Staff and residents at a care home in Chippenham have dedicated their time to delivering flowers to a community hospital to show the value of kindness. 

Cepen Lodge Care Home, run by Barchester Healthcare, provides residential, respite and dementia care.

It hosts regular free events to reduce social isolation and encourage elderly residents to socialise by engaging them mentally and physically, so they develop new skills and interests, like baking, coffee mornings and fish and chips club.

During their latest enrichment activity – flower arranging – staff and residents decided to deliver their handmade bunches to cheer up patients and nurses at the community hospital as part of their ‘random acts of kindness’ to give back to people.

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Senior general manager, Jade Hodge, said: “As a care home, it is our duty to cultivate a kind and nurturing environment 100 per cent of the time, and to carry this across to support our local community.

“We all really enjoyed delivering the flowers to the wards, it was such a simple, yet effective way to make others happy in the community. We also shared information with the patients and wards about our upcoming clubs and cafés which they really appreciated.”