The fifth Care Home Open Day takes place on June 16, 2017 – and if you haven’t registered yet there is still just time to do so.

Care Home Open Day is all about the importance of connecting with local communities, developing lasting relationships and encouraging an inter-generational rapport so the theme for this year will be ‘Friendship’ and, as part of this year’s event, we will be celebrating Care Home Open Day in conjunction with The Big Lunch.

The Big Lunch, part of the Eden Project in Cornwall and an annual event, aims to get as many people as possible to share lunch together in an act of friendship that will encourage communities to connect and help to prevent isolation among those who may be living alone. It’s the perfect fit with the Care Home Open Day ethos!

Care homes are encouraged to celebrate friendships that have developed between residents, families, friends and staff, as well as with their neighbours, to reinforce how they should be an integral part of their local community.

Good care homes do great things all year round and this one day is to highlight what you do within your local communities.

So, get your thinking caps on, get your residents, their families, staff and your friends in the local community involved in deciding what you would like to do for the day, and get planning! Find out more here.

Don’t forget to send us your photos! We have received some brilliant photos in the past which we circulate in our Enews to members and online via the website, Facebook and Twitter.

Have a look at some photos from 2016 here. You can send photos to Janet Roberts by June 21 to be featured in our next edition of Enews. High resolution jpegs please!