Rosemary Mount News

Rosemary Mount had a wonderful 4-day celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.  Whether inside or in the garden, not one day was any better than the other and 4 good days were had by all!

We were surprised to have a group of the local nursery children ring the bell and carry out a doorstep visit on World Book Day.  They came to say “hi” and left us a card and a lovely bunch of daffodils. We are all looking forward to Spring and being able to welcome everyone back […]

Meet Nada – she is applying her lipstick for the day. Nada is 100 years old and last summer she had Covid 19. Also we include some recent photos from Rosemary Mount over the festive period: celebrating Christmas, Yoda’s birthday and New Year’s Eve – a busy week!

At Rosemary Mount we recently had chats about friends and we wrote out some friendship poems.

We have a new activities table, an interactive touch table which is proving popular with both people who live here and people who work here! As we joined in our Praise, Prayer and Togetherness online service with our other Keychange communities, our chosen colour was turquoise.  Turquoise is a colour of hope. Since 8th March we have […]

The Keychange Centenary Awards were presented at each community this year.  We celebrated staff commitment and dedication at the end of a particularly challenging year.  At Rosemary Mount we celebrated this event on 10th December and Keychange CEO Phil Martin came to present the certificates.

On 30th October Rosemary Mount organised an All Things Bright and Beautiful Day and all communities across Keychange were invited to participate. It was a Fancy Dress event – “Wear anything bright: neon, gold, silver, sequins, sparkly, shiny, white, bold or diamonds if you have … socks, hair accessories, tie, whatever you have … No […]

We had a Harvest Festival Sing-Along, led by Tina. This was enjoyed by all the community, and included creative displays using vegetables that we have grown in our garden. There were also seasonal paintings by our people living in our Community decorating the room for our Harvest Festival. During September two people living with us […]

Our talented and creative activities lady Mia created the backdrop for our 1960s Photoshoot and Sing-Along.  Her young daughter also helped her make the amazing campervan.  Everyone’s wellbeing and mental health was really boosted from just about 2 hours of fun either side of lunch. 

A small selection of photographs representing little things which have made a huge difference to our community during the current crisis.

This year we are all celebrating Keychange 1920 – 2020, and at Rosemary Mount we have our own centenarian – Dorothy.  She is seen here being supported by Kim doing a painting. Dorothy said it reminded her of her dog Prince. We remembered what fashions were like 100 years ago by having a 1920s photoshoot. […]