Nursing home converts TV lounge into Christmas grotto
December 12, 2011
CHILDHOOD memories have been revived for residents at a New Forest nursing home who now have their very own Christmas grotto.
Handyman Simon Woodland spent two weeks converting a TV lounge at Colten Care’s Woodpeckers home in Brockenhurst into the seasonal attraction.
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Rock Choir Rock Woodpeckers Nursing Home
July 29, 2011
Rock Choir, which recently appeared on ITV’s series “The Choir That Rocks” brought some stardust to Colten Care’s nursing home Woodpeckers, situated in Brockenhurst, Hampshire when its members treated residents and staff to an exclusive concert last week.
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Rock Choir
Woodpeckers
Woodpeckers resident enjoying cocktails and sunshine!
July 13, 2011
As we have discussed in one of our earlier news articles and which you can read about here, Colten Care recently became the first carehome in the South of the UK to install Colten Cove, a therapeutic sunroom at Belmore Lodge, one of its three Lymington carehomes.
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Colten Cove
Lost budgie found at Woodpeckers
May 13, 2011
Normally new residents to Colten Care’s nursing home Woodpeckers, based in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, arrive through the front door. Tarquin the budgie, however, sent feathers flying by crash-landing in the garden to the surprise of residents on Sunday afternoon, May 8th.
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