Fresh air

It was certainly not as warm as we have been treated to recently but fresh air is fresh air so today we recently spent a nice morning at Bryn Bach park. We braved the weather and had a fantastic walk around the lake. The wildlife was amazing as you can see from the photographs and everyone enjoyed t...

A lovely morning

We had a lovely morning with Petra creating some lovely needle felted pictures. We looked at some photos for inspiration then put our own little twist to it. It’s something a little bit different but that’s the Foxhunters way! As you can see from the pictures, our ladies and gentlemen produced s...

Great British Care Cycle Relay

We kicked off Glad to Care and Care Home Open Week with Tracey and the team from Great British Care Cycle Relay who are cycling for 10 hours a day across the UK celebrating the care services at the heart of every community. We were their lunchtime stop on the Cardiff leg of the journey and it w...

Super talented

We had a fantastic evening with the super talented, super tall and super named Carrie Sauce. Fun, laughter, singing and of course lots of dancing. It was a perfect way to spend an evening and our ladies and gents thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you to the staff and families who helped make it a perfect...

A lovely day

We had a lovely day celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day. This included a trip down memory lane with Richard Bevis, a very talented singer and performer, who treated us to some fantastic renditions of some wartime favourites. Many of our ladies and gentlemen remember what it was like being a c...

Knitter natter

There is an enormous amount of research showing that knitting has physical and mental health benefits, for instance it can slow down dementia, so this is one of the reasons why we set up a knitter natter group at Foxhunters. Many of our ladies are in the group and our knitter natter champion Gladys ...

Partner school

We recently had lovely visit to our intergenerational care partner school, Llanvihangel Crucorney Primary School. We chatted about our jobs and as the children are looking at different job roles, it was great that we could offer an insight into our ladies past careers. We then enjoyed a little story...

Wartime memories

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day we have been collating some of the wartime memories of  our ladies and gentlemen and are pleased to share them here: Anita I was born in a small village near Crumlin. I remember the large soccer field where the soldiers set up camp, we used to love going down ...

Garden party

With the spring weather being so great, we had an impromptu mini garden party. The very talented Richard came in to play his guitar and sing songs which all our ladies and gentlemen recognised and could sing a long to. A few bubbles and a bit of cake in the lovely sunshine made for a very fun aftern...

Easter fete

What a fun morning we had at the Foxhunters Easter fete. Singing, dancing, shopping, what more could we need? It was a truly magical day and all our ladies, gentlemen, families and staff thoroughly enjoyed the day. We also had a visit from the Easter bunny who provided Easter eggs for our all our la...

A lovely morning

Another lovely morning thanks to Nick and the team at our tour partner Myley. We visited the Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo and had to look hard this time as the temperature was much cooler and so the butterflies were all hiding. It was great to go foraging and looking for them and as you will see from th...

Celebrating the Arts

The 23rd February was ‘Celebrating The Arts Day’ so we welcomed our local dance academy Dance Attack at Foxhunters. What amazing performers they were with lots of music and fantastic moves. It was another great example of intergenerational care, bringing old and young together for mutual benefit...

Fantastic charity

We were joined by Abergavenny Food Bank as our ‘Marathon Man’ and Gardener Alan led staff and our ladies and gentlemen in running or walking a half marathon to raise money for this fantastic charity who support our community. The event was inspired by one of our ladies, Ann, who is a reg...

Proud to be Welsh

We are very proud to be Welsh here at Foxhunters Care Community and there’s no better day to celebrate our history than St David’s Day. This year we had a morning with traditional Welsh folk music and dancing and our wonderful catering team made some lovely Welsh food, including Welsh Ca...

Burns Night

We celebrated Burns Night with a wonderful concert from John Campbell, our bagpiper. We had a full house and everyone enjoyed the renditions of well known songs and we, of course, addressed the haggis in the traditional Scottish way! It was a real day to remember. #gallery-14 { margin: au...

Perfect entertainment

We had a lovely morning with Wolfren Riverstick. It’s the perfect entertainment as Wolfren is an author and singer (not to mention having the best name!) and he always gets our ladies and gentlemen singing and dancing along. It’s was a great way to mark the beginning of National Storytelling...

