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.
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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Friday 13th – unlucky for some? Not for the Avery teams that took part in the Care Workers Charity Three Peaks Challenge! Three staff from Amarna House Care Home in York joined five staff from Avery Group Support Centre for the challenge on 13th July, and soon discovered that the trek was much more demanding than…
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The hard work and dedication by staff throughout the Avery group has been recognised yet again at the national Care Home Awards for 2018, where we have come away as winners in four important categories. The prestigious national award ceremony, run by Care Home Management, were held at the Health+ Care Show at London’s ExCel…
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When a Person Develops Dementia Dementia is a broad term that is used to describe a condition where there is an ongoing and generally irreversible decline of the brain and its abilities. At the present time, dementia is not curable. Although medication is available to slow the symptoms of the disease, these are not suitable…
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Acacia Mews Care Home in Hatfield welcomed Avery Ambassador, Sherrie Hewson, to our Champagne and Canapés Open Day on Thursday 14th February. To embrace the Valentine’s Day theme, we decorated the home with a giant love heart on the entrance doors and the tables were decorated using wooden love hearts that were painted and decorated…
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“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” It’s not every day you meet your best friend from 80 years ago, but our residents are full of surprises. Eileen Gill came into Crispin Court Care Home for a short respite stay in January. Whilst here, she thought she recognised…
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Earlier this month, Pemberley House was delighted to welcome Avery Ambassador, stage and TV actress Sherrie Hewson to our Polish Coffee Morning. Despite the snowy weather outside, Sherrie was warmly welcomed into the home by Alison Sweetman, our Deputy Manager, and Chloe Webb, our Well-Being Coordinator. We decided to embrace a Polish theme for our…
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Many employees at Avery make a real difference in people’s lives. Some employees have worked at a home for over 20 years, some demonstrate strong leadership and some staff save the day when break-ins or floods happen. In February, Steve Tatler, Head Chef at Grove Park Care Home, Leeds, received a Managing Directors Award from…
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The Care Workers Charity (CWC) recently hosted its Awards for 2018, an inaugural ceremony to recognise those who have played a key part in the recent re-emergence of the charity and whose particular contribution merits acknowledgement. Avery is very proud to have been awarded Best Fundraising Campaign, with Commercial Director Mark Danis receiving the award…
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Avery Ambassador, Sherrie Hewson, was the special guest at Derby Heights Care Home’s Spanish Open Day on Friday 25th January. Sherrie was welcomed to the home by Patricia Partington, Avery’s relative’s Ambassador, who presented her with a basket of flowers. We were also tipped off that Sherrie liked Malteasers and Earl Grey tea so we…
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Grove Park Care Home in Leeds, in collaboration with the Continuous Advancement Programme (CAP) Awards, are delighted to announce that we have received a Silver Catering Award alongside a Gold Housekeeping Award! The CAP Awards look at the levels of Catering and Housekeeping within a business, and reward and promote high-quality standards. A series of…
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On Wednesday 23rd January, Loxley Park Assisted Living welcomed Avery Ambassador Sherrie Hewson to their 1950s extravaganza! To prepare for the event, residents made bunting and table decorations to go in the lounge. The rest of the home was decorated as a 1950s diner, with the bistro being set up for refreshments where we served…
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Avery Ambassador Sherrie Hewson was recently invited to our Winter Wonderland Grand Opening at Birchmere Mews Care Home in Solihull, where we had plenty of fun getting into the festive spirit! Residents from both floors joined together for our Winter Wonderland opening, which was celebrated on the Blythe Suite located on the ground floor. We…
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Birchmere House Care Home, Solihull, had the pleasure of welcoming Avery Ambassador Sherrie Hewson to our Christmas Open Day. We had an amazing Christmas Party; the home was decorated with fake snow, blow horns and party poppers, Disney Frozen themed balloons and a variety of Christmas hats! Sherrie was welcomed into the home with a…
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Kim Young is the Home Manager at Clare Court Care Home and her Regional Manager and colleagues felt she had demonstrated really strong leadership, transforming staff performance and morale at the home, as seen in Clare Court’s latest CQC inspection results. Kim has also truly embraced the implementation of the Life Story boards; when Jo Crossland, Head of Dementia Care, visited the home, she was very impressed by Kim’s work,…
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Stephanie Bradley celebrated 20 years loyal service on 20th September and was delighted to receive a beautifully engraved glass vase as a big thank you from Managing Director John Strowbridge. Stephanie is a Laundry Assistant at Clayton Manor in Congleton, and known to be a quiet, modest person, so she was very surprised to find herself at the centre of attention…
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