Forest View
This morning we walked up the road to the local café for coffee, cake and a bit of fresh air.
Liv and Brian are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary today! Compliments to Jon the Chef, kitchen team and the lovely staff for making it so special.
Our Easter raffle and coffee and cake afternoon at Forest View.
Residents celebrated St Patrick's Day by drinking Guinness! For those that didnt like it, we had the choice of Prosecco, Carlsberg or Cider as well.
We also sampled some smoothies after our Swoove exercsie class as well.
Marilyn enjoying a visit on Saturday from her Son, Granddaughter and Great Granddaughter. Marilyn was very happy to get a photo of four generations together.
Peggy had a visit yesterday from her new Great, great granddaughter Nova, who is now Peggy's 35th grandchild!
The children from the local childminder came to visit us. The residents played catch with the balloons with the children and they sang some nursery rhymes.
We wanted to say a massive to thank you to Julie & Daisy, they have been dedicated and come in on there days off to support Forest View, as well as giving quality care to the residents!
All the residents at Forest view had an extra treat on Valentines of Fish and Chips!
Forest View Residents this Valentines speaking about the ones they love and writing a message to those most special to them.
Residents enjoyed our market that we held recently. We also had a visit from Elvis, everyone loved it.
Forest View celebrated their long serving employees recently.
We celebrated 11 employees in total, all receiving certificates for 5 to 20 years of service.
Local councillors joined us for this event, including Cllr Rodney Jackson, the chair of Mid Sussex Council.
congratulations to all of our employees receiving their long service awards, you should all be very proud of your continued hard work.
Our Burns Night afternoon tea. The residents enjoyed a traditional afternoon tea with haggis also well received.
On Saturday our residents went out to the shop for goodies, which they thoroughly enjoyed.
As part of National Mental Wellness Month we have set up a gratitude tree so that staff can spread a little positivity across the home.
Residents also enjoyed our recent sweet making activity.
Join us at Forest View for our Residents Entertainment Event - an Elvis Tribute Act! Come and join in with all the hits!
The residents enjoyed reading the Gazette’s this afternoon, it’s lovely to see the joy on their faces.
Residents enjoyed the new cinema room over the weekend, watching the classics in comfort!
Vic and Sue joined the Residents at Forest View for a festive show.
We would like to say a massive thank you for all the wonderful donations this year, our amazing activities team and staff, volunteers and everyone that came on Saturday. Here are some photos of the residents enjoying themselves, the lovely stalls, entertainment and our very own Santa!
Residents concentrating hard on getting their Christmas cards written to loved ones!
Saturday 9th December 2pm - 4pm
Join us for our Christmas Fayre with live entertainment by Kit
Other activities include - Christmas Raffle, Tombola, Guess the Weight of the Christmas cake
There will be refreshments available & a Santa visit!
Residents celebrating World Kindness Day at Forest View. We all wrote down an act of Kindness that we want to do for others.
We would like to celebrate our lovely staff for their hard work! Thank you so much for all you do.
Everyone had a great time at our Forest View Halloween party! There were lots of Halloween snacks and game for the residents to try.
A round of mini golf enjoyed by some of our residents today. We also had a decorate a pumpkin competition, here are some residents with their art work.
Here are some of our residents enjoying their family newsletters yesterday! If you would like any further information on how you can setup a newsletter for your loved one please contact our Admin office.
Pearl is our Employee of the Month for September, colleagues have noticed her diligence and dedication to the role. Thank your Pearl for your hard work.
Residents and the team enjoyed an ABBA themed day at Forest View. We had lots of ABBA tunes and a bite to eat.
Lots of families joined our coffee morning on Saturday, if you would like any further information regarding our FREE newsletter for residents please enquire with Activities, Admin or Management.
Residents at Forest View making the most of the lovely weather with fun games in the garden
Plenty of keen golfers! Friday afternoon was miserable so we decided to involve the residents and staff in a friendly crazy golf competition, deep concentration by all.
Great day out to the Bluebell Railway for residents, families and staff. Enjoyed especially by the train enthusiasts!
Residents and staff were overwhelmed with Joy today when Tinkerbell and Blossom the adorable ponies visited.
