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Amanda’s pioneering tech journey
Amanda Rae, our Head of Quality and Compliance, has continued to pioneer the use of technology to provide the best possible person-centred care.
Earlier this year, she was honoured with the Digita...
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Caron chairs new East of England SCNAC
Our operations manager Caron Sanders-Crook has been appointed as chair of the East of England Social Care Nurse Advisory Council (SCNAC).
Caron was previously chair of the Mid and South Essex (MSE...
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The story of Maureen’s life: war, family and love
Born in August 1940 amidst the chaos and conflict of World War II, Maureen Hall grew up with her older brother Michael in a close-knit family in Sussex. Her milkman father rose before dawn every da...
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From Manila to Bexhill: Pam’s dementia care journey
Our deputy manager Pam McFall began her dementia care journey in the bustling suburbs of Manila, Philippines, growing up within a large family of nurses and engineers! Inspired by her mother, a ps...
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Tony Wallis-Yeo is our new regional trainer
As our new regional trainer, Tony works alongside colleagues Sandra Rogers and Roy Langstaffe in the team headed up by Sarita Baxter, Learning & Development Manager.
Tony grew up in Romford, Es...
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Meet Rebecca Histed-Lince – Quality Support Manager
Quality support manager Rebecca Histed-Lince is the newest addition to Canford Healthcare’s quality team.
Led by Amanda Rae, head of quality & compliance, the quality team is responsible for e...
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Nurse Hanne’s 25 years’ long service
Nurse Hanne Primrose has just achieved a huge milestone – 25 years at Ashridge! Originally from Denmark, Hanne came to the UK as an au pair and decided to stay.
After completing her trainin...
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Introducing Charles Wrightson
Charles Wrightson has become Canford Healthcare’s new financial controller. He manages the finance team, which is based in the company’s Bournemouth office, supported by finance manager Amparo Folg...
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Sarita becomes Learning & Development Manager
Sarita joined Canford Healthcare in 2022 as a regional trainer and has recently been promoted to head up the training team.
She brings huge experience to the organisation, having been a support wo...
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Introducing Emma Seamons – our new Head of HR
Emma Seamons has become Canford Healthcare’s new Head of Human Resources (HR).
Emma knows the organisation (and our homes well), having joined our HR team in 2017 as HR business partner. In this bu...
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Amanda Rae – digital innovation winner!
Amanda Rae, our Head of Quality and Compliance, has won Person Centred Software’s Digital Innovation Award at the company’s annual Champions of Care Awards 2024.
The awards celebrate the achievemen...
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Caron appointed as a Social Care Nursing Advisory Council chair
Caron Sanders-Crook, our operations manager, has recently been appointed as chair of one of the newly established Social Care Nursing Advisory Councils (SCNACs)…
Canford Healthcare supports Ukrainian relief charity
Canford Healthcare has recently donated medical/care equipment and supplies to the Tunbridge Wells-based Ukrainian Relief Group (URG) for use by the medical services in war-torn Ukraine, as well as refugees arriving in the UK…
Meet Roy, our new regional trainer
Roy Langstaffe has joined our regional training team to deliver face-to-face and virtual group training as well as 1:1 coaching to staff across our 11 homes.
Before coming to Canford Healthcare, Ro...
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We’re off to the Care Home Awards final!
June is shaping up to be a very busy month for us. Not only are we and our sister homes up for trophies at the HealthInvestor Awards on 7 June at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, but here at As...
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Considering care as a career?
There are so many good reasons for anyone to think seriously about a career in care.
For one, it’s incredibly fulfilling and enjoyable, with a high level of job satisfaction and the chance to wo...
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MyCanford – enhanced staff reward & wellbeing
We’re delighted to announce the launch of MyCanford, a revamped and enhanced reward and wellbeing programme for our employees. This offers a wide range of discounts, offers and cashback from over ...
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Canford Healthcare industry award wins
Canford Healthcare’s very own Amanda Rae and Donna Barks have won awards and high commendations at the Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care (WAGS) recently.
Donna Barks, manager of our Tunbr...
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Meet our new regional trainers – Sarita and Sandra
We’re delighted to welcome Sarita Baxter and Sandra Rogers to our Learning & Development team. Their appointment comes as part of a strengthening and streamlining of the training and developme...
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Amanda Rae becomes a Queen’s Nurse
We are delighted to announce that Amanda Rae, our quality & compliance manager, has been awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).
The QNI is the U...
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What an amazing achievement!
Last year, one of our longest-serving nurses, Kate Watkins, was due to cycle from Eastbourne to Paris, with her niece Hannah, to raise money for an amazing cause – St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbour...