Knitter natter

We moved our Knitter Natter session to the gallery so our ladies could make the most of the lovely views from the window while they did some knitting and lots of nattering of course! They are now going to hold their sessions here regularly and who could blame them with such a lovely viewpoint to loo...

French teacher

In a recent activity, we had a visit from our French teacher Emmanuelle. We learned some French songs, numbers and did a little quiz. Some of our ladies and gentlemen helped other residents as they were showing how much they remembered from learning French as a language at school. So, the session wa...

A fun Christmas

We had a very fun Christmas at Foxhunters with a host of festive activities for our ladies and gentlemen to enjoy, including a visit from Santa himself. He was accompanied by his trusty Elf and they helped deliver presents to our ladies and gentlemen. There’s no better time to be at Foxhunters...

Welsh history

We recently spent the day at St Fagans National Museum of History. We had lovely weather and enjoyed learning about the Welsh history and culture. One of our ladies, Gladys, visited ST Fagans when it first opened and was a fantastic tour guide to those who had not been. A lovely day again, courtesy ...

A real treat

Our latest trip out with our travel partner Myley Tours saw us taking in the splendour of Hereford Cathedral. We were very lucky to be able to see the choir and orchestra, it was a real treat! We also lit candles to remember our loved ones who are no longer with us. Thank you, as always to Nick from...

Festive visit

We had a lovely and very festive visit from the teachers and children from Llanfoist Fawr Primary School, one of our two local partner schools. We were treated to a lovely choir concert with some amazing vocalists. Thank you to the school for their ongoing support of our intergenerational care progr...

Let them eat cake

Let them eat cake. Well, we don’t need an excuse to do that at any time at Foxhunters, but certainly not when a competition is involved. The Dormy Christmas cake making competition is always hotly contested and working with our catering team, our ladies did a fantastic job making and decoratin...

Lifetime achievement award

Mike Parsons, the Chair of Dormy Care Communities, has received a lifetime achievement award. Mike received the honour at the 2024 National Care Awards held in London on 29th November. The award is in recognition of his service in the care industry, which began in 1992 when he founded Barchester He...

Getting excited

Everyone is getting very excited about the Dormy Care Communities Christmas card competition. We have made and submitted even more entries due to the popularity and we are keeping our fingers crossed that one of our ladies and gentlemen’s entries is chosen for this year’s card. Regardles...

Therapy dog

We had a new friend come to visit us at Foxhunters recently, namely Rob and his therapy dog Geddy. We had a lovely time introducing him to our ladies and gentlemen and by the looks of it they all got on very well. We also had a visit from a puppy too! Therapy dogs, and other animals, are proven to e...

Lovely to welcome back

It was lovely to welcome back the children from Llanfoist Fawr Primary School recently. They helped us with our Remembrance Day display and Mary enjoyed being host as she offered the children some light refreshments. The link we have built with the school is amazing and our ladies and gentlemen alwa...

Happy birthday to us

Another fantastic Foxhunters celebration!! We sang happy birthday to us as we celebrated our 6th anniversary in style with music from our first ever singer Craig Balien, who never fails to disappoint. Foxhunters really does know how to throw a party, just look at that cake made by talented chef Katr...

Celebrate the success

We were delighted to once again come together to celebrate the success of our team members who make a difference and go above and beyond in supporting the ladies and gentlemen who live in our four homes. Staff from Dormy Care Communities came together in Bath in October for the annual Dormy Care Awa...

A Halloween to remember

We had a Halloween to remember with a host of fun activities, including pumpkin carving which our ladies and gentlemen were horrifyingly good at, a frightfully great performance by singer Peter and some ghoulish food and drink prepared by our incredible team. Black chocolate tombstone cakes anyone? ...

Nice places to visit

We are extremely fortunate to have so many nice places to visit on our doorstep and ladies and gentlemen who enjoy getting out and about. One of our recent trips took us to Morris’ of Usk Garden Centre! This a family-run centre which opened in 1990 and is very popular. Our ladies spent the mo...

