South Lodge’s wonderful position means our community is within the easy reach of the shops, churches and the city centre.
Our Leicester care home offers exceptional 24 hour residential and nursing care for both individuals and couples and has outstanding facilities and services, all set within our comfortable, supportive care community. South Lodge has a choice of 99 beautiful private apartments that vary from studios through to one and two bedrooms suites all with their own wet room style bathroom and some with kitchenettes ensuring our residents can remain as independent as they wish.
We also offer a separate dementia area comprising of 17 suites, each with an en-suite wet room. Comfortable, open plan naturally lit and staffed by specially trained staff, it offers unique support for those residents requiring specialist dementia care giving each and every resident the unique support they may need.
Ours is a supportive, companionable community. We use technology to support our residents to connect with family near and far, and social engagements, as well as mental and physical activity to keep us all active and in the best of spirits.
To discuss your next move whether, it is some advice you are after or perhaps would like to visit and chat with some of our residents, then call Penny Tilley our Manager on 0116 274 8000.
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Our residents have their say at South Lodge with the monthly residents meeting to decide on the activities they wish to see in the upcoming months.
Our gardening club with green house and raised flower beds offer those with green fingers the chance to still continue their hobby whilst our dedicated activities team offer a varied program. These include outings to local places of interest, visiting speakers and entertainers, pottery, art, one to one activities and garden walks in our gorgeous gardens which includes a woodland walk.
A local nursery school visit on a monthly basis and enjoy a morning in our activities room whereby children and residents alike play games, quizzes and even the occasional visit from Alfie the miniature pony! We are a supportive and companionable Leicester care home. We also host regular Parkinson’s group meetings with the local Parkinson’s Society and Gents Lunch Club whereby our male residents enjoy a pie and pint!
Our exceptionally well equipped home has a choice of dining experience, our residents and their families can dine in either our beautifully designed restaurant, in their apartment or our bistro for a more casual experience. We have a number of quiet cosy lounges, a bistro café which is ideal for that cup of coffee with friends, a well-equipped library reading area, a hair salon, a therapy room and spa.
Welcome to the Spring 2019 edition of Welcome Home, Avery Healthcare’s in-house magazine for all of our residents, staff, their families and friends and for everyone involved with our leading care homes and independent living residencies nationwide. All of our homes work hard to celebrate the lives of our residents and to connect them with their past through Life Stories and our sector-leading ReConnect…
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Avery Healthcare is proud to have been voted one of the top 20 care providers in the Large Provider category of Carehome.co.uk’s 2019 Care Home industry awards. The Large Provider category has 116 qualified operators (with 20 or more homes) and the Avery score of 9.5 out of 10 (from over 1,500 reviews) is something…
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A Happy New Year to you all and welcome to the Winter 2018/19 edition of Welcome Home, Avery Healthcare’s in-house magazine for all of our residents, staff, their families and friends and for everyone involved with our leading care homes and independent living residencies nationwide. Fun and activities at all of our Avery homes continued apace last Autumn, with many great events and fundraising, plus…
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At the glittering awards ceremony for the Great British Care Awards regional finals in London, we are very proud to announce our care home Manager at Birchwood Grange, Mark Bird, won the Home Care Registered Manager Award for 2018! Mark was nominated as a surprise by his team for the award and outshone the competition.…
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We were so excited to invite Avery Ambassador Sherrie Hewson to our Afternoon Tea event at Crispin Court Care Home on the 24th September. Sherrie took the time to speak with all residents and posed for photographs with residents, visitors and families. Everyone at Crispin Court appreciated how she also spoke to all the staff…
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Welcome to the autumn issue of Welcome Home – Avery Healthcare’s in-house magazine for our residents, staff, families and friends and everyone involved with our care homes nationwide. At Avery we had a great summer, the warmest and sunniest for several decades, with the homes helping our residents spend more of their time outside in the gardens with summer fêtes…
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We’re very proud to announce that Avonmere Care Home has recently achieved a Good In All Categories rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in our first unannounced inspection. As an addition, we have also been recognised by Knight Frank with an entry into their 2019 Luxury Care Home Guide. The CQC grades services delivered…
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We are delighted to announce that Avery Healthcare has been shortlisted as finalists in no less than four categories that they entered in the 2018 LaingBuisson Care Sector Awards. LaingBuisson is an UK healthcare consultancy, based in London, that provides insights, data and analysis of health and social care market structures, policy and strategy. The LaingBuisson Awards…
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Our intrepid roving reporter, John Griff, the man behind the Avery Archive recordings, recently caught up with Sherrie Hewson, Avery’s new Ambassador, for a quick chat about her early impressions of the care company and how she was finding working with us. In a short and informal conversation Sherries shares her views on Avery, the…
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Avery Healthcare is delighted to announce that stage and TV actress and media personality Sherrie Hewson has been appointed as the Ambassador for our care home group! Now passionately concerned about the senior adult social sector, following on from her own mother’s experience of being in care, she is very interested in the Avery quality…
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In a further instalment Robert Richardson from the north-east recounts aspects of what has been a fascinating life. As part of our continuing resident storytelling archive, Robert talks about his passion for model boat building.
