Hyne Town House Newsletter
Winter Edition 2011
The New Year is now well underway but I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a healthy and prosperous 2011
Hyne Town House had a fun packed schedule of events leading up to Christmas and I hope both residents and their families enjoyed the entertainment available, A big thank you to Jean for organising such a wonderful festive season.
The Endsleigh Garden
One of the highlights of the festivities was our day trip to Endsleigh Garden Centre. The event was arranged by Annie Morgan who, as part of her apprentership training, was asked to fund and organise an outing for the residents.
Annie began by organising a jumble sale in Strete Village Hall to raise money towards the cost of the trip. She then hired a minibus and along with other members of staff took the residents for a very enjoyable day out.
Although the weather was cold, a number of residents enjoyed a walk around the indoor areas of the garden centre which had beautiful displays of Christmas trees and decorations.
The trip ended with afternoon tea and delicious mince pies.
The Tree of Light.
Hyne Town House was asked by Stoke Fleming Church
Helen Drury, our resident activities coordinator, organised for the residents and staff to make their own decorations for the tree.
The name of the tree “The Tree of Light” was chosen by one of our residents. The residents, families and members of staff all contributed and an enormous amount of fun and laughter was generated whilst making the decorations.
Christmas Gifts
I hope the suggestions of gift ideas for the residents proved useful when choosing Christmas gifts. We are still trying to put together memory boards and photograph albums for the residents. Any help or contributions would be most welcome.
Extension Work to Hyne Town House
The much heralded project to build a 1st floor extension above part of the existing single storey west wing now looks likely to commence at the end of April / beginning of May.
As previously outlined, the extension will provide 9 new bedrooms, a new 1st floor lounge overlooking the sea, an improved ramp at the entrance of the home, a larger entrance hall, a new bathroom on the 2nd floor and upgrading to all the existing bedrooms. These upgrades will include the replacement of night storage heaters with conventional radiators, more electric sockets in the west wing, improved lighting in bedrooms, a pressurised hot water system on the 1st and 2nd floors in the main building in line with the rest of the home and much more.
Inevitably this will mean that some residents will need to be temporarily relocated in other rooms while the work is being carried out. However, we have deliberately retained enough empty rooms to ensure that any disturbance is kept to a minimum.
The project, divided into 3 phases, is expected to take about 30 weeks although the longest period that any resident is likely to be effected is phase 1 which is scheduled to take 14 weeks. (See attached Schedule)
Interestingly, whenever we have carried out building work in the past, residents have enjoyed watching the activity taking place and the comings and goings of the builders.
Needless to say, the comfort and safety of our residents will be our priority throughout the work.
The Firs
As some of you will be aware, we applied for planning permission to convert The Firs (the property to the left of the driveway as you come into the car-park) into 2 separate assisted living apartments at the end of last year. I am delighted to say that the planning consent has now come through and work will commence to convert the property and increase the size of the car-park during the next few weeks.
Unfortunately, for safety reasons, the car-park will not be available to visitors while this work is taking place.
Whilst it was never envisaged to be this way, it is now inevitable that the 2 projects will run concurrently.
When the project is finished we will be able to offer:
The Firs: 2 assisted living apartments for up to 2 people each and
The Lodge, an assisted living bungalow for up to 2 people
Happy Birthday to You…………………………
Residents:
Anne Wreford-Brown 21st February
Yolanda Ball 6th March
Staff ; Jane Webb 24th January
Erik Struben 1st March
Anna Ebong 11th March
Forthcoming Events
Friday 18th February Happy Times with Pauline Carter
Tuesday 8th March Cream Tea with friends and family
Friday 1st April Happy Times with Pauline Carter
Wednesday 13th April Music Concert with Mark Patten
Thursday 14th April Coffee Morning & raffle. Friends and family
Welcome
Sunday 24th April Easter Bonnet Parade with cream tea
Contributions for the newsletter from residents,
staff and families are always welcome.
Yvonne Mould
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