Getting out and about

We’ve always enjoyed getting out and about with our ladies and gentlemen, if they wish do so of course, and our latest trip saw us visiting a local garden centre. The wonderful Nick from our travel partner Myley Tours picked our ladies up and everyone had a wonderful time browsing and, of cour...

A real social occasion

Everyone knows we love to bake at Foxhunters but as well as creating delicious aromas and, of course, tasty treats, it’s a real social occasion too, giving our ladies and gentlemen a chance to spend time together in The Cwtch, having a cuppa and a good old fashioned chat. So, it provides stimu...

The Great Abergavenny Bake Off

The Great Abergavenny Bake Off saw our ladies working closely with our catering team led by  Chef Kyle to make some delicious sweet and savoury treats. There are not many more activities which stimulate all the senses like baking does. Very therapeutic and tasty to boot! #gallery-32 { ma...

Prost!

Prost means Cheers in German and whilst we were unable to take Abergavenny to Munich, we brought Munich to Abergavenny recently when we celebrated Oktoberfest. Our ladies and gents enjoyed having a few beers and some nibbles and generally taking part in something a little different! #gallery-...

Top marks

The catering and hospitality team at Foxhunters are celebrating another success after hygiene standards in the kitchens were given top marks by Inspectors. The home recently received the maximum food hygiene 5-star rating in the Government inspections that check on how food is managed, handled, stor...

Christmas is coming

Christmas is coming at Foxhunters and before you all start groaning that it’s still September (well nearly October!), we need to be prepared because our lovely homemade Christmas cakes won’t make themselves. This week we began the soaking the fruit ready for our cakes. It’s all about t...

Intergenerational care continues

It was lovely to welcome back a new group of children from Llanfoist Fawr School. The ladies and gentlemen enjoyed playing games and showing photos of their travels in our get to know you session. Along with learning some new Welsh words, we enjoyed getting to know our new friends.  Thank you Miss ...

A talk on jewellery

We recently welcomed Mari from Mari Thomas Jewellery to Foxhunters to give a talk on jewellery. Mari is an award-winning contemporary designer jeweller and goldsmith and gave a very interesting talk, display and discussion on the fantastic jewellery she makes. She also showed us an Eisteddford crown...

Recipe book

Dormy Care Communities has ensured the memories of the ladies and gentlemen in our homes will live forever through the publication of a new recipe book. From the Heart of Home is the name of the book, which is a compilation of classic recipes handed down through generations and recalled by the ladie...

New location

Our ladies had a trip out to a new location courtesy of the wonderful Nick from our tour operator Myley. He took us to Goytre Wharf where we had lovely stroll along the canal and then a tasty scone and cup of tea. Nothing beats some early autumn fresh air! #gallery-37 { margin: auto; }...

Singing and dancing

We had a lovely morning courtesy of  a local group called The Family Music Haven. There was lots of singing and dancing to our favourite music along with melodies played on the flute and piano. Thank you to Debbie and Heather for such a lovely morning. Our ladies and gentlemen had a fantastic time....

Lovely trip out

We had another lovely trip out courtesy of our travel partner Myley with our latest adventure taking us to Morris’ of Usk, which is a family run garden centre, food hall and restaurant in Llanbadoc. After a good mooch around the centre, we treated ourselves to a little spot of tea and a cake, ...

Move it or lose it

Our ladies and gentlemen were very motivated in our Move it or Lose it session with Marian. These exercise classes have been developed by experts to help improve  flexibility, aerobic health, balance and strength for greater strength. All the keep fit exercises are done seated so they are perfect f...

Magic table

We spent a little time on the tovertafel magic table talking about the music it played and the pictures as we recognised some of the tunes, we then reminisced about our childhood memories. A lovely afternoon. We are so lucky to have such an interactive and stimulating activity like this. #gal...

