People across our services have been preparing thoughtful tributes to mark Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday this weekend.
Preparing for the weekend of commemoration, St Catherine’s Nursing Home residents spent one of their regular craft sessions carefully making beautiful poppies with the help of activity co-ordinator, Sarah. Dozens of the finished poppies were then used to decorate their dignity tree in the home’s main entrance.
Meanwhile, residents living in our Holy Cross Nursing Home put their skills to work making a collage of 100 poppies – one for each year since the end of WW1. The collage is now proudly displayed in the home’s main lounge.
Adults with learning disabilities at our Parkhead Resource Centre in Ashington paid their respects by making two poppy wreaths for their dining room wall. One features the familiar red poppies, while a distinctive purple one commemorates all the animals that lost their lives in the war.
Since the group doesn’t meet on Sunday, they paid their respects early with a two minute silence.