Around our charity, our staff and service users have commemorated Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.
Residents and staff came together in our Newcastle nursing home, St Catherine’s, to prepare for the commemorations by making dozens of hand-crafted poppies to hang on their dignity tree at the entrance to the home.
Volunteer, Michael, then led a special Armistice Day prayer group for our residents who were able to observe the two minutes’ silence together in the home’s chapel.
Members and guests at our specialist Alan Shearer Activity Centre also paid tribute to our war heroes with their own poppy crafts and have helped our talented recreation assistants to create a stunning poppy display for the entrance to the Centre.
Included in the design is a verse from the well-known poem, For the Fallen, by Robert Laurence Binyon, as shown in our photo.
We will remember.