A lovely trip

We enjoyed a lovely trip to Llanfaes Dairy in Brecon courtesy of Nick from our tour partner Myley. We had a very enjoyable ride as we took in the sights of the beautiful mountains and valleys we are privileged to have on our doorstep, and not forgetting the amazing ice cream! #gallery-43 { ...

Around the world

We went around the world with a host of fun and stimulating activities for our ladies and gentlemen to enjoy as part of our eagerly-awaited flight week. Our destinations for the week were New York, Texas, Malta, India and Australia, and as you can see from the photographs, everyone had a great time!...

Summer fayre

What an absolutely amazing afternoon we had at Foxhunters at our annual summer fete, with a very noticeable Olympic theme. We were very well supported by lots of our residents families and friends and of course all the stallholders. A big thank you to all who attended, including the well behaved alp...

Retail therapy

We are fortunate to have a great partnership with our tour operator Myley, who take our ladies and gentlemen on some lovely trips out. This week they took us for some retail therapy at the Labels outlet shopping in Ross on Wye. It was so much fun doing a little shopping, going for coffee then having...

Foxhunters Olympics

Whilst we enjoyed watching the professional sportsmen and women do their stuff in Paris, the Foxhunters Olympics was where the real action was at. Our ‘Olympic’ sports included catch the goldfish, make a tower with playing cards and, not forgetting, the fancy dress dash around the garden...

The Inspiration to write

The successful re-launch of a book by a Foxhunters Care Assistant has given him the inspiration to write again – seven years after he finished writing. From 2015 to 2017, Matt Purkiss wrote three connected books telling the story of residents living in a fictional town whose lives are upended by a...

The age of air travel

With our around the world flight taking place across all of our homes this week we take a look at the history of air travel and how it has enabled us to visit destinations people could only used to dream about. It took only 12 seconds and covered a distance of just 40 yards but in North Carolina jus...

Allied invasion

Most people who were alive at the time will remember where they were on D-Day and how they first heard the news that the Allied invasion of Europe was underway. June 6 1944 saw 160,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy. Nearly a million more would follow that summer and gradually sweep n...

Benefiting old and young

The partnerships we have built up with local schools are important to us as we are big advocates of intergenerational care, a concept which brings different generations together to benefit both young and old. In May, we welcomed back pupils Llanfoist Fawr School. It was a beautiful Welsh day, so the...

Dementia Action Week

May is the month when the UK gets into full bloom – and it’s not just in the garden or countryside you’ll be seeing flowers emerging. The Forget Me Not appeal is an annual initiative that encourages people to wear a blue flower badge for the month of May to raise awareness and vital funds for ...

International Nurses Day

International Nurses Day is a day to celebrate and recognise the vital role that nurses play in all forms of health and social care in the UK and further afield. The value of nurses is well recognised at Dormy Care. We have qualified nurses working in all our homes and our founder and CEO, Helen Dav...

Amazing mountains

From her bedroom at Foxhunters, Vera Connolly can look out at the amazing mountains she used to enjoy walking on when she was younger. And she also likes to see all the comings and goings at the nearby household waste recycling centre, so there’s always an ever-changing landscape. And then there�...

Rubbed shoulders with legendary celebrities

Not many people can claim to have rubbed shoulders with legendary celebrities such as Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, and Frankie Vaughan. Or Royalty such as Princess Anne and the Duke of Edinburgh. But not many people are like Pam Savva! During her working life, Pam formed an a...

First impressions count

Gemma Carter is the first person most people see when they enter Foxhunters, and she very much understands that first impressions count. And with her background, we couldn’t have picked anyone better to be our Receptionist. In addition to her lovely bubbly personality, she comes from a customer se...

Part of the furniture

Debbie Powell is quite literally a part of the furniture at Foxhunters, having been here since the home opened. In fact, she joined whilst the home was still being built! Debbie, who is our Assistant Administrator, was part of the team who helped get Foxhunters open, including interviewing and induc...

Fun over Easter

Our ladies and gentlemen at Foxhunters had lots of fun at Easter, with various activities being organised to mark the long weekend, including eating some lovely hot cross buns, enjoying a comedy show in the bar, a musical sing-a-long courtesy of one of our talented gents and even a visit from the Ea...

