Regular readers will know us (Chris and Benny) as office bears who help our female minder out in the office. That office is Victory Housing Trust and, full marks to Victory, they recently gave all staff an extra 3 days leave which is to be used for volunteering on projects which benefit the local community.
Through our minder's new job (long story) we became acquainted with Heritage House, a day care centre which does marvellous work with the elderly who they describe as 'the beautiful elderly' (we like that).
When we first visited, builders were finishing work on a fine new conservatory. The Manager (the delightful Mary) needed to furnish the conservatory and get it ready for use and had no-one to help. That's where our minder, a colleague of hers, and us of course and the new volunteering leave came in. We applied for and were granted a volunteering day, so along we went.
This is us outside the new conservatory. As you can see it was a lovely sunny day, and as there was a fair bit of physical work, moving furniture, we had frequent breaks in the sun. Just look at the size of the open doorway! - we're sure all the day care visitors will love the breathe of fresh air they will get.
Manager Mary had done a lot of clever thinking and thought of a way to mix the ultra modern conservatory with old things that would be familiar to the centre users. We moved in the dresser you can see, and an old dining table and chairs and filled the dresser with lots of memorabilia from the last century which we hoped would make the guests full of nostalgia for their younger years. There was also an old radiogram and we even did a spot of dancing to Barry Manilow.
We filled the conservatory with brand new chairs which looked great and were very comfortable.
We tested them out and, with the suns rays on us, and the hard work done, it was hard to keep our eye lids open.
Sadly we couldn't make the official opening the following day, but we're sure it will have gone well and the room will be much loved and gets lots of use.
Best wishes to all the lovely people at Heritage House and keep up the good work.
Lots of love, Chris and Benny xxx
1 comment:
Good work! Looks a lovely place - somewhere we'd enjoy being in later life! Well done Nirfolk Branch and minder
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