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Alder House Care Home in Nuthall recently invited Avery Ambassador Sherrie Hewson to a Medieval themed open day, joint with Acer Court Care Home. Both homes prepared for the event by decorating with medieval themed banners, balloons and props. Our staff and some residents even dressed up in fancy dress for the event as well! The…
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After a recent inspection by our Local Authority, Acer Court Care Home in Nuthall, Nottingham, are happy to announce we have been awarded a five-star Quality Banding from the Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) for the second consecutive year. The report summarised that Acer Court staff are respectful and sensitive when supporting residents, whilst also being…
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Alder House Care Home in Nuthall, Nottingham, is proud to announce we have been awarded a five star quality banding for the second year running from our Local Authority after a recent inspection completed by Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC). The NCC found that we met high standards throughout all of their five categories, highlighting that…
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May’s issue of Grapevine includes an interview with retired veterinary surgeon Bryan Martin and his wife and Renee, two of our most recent residents at Loxley Park. Bryan and Renee came to Sheffield in 1958 when Bryan went into partnership with vet Charles Hallam and became a senior partner in the Hallam & Martin Veterinary Centre on…
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Hawthorns Care Home in Aldridge, West Midlands, is passionate about utilising every inch of space in their fabulous home. Under new Home Manager, Kate Gilligan, the home is blossoming this spring with fresh new initiatives, including a resident-led shop, a new volunteering programme and revitalising their rooftop garden. With so much going on, it’s no surprise as to why they have been…
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Transitioning from one role to another requires the development of new skills and capabilities in a short timespan to meet new or increased responsibilities. Avery’s ethos is to actively encourage all its employees to grow their abilities to take on new roles as part of their continuous professional development, supported by comprehensive training programmes, experienced mentors, qualified trainers…
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Whether it is family and friends, local organisations or potential customers, we love to use our online channels to connect with our various communities. Social media platforms are, as the title suggests, social; sharing thoughts, feelings and stories online is incredibly important, but the best posts online inspire an emotional reaction and promote a two-way conversation that connects people. Facebook is also…
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There are great events and dates that all our homes love to celebrate, and they all come up with different and creative Facebook posts to show how they got involved with their residents. A recent example of this was Pancake Day, where our homes made pancake posts in their shroves. Although it crêped up on us quickly, here are…
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Volunteering and giving service is a great British tradition and at Avery we are privileged to have almost 100 Attend volunteers who share their time and talents with residents in our homes. We work closely with Attend, a long-established UK charity that represents over 29,000 volunteers who give their time in health and social care. Attend volunteers receive a high standard…
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Avery Healthcare takes pride in how we support different cultures in our homes, an example being in how we prepare our foods and adapt our menus to meet the cultural needs of specific resident groups, whether they are Afro-Caribbean, Indian, Middle-Eastern or Southern European. We also acknowledge the dietary requirements of different religious groups, such as Hindus, Jews…
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We recently travelled to the Netherlands to experience two care facilities with a very different way of supporting people with dementia. Accompanied by Rachel Bisiker, Project Manager for Estates in Avery, we braved the bright but very cold weather to visit two leading and world-class care locations. De Hogeweyk and Vivium Torendael are known as Dementia Villages where people with moderate…
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Following the successful launch of the Employee Engagement survey in January this year, we were excited to launch our Resident & Family Survey on 18th March 2019. This on-line survey will be issued to 14 Avery homes at a time on a quarterly basis and will be open for a month on each issue. As with the Employee Survey, it is managed by survey experts People Insight; all…
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