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Chief nursing gold award for Caron!
We are delighted to announce that our operations manager, Caron Sanders-Crook, has been awarded the Chief Nursing Officer for Adult Social Care Gold Award in recognition of her outstanding service...
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Debbie Inkersole, our Operations Manager, wins industry award
Debbie Inkersole, our Operations Manager, has triumphed over many other entrants to win the Care Operations/Area Manager Award at the 2021 National Care Awards recently.
Organised by Caring Time...
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Spreading cheer to our elderly on World Kindness Day
As World Kindness Day approaches (13 November), Ashridge Court Care Centre is reaching out to the community to ask people to write to our residents.
Within just 24 hours of a recent Facebook app...
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Canford Healthcare scoops two trophies at Care Home Awards
Canford Healthcare is delighted to announce that we have won two awards at the 2021 Care Home Awards.
Beating off stiff competition, we were named Best for Communication and Best for Non-Clinica...
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Meet our senior care assistant – Joanne Stephens!
Born and raised in London, Jo moved out to the coast at 14 where she attended collage to study I.T Studies. This was a good programme for Jo as she could easily transfer to many different areas of...
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Meet our resident – Alan
Our resident, Alan, is relatively new to the Ashridge family! For one year, he has had time to settle into his new home and has done so with great enthusiasm.
For forty years, Alan was a butcher...
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Meet Chloe, a member of our Activities Team!
Chloe lives in Eastbourne and has been a part of the Activities Team for one year, although she has been a part of the Canford family for 5.
She loves her job because she finds working with elde...
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Meet our lovely resident Joyce
Joyce has been living at the home for three years and is loving it! She joins in many of the activities, and she’s especially fond of exercise, which reminds her of happy days in school when she w...
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Relatives’ survey – thank you!
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our relatives who completed our recent relatives’ survey. We are so grateful to you for taking the time to give us your views and provide feedback, which i...
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Introducing Gemma – our Head of Activities
We are delighted to introduce Gemma Carey, our new Head of Activities who joins Carol and Chloe in our busy activities team.
Gemma, who has lived in Bexhill-on-Sea all her life, is an experience...
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Introducing our resident Sheila
Sheila has been at Ashridge Court Care Centre for four years. She may already be familiar to many as she has featured in several publications, including our brochure and the Residents’ Guide!
Sh...
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Meet Senior Care Assistant Rakcshya
Rakcshya has been at Ashridge since August 2009, and was always told that Ashridge Court was the best home in the area and she loves it, and doesn’t want to work anywhere else. She says ̶...
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Care Assistant Steven Bulgin gives moving speech
Ashridge Court carer, Steven Bulgin, was asked to speak at the 5th annual celebration of the inspirational Sussex-based project, Little Gate Farm. This project, supported by Sussex Community Found...
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Opening of re-designed dementia facilities
We are to proud to announce the opening of an additional six rooms in our Hazel Unit. We have re-designed this area specifically for residents with dementia. At Ashridge Court, we already provide ...
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Our Brexit preparations
The UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) by or on Thursday 31 October 2019.
Canford Healthcare is working with suppliers and co-operating fully with Government contingency planning to mini...
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Beryl the Bard of Bexhill goes home
Beryl Billenness, aka the Bard of Bexhill, has returned to her seafront home after three happy months with us at Ashridge.
Having been
hospitalized with severe dehydration over the summer, Beryl...
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Meet Home Manager Shelley Rabbitt
It’s been four months since Shelley Rabbitt arrived here as our new Home Manager. But Ashridge Court is actually home from home to Shelley who’s lived locally for many years. Having started her ca...
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice and guidance
In the light of the Prime Minister’s address yesterday evening and the government’s much tighter restrictions on people leaving their homes, we regret that we must now close our doors to all visit...
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Behind the Smiles: Caron’s moving account of PTSD
Caron Sanders-Crook, our operations manager, is the author of the newly published Behind The Smiles, a no-holds barred exploration of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its devastating impa...
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Manager of our sister care home gives evidence before Joint Select Committee
Theresa Steed, manager of our sister care home, has given evidence at the Coronavirus: Lessons Learnt Inquiry organised jointly by the Science and Technology and the Health and Social Care Committ...
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Canford Healthcare appoints green energy supplier Ecotricity
As part of our drive to conserve resources and reduce our carbon footprint, we have appointed renewable energy expert Ecotricity as the electricity supplier across our 11 homes.
Ecotricity’s com...
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Meet our resident, John Plumb!