They were loved by all and certainly enjoyed the attention.
We have been busy recently at Forest View...
We firstly enjoyed a homemade game of Air Hockey. The following day we held a market fully of yummy fruit and baked goods!
After enjoying all the food from the market we took part in a Swoove armchair fitness class....
We finished the week with our gardening club, green fingers all around!
The residents enjoyed a morning of tennis and strawberries and cream in the afternoon.
We have had fun at Forest View icing biscuits, flower arranging and dancing and singing to music! Great fun had by all.
We enjoyed a visit from a local nursery that came to visit the resident’s. We also had fun celebrating Peggy Kings 96th Birthday, the entertainer singing for her was Grace.
Lots of activity at Forest View this friday! We had our Friday Market, John Beever the entertainer and Sylvia’s birthday celebrations.
Our very valued volunteers receiving their certificates to celebrate Volunteer week. They are Jenny Harrison with Deputy Manager Marie and Cathy Tucknott with Karen our Manager. Well done both.
Our residents thoroughly enjoyed their painting session on Thursday afternoon... and aren't they all just wonderful!
A puppy called Hughie came to visit residents and we all absolutly loved meeting him! We also enjoyed some coronation crafts.
Residents at Forest View recently enjoyed a trip to the garden centre, air hockey, exercise classes and most importantly.. the sunshine!
Laura our lovely hair dresser put on ABBA on for the residents to enjoy whilst waiting for their hair appointments.
We received a lovely hamper for the staff to share from a residents family to say thank you for all the hard work. Well done Team!
Residents enjoyed a lovely visit from one of our staffs bunny. We also had entertainment from Victor and Sue the residents love them! We have chicken eggs that are ready to hatch...
The Easter Fayre was a wonderful success with Live singing, Tombola and a fantastic Raffle. Laureen our Admin was instrumental to raising the prizes for the raffle so we want to say a big thank you to her and all that donated prizes, Forest View Raised a whooping £352.00 on the day.
Thank you to all those that came and donated their time to make it such an amazing day.
Also the Residents enjoying a lovely chocolate surprise over the Easter weekend.
We took a walk to our local cafe where we enjoyed a coffee and a brownie.
This has been awarded to Jinette for her constant creativity and enthusiasm she brings into our residents lives, she is also very supportive with our new staff.
Our resident Martin celebrated his wedding anniversary at Forest View, with a private two course lunch in our family room, they both very much enjoyed the experience and were very grateful.
Our residents making crafts for sale at the Easter Market in April.
On Pancake Day the residents enjoyed a game of pancake flipping. We also enjoyed some music and dance.
We all had a great time doing some karaoke last week. We also celebrated Valentine's Day!
Entertainers Victor and Munro came to Forest View. All the residents enjoyed. We also did some cooking activities recently.
Residents enjoyed an afternoon full of entertainment thanks to Elvis tribute entertainer called David Greenaway from Care Entertainment. Everyone really enjoyed his visit as you can see!
Forest View market day! We have a monthly market in the home selling flowers, a few gift items, cakes, biscuits and fresh fruit for the residents to purchase and also for their families to attend.
Forest view had a doll therapy session recently. We Introduced our new baby "Grace" to the residents. The activity exceeded all our expectations with our residents being animated and affectionate when handling her.
One of our lovely residents here at Forest View, Marion, transforms her bedroom into a Christmas grotto every year, it is very festive!
Forest View employees recently took part in Elf Day in aid of the Alzheimer's Society.
Our lovely activities ladies have set up a reflection corner in memory of our Countries history.
Hilda and Margret spent the afternoon reminiscing and chatting about Hilda's memory book.
It was a weekend of puzzles at Forest View. Some of the residents have also been practicing their strictly come dancing moves.
If you would like to help people we have opportuities at Forest View in Burgess Hill to join the Shaw family
We are looking for Support Workers and Kitchen Assistants to join the Shaw Family at Forest View
In 1941, Kathleen joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and was posted to Blackpool, where she learnt to drive and was the first person in her family to do so. After passing her test, Kathleen was posted to the Motor Transport Division in RAF Pembrey, South Wales, where she drove cars, ambulances and American, left-hand drive 30 hundredweight Fordson trucks.