Almshouses
We provide a safe, friendly and supportive community of almshouses in which older people enjoy independent living and companionship
Registered Care
Our care service is specifically designed to support individuals who, because of increasing age, disability, or ill health, need more support with their own personal care needs
Dementia
We support those living with dementia to live well as independently as possible, and we support their carers and families
Hand in Hand
We help older people in the Winchester community to live well and independently, through friendship, support and signposting services
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Just over a week to go and our Ride to Remember cycling challenge begins! Have you pumped up your tires, laced your trainers, and pledged your challenge distance? Visit our campaign platform before Wednesday 1 May to register, bit.ly/49ujPaa. We have some great prizes ready to be won by the highest fundraising individual, team, and organisation.
Whether you clock up your miles through a Sunday ride, a trip out with family, your commute to work or your regular spin class, we look forward to seeing and sharing your cycling adventures over the month of May.
All funds raised through Ride to Remember will go directly to supporting the expansion of our St John’s Dementia Support service.
⏰ When: 1-31 May 2024
📍 Where: Anywhere
❓ How: Visit our Raisely campaign platform to take on the challenge or to sponsor a friend, bit.ly/49ujPaa.
#RideToRemember #CyclingChallenge
Congratulations are in order for Penny, one of our welfare team members who has achieved her Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care 🥳👏
Penny started working with us a shopper, supporting residents, and then moved on to join our welfare team as a permanent member of staff. With us she has achieved her Adult Care certificate, her Level 2, and recently her Level 3.
Our Welfare Manager Beccy, says, “Penny has always been a naturally caring and empathetic care worker. She’s a credit to our team and is greatly thought of by our residents and colleagues. She is always prepared to go the 'extra mile'.
Alongside her role within the welfare team, Penny has taken the lead on organising many events within St John's including a successful summer fete and a magnificent Jubilee celebration. She also runs a regular craft club for our residents and this year, is working with our residents and Play to the Crowd to facilitate a series of workshops leading up to the ‘art of the unexpected’ Hat Fair. She supports our residents with minibus outings and also hand makes every resident a personalised birthday card every year.”
Penny, we all think you're fantastic and your Diploma is very well deserved 🧡 #CelebratingSocialCare Skills for Care
Over the sunny weekend, we welcomed several volunteers from Winchester Rotary UK to assist our on-site gardener with creating new borders on our Southside almshouse site ☀️🌺🌼
Included in our team of excellent knowledgeable volunteers was a botanist who discovered ancient wildflower meadow in our existing lawns. The team decided that we should endeavour to keep those wildflowers as a nod to the history of the land and allow it to exist with us and bloom.
In our gardener's greenhouse, there are many more flowering perennials to plant on our site as the year progresses, and the small wildflower meadows will also be shaped and moulded to create a place for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife to thrive and enjoy.
In time, we expect the borders to marry up with the rest of the landscape design and bring cohesion, including our Legacy Leaves design on our well 🍃🍂 #gardeningproject
Throughout the month of May, we’re inviting you to take part in our Ride to Remember campaign, taking on the challenge of cycling 100 miles or 100 kilometres in support of our Dementia Support service.
Whether it’s on a stationary, pedal, or electric bike, participants can join individually, as a team or as part of a business or organisation to clock up their pledged miles.
The campaign is led by Challenge Champion, Mark McLaren, who through his own diagnosis of Early Onset Dementia, benefitted from the guidance and support of our Admiral Nurses and Memory Wellbeing Centres. Determined to make sure that no call for help ever goes unanswered, Mark’s inspiring journey will see him tackle the Hampshire Hilly Hundred, alongside encouraging the Winchester community to come together once again in aid of our Dementia Support service and the estimated nearly 2,000 people in Winchester living with dementia.
Join Mark and our wonderful community, by jumping on your bike this May to help us to make a difference to those in Winchester who are living with dementia.
All funds raised through Ride to Remember will go directly to supporting the expansion of our St John’s Dementia Support service.
⏰ When: 1-31 May 2024
📍 Where: Anywhere
❓ How: Visit our Raisely campaign platform to take on the challenge or to sponsor a friend, bit.ly/49ujPaa.
#RideToRemember #CyclingChallenge
We’ve been nominated for the Winchester Business Excellence Awards for a second year in a row 🥳🤩
This year we’re in the running for the Charity and Social Enterprise Award, the Business Leader Award, the Service Excellence Award, and the Creative and Cultural Award.
Finalists to be announced on Thursday 2 May, wish us luck 🤞 Winchester BID #WBEA2024 #WinchesterBusinessAwards
This month we’re joining Skills for Care in #CelebratingSocialCare and our incredible team of welfare staff 🧡
Read below what a resident family member has recently said about our Registered Welfare Manager, Beccy, and our Deputy Manager, Helen.
“Beccy and Helen’s effective professionalism and specialist skills would be hard to match by anyone. Time and time again, they demonstrate extraordinary sensitivity and discretion when supporting and managing the most difficult of situations. We know that we can rely on them completely and trust their actions and their decision-making.
Their dedication to those in their care, and to the families of St John’s residents is truly remarkable. They have a deep understanding of what professional care and effective communication is. They are both quite remarkable.”
Well done ladies and to the rest of our welfare team, you’re all wonderful 🥰🤩 #SocialCare #HelloWinchester
Photo credit: Peter Langdown
Older people living well in Winchester
St John’s Hand in Hand assists older people in the Winchester community through friendship, support and signposting services.
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