League of Mercy Award for Oxted volunteer
Abbeyfield Volunteer Joan Caden has been given a national award for her services to volunteering with elderly people in the county. Oxted resident Joan, was honoured with a League of Mercy medal for her work with national housing.
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Abbeyfield Joins the Happy List
The Independent on Sunday newspaper recently published the ‘Happy List’, celebrating those Britons who have “given back, enhanced the lives of others and realised that in an acquisitive society there's a crying need for values other than mere materialism”.
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Staveley House, Official opening of Bechshaw Wing
The Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria, Mr James Cropper, performed the official opening ceremony on Tuesday 18th March by unveiling a commemorative plaque in the entrance to the new Bechshaw Wing at Staveley House in Cumbria.
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Abbeyfield Society Search For Chief Executive Officer
The search for the new Chief Executive Officer of The Abbeyfield Society and Abbeyfield UK began on Sunday, 24th February with an advertisement in the Sunday Times and then in the Guardian on Wednesday 27th February.
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Celebrations at Abbeyfield in Alfriston
Residents, staff and volunteers were joined by well wishers including Lady Edna Healey, to celebrate the opening of the new conservatory at the Abbeyfield house in Alfriston, East Sussex.
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Abbeyfield Quorn wins Design Award
The Leicestershire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England recently announced the winners of its 2007 design awards. The Mary Holloway Garden Room Extension at Abbeyfield House in Quorn won a commended nomination in the category 'Building or group of buildings within an urban or rural area'.
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High Achievers at Horsted Keynes
Pictured here are several of the dedicated and happy band of staff based at the Abbeyfield Mid Sussex Society’s Westall House at Horsted Keynes. These staff have recently achieved passes in registered managers’ awards, NVQ levels 2-3 in care, chef and domestics awards and attended an award ceremony at Westall House on 6th December with an appreciative audience of residents and members of the Westall House Committee.
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Clifton House, Isle of Wight Wins first Prize in Isle Of Wight Healthy Eating Alliance Awards 2007
Abbeyfield UK’s Clifton House on the Isle of Wight took first prize in the awards celebrating best practice and policy in healthy eating in a variety of settings across the Isle of Wight. The winners were announced at a Celebration Event at the Royal London Yacht Club in Cowes on 30 November and Lois Rogers from Clifton House collected the award on behalf of Abbeyfield UK.
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Abbeyfield is saddened to announce the death of Susan Carr-Gomm
The Abbeyfield Society is, wife of Abbeyfield’s founder, Richard Carr-Gomm. Susan died after a very short illness at the end of last month. Married in October, 1957,Richard describes Susan in his 2004 autobiography, ‘All Things Considered’ as follows: “Brown haired tall and attractive, Susan was a natural with all people and everyone felt at ease with her.
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