We’re pleased to introduce our resident John Plumb, who came to live with us at Ashridge Court 14 months ago with Helen, his wife of 67 years.
Before coming to Ashridge, the couple enjoyed a ful...
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Initiatives to help people coming into our care home
Tablet for all new long-term residents
Making the decision to move into care is never easy at the best of times. Whether this is for you or on behalf of a loved one, you may have concerns about ...
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John’s poetic tribute to carers everywhere
John Plumb, our resident poet here at Ashridge has been busy again. His new poem – a follow-up to his recent Oh Virus! – is a heartfelt tribute to NHS and care staff all over the country.
It’s ...
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Introducing our Relatives’ Gateway
Just imagine the scene: it’s the middle of the afternoon, you are sitting in your lounge or at the office and you wonder what sort of a day your loved one is having here at Ashridge Court.
You g...
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Good CQC rating for Ashridge
We are delighted to announce that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has assessed Ashridge Court Care Centre as ‘Good’ following a short unannounced inspection on 11 January. The inspectors focusse...
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On yer bike! Kate’s charity ride
Kate Watkins, one of our longest-serving nurses, will be getting on her bike this autumn to raise money for St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne.
She and niece Hannah Williams, a contact officer f...
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Save the Date!
Our annual Summer Fete is back on Saturday 14th July.
We are looking for donations towards the bottle tombola and the raffle – so if you have contacts with any local businesses who may wish t...
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‘The Haven’ has opened!
We are excited to launch our new outside space, named ‘The Haven’!
‘The Haven’ is a safe, secure and comfortable environment for our residents to enjoy, but most importantly it has been...
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Save the Date!
Come and join us for an afternoon of gin cocktails, canapes and smooth jazz from Helen Sharpe and bluesette on Saturday 25th August.
We are limited to 50 people, so if you would like to spot please...
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Meet Resident Alan
From its lofty vantage point amid the rolling downs above Bexhill-on-Sea, Ashridge Court affords its residents and staff stunning long-distance views of the Sussex coastline and the sparkling water...
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Summer Fete
Ashridge Court Care Centre, in Bexhill on Sea, held their annual Summer Fair on Saturday 14th July and with the sun on our side, it was a roaring success.
We were joined by Mayor Abul Azad who pro...
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Forget Me Knot
Loving someone who has dementia can, at times, be a challenging and very emotional experience that can be very difficult to know how to understand and cope with.
Dave Williams, our Registered Ment...
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Pimp My Zimmer!
We have been showing off our creative talents decorating the residents zimmer frames. Research suggests that residents, especially those living with Dementia, struggle to identify their own frames ...
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Hawkhurst Fish Farm
What a day we had! With our friends from Oomph Wellness we all got on the bus and headed out to Hawkhurst Fish Farm.
We all indulged in a spot of lunch at their Waterside Cafe, looking out across t...
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Raystede Animal Sanctuary
We love getting out in the local area, and with our friends from Oomph Wellness, we all hopped on the bus and headed out to Raystede Animal Sanctuary.
Raystede is a registered charity, and believes...
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Mad Hatters Tea Party
Talking about memories is one of the many things we love to do with our residents, and when talking about films they love ‘Alice in Wonderland’ came into conversation. They expressed ju...
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Ashridge gets some Oomph!
We’re excited to be partnering with Oomph Wellness, the UK’s leading wellbeing business for older adults, to enhance mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.
Our staff at Ashridge have been traine...
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Meet Senior Care Assistant Lisa
Lisa has been at the home for nearly a year and a half and says “We are all one big family here and we look after our residents as we would a member of our own family. I like to buy them thin...
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Gail meets His Majesty the King
It’s not every day that you go to Buckingham Palace to meet His Majesty King Charles III, but that’s exactly what Willows’ clinical manager Gail St Juste-Alcide (pictured second from the left) did recently. Gail had received a surprise invitation to…
HealthInvestor Awards 2023
We are delighted to have reached the final of the HealthInvestor Awards 2023 in not just one but two categories…
Queen Elizabeth II, 1926–2022
We mark the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II after 70 extraordinary years on the throne. She was Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, having celebrated her platinum jubilee only two sh...
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Meet the Manager
Caroline Braime joined the Ashridge Court team as the Registered Manager in October 2016, and her experience and dedication in the care sector are evident when you become part of the Ashridge famil...
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Introducing our colleague Natalie
Natalie, also known to family and colleagues as ‘Princess’, has been a member of the Ashridge care team for just over a year, having worked for the previous three over at our sister home in Eastbo...
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