Santa’s Grotto at Hamble Heights

We have a very special guest this December… Santa Claus will be visiting our residents and their families in the Hamble Heights Grotto from today!

 

The festive season has begun!

It was a fantastically festive day at Hamble Heights on Sunday with our indoor Christmas Market!

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In Loving Memory

We had a moving yet uplifting Memorial Service yesterday at Hamble Heights in memory of those residents that we have lost in the last year…

 

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Last of the summer time…

We weren’t quite ready to say goodbye to summer…so Hamble Heights had an indoor beach afternoon!  We didn’t hold back and embraced the tastes, sounds, smells and textures of being on holiday by the sea.

Memory Walk

Team members from Hamble Heights took part in a Memory Walk for Alzheimer’s Society on Saturda...

Proud to be selected by Southampton University

Hamble Heights was audited by Southampton University last year, which is a very vigorous process. They are exceedingly particular about where they place their students, so we are very proud that we have been selected for Southampton University’s student nurse placement programme…

Knitted hats for babies in Tanzania

Student midwife, Natalie Bell, from Southampton University, is travelling to Tanzania for a month to work in the maternity block of a government-funded hospital.  Volunteers have been extremely busy knitting baby hats and blankets for the newborns.  One such volunteer is the mother of Hamble Heights’ Home Manager, Michelle…

Balloon Animals!

Well who doesn’t love a good game with a balloon?!  Ju Ju, the resident West Highland puppy at Hamble Heights, enjoyed plenty of fun with the balloons at the recent National Care Home Open Day…

Winning BBC Radio 2 story about dementia by 10 year old Clara

500 Words from BBC Radio 2 is a writing competition that was designed to encourage children to enjoy reading, writing and being creative.  It is now the most successful story-writing competitions for kids in the world!