Embracing history

Embracing history and culture is something which is important to us at Foxhunters, especially given our location in this beautiful part of Wales. A good recent example is our visit to Tintern Abbey. On a lovely sunny winter’s day we explored this amazing landmark and learned all about its hist...

Butterfly zoo

Our ladies and gentlemen enjoyed a lovely trip out to our local butterfly zoo, the perfect location on such a cold day. They got up close and personal with some beautifully coloured butterflies and ended the visit with a cuppa and cake in the coffee shop. #gallery-52 { margin: auto; } ...

Local schools

We are always delighted to welcomed back pupils from one of the two local schools we have forged excellent links with. Recently, we had another fantastic intergenerational activity with the children from Llanfoist Fawr Primary School. We all took part in an eggheads quiz and chatted about our favour...

A big sing and dance

We always make a big sing and dance about things at Foxhunters and our ladies and gentlemen wouldn’t have it any other way. Everyone is always up and on their feet when we have entertainers in the home and there was plenty of this during January and February, including our Burn’s Night c...

The finer things in life

Dormy Care Communities has teamed up with the UK’s largest specialist wine retailer to ensure the ladies and gentlemen in our homes can enjoy even more of the finer things in life. The new partnership with Majestic Wine ensures that the wines on offer in our homes are on a par with many top re...

National Trivia Day

Today is National Trivia Day, a day when we can celebrate our knowledge and a chance to get our ‘thinking caps’ on. Playing brain games and staying mentally active can significantly help to reduce and slow down the potential negative mental effects brought on by growing older, and can potential...

Christmas Fete

What a fantastic afternoon we have had here at Foxhunters today. We held our Christmas fete and there was lots of fun and excitement! We would like to say a huge thank you to all the stallholders for making our lovely mini-market such a success. And thank you to the very talented Richard Bevis fo...

Llanfoist school choir

Sharing her memories

Beryl Morgan spent her working career helping to put bad people in prison, and now she enjoys sharing her memories with the ladies and gentlemen at Foxhunters. There’s always a crowded room when Beryl gives one of her talks, with people rapt by her description of life as a Forensic Scientist. Bery...

Generations of people

There are generations of people living in Wales, and further afield, who have Lilian Jones to thank for teaching them how to speak Welsh. Lilian spent her entire career teaching, with the Welsh language and music her two specialisms. She taught in schools in Wales and England with her husband Geoff,...

Anita Jones

Up until very recently, 88-year-old former postmistress Anita Jones was very active – still able to drive, attending history classes, singing, and going to church, among many things. Unfortunately, falls which resulted in a broken leg and hip affected her mobility, so her family realised she neede...

Seal of approval

When it came to choosing a care home for their mum, Margaret Groom’s family knew that it would need to be somewhere their late father would have given his seal of approval to. That’s because Margaret was “the shining light” in their dad Fred’s life and he would have expected nothing but th...

5th anniversary

One of Wales’ oldest ladies was among the residents who celebrated the 5th anniversary of Foxhunters recently. Lorraine Steele was one of the first residents to move into the home when it opened in 2018 and joined other residents in raising a glass to the home when it marked its fifth birthday rec...

National Safeguarding Week

It’s National Safeguarding Week, an opportunity to highlight this hugely important subject and one we take incredibly seriously at Dormy. Across our Dormy Care Communities, safeguarding and protecting the ladies and gentlemen who live with us is our absolute priority every day of the year. Their w...

The joys of cycling

Residents at Foxhunters Care Community have been able to experience the joys of cycling the easy way thanks to a link-up with a local charity. Co-ordinated by the Volunteering for Wellbeing Project at the Bridges Centre charity in Monmouth, ‘Cycling Without Age’ sees volunteer “pilots” take ...

A Visit from Llanfoist Fawr Primary School

In the week their visits to the home featured in the Abergavenny Chronicle, we were delighted to welcome back the children from Llanfoist Fawr primary school today. The children are doing a project on World War One and the ladies and gentlemen shared memories and stories to assist with their work, a...

Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo

After such a lovely trip last time, today we returned to the Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo in Symons Yatt. We had another great time looking around at the plants and different butterflies. It’s an amazing place to go for a walk and sensory experience. And you even get butterflies landing on your he...

A Trip Out

Pumpkin Carving

Last of the summer sun!

Roald Dahl Day

Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo

A Trip Out for Tea and Cake

A Trip to St Woolos Cathedral

Bridging the generation gap

      A project which is aimed at bridging the generation gap between children and the elderly, with a particular emphasis on helping those with dementia, is being hailed a success. During the 2022/23 school year, children from Llanfoist Fawr Primary School and Llanvihangle Crucorney Primary Sch...

Our Four Legged Friends

Across our Dormy Care Communities, some of the most popular visitors we welcome into our homes have four legs and wagging tails. Today is National Dog Day and we wanted to say a huge thank you to our four-legged visitors who truly brighten the days of the ladies and gentlemen who live across our com...

Dormy Cruise Week Highlights

Morning Ball Games

Summer Crafting

A Morning on the Trishaw

Maltese Baking

Crafts with friends and family

Picking Veggies

Off We Go!

Arts and Crafts

Ball Games

Foxhunters Festival

Forget Glastonbury or Isle of Wight, the best festival to be at this year was the Foxhunters Summer Festival! With stalls and music, a falconer visit and balloon sculptor, even the rain couldn’t dampen the fun! In true festival style, everyone embraced the damp weather and carried on regardle...

Ball Games

Ambling Club

Morning Stretching

A Morning in the Garden

Thankful Thursday Gardening

A Trip out on the Trishaw Bike!

A little trip to town today. We were invited to take a look at the new trishaw bike that will be visiting us weekly starting next Wednesday. The charity “cycling without age” is going to help us get out and about and explore the local area, so watch out for more about this in the coming ...

A Comment from one of our Volunteers

“Why do I volunteer? Mainly because I like sharing and luckily for me I’m time – rich.  I began at Foxhunters having been trained by a charity known to Monmouthshire Libraries called The Reader. I love books, I love reading, and I especially love reading aloud.  So when I was given ...

Volunteers Week

IT”s Volunteers Week, a wonderful opportunity to mark the fantastic and positive contribution volunteers make across the country.   At Dormy Care Communities, we particularly value to contribution of volunteers both from within our homes and from the local communities around them.   Many...

The Coronation

The Choir for Good

Crafting for our summer fete

Working hard in the garden

Enjoying the Sun

It’s Defintely A Marathon And Not A Sprint For Alan

AN ‘ultra’ marathon effort by our very own Alan Jordon has helped to raise money for a charity dedicated to supporting people living with dementia. Alan, who works as a gardener at Foxhunters, recently ran 42 miles in an incredible seven hours in his first-ever ultra-marathon. The 58-year-old co...

Cheering on Alan

Amblers Club

Easter games

Memory rainbow and reading

The importance of Nutrition and Hydration

Good nutrition and hydration are vital to everybody’s health and well-being, but as we continue to age, this is not always as easy to maintain. It is believed that 25% of elderly people experience mild chronic dehydration and 10% are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. Older people are more l...

Activities for people who walk with purpose

Many of the ladies and gentlemen who live in our homes will have had pets at sometime during their lives, whether that’s a cat, dog, or even a goldfish. There’s a reason we call dogs man’s best friend and why studies have shown that cats can lower stress and anxiety. Our furry friends have a p...

The Puuurfect Companions in our Homes

Many of the ladies and gentlemen who live in our homes will have had pets at sometime during their lives, whether that’s a cat, dog, or even a goldfish. There’s a reason we call dogs man’s best friend and why studies have shown that cats can lower stress and anxiety. Our furry friends have a p...

Foxhunters in Luxury Care Home Guide

DORMY CARE COMMUNITIES FEATURED IN LUXURY CARE HOME GUIDE A LUXURY care home group has had two of its homes included in a prestigious national guide recognizing the finest residential care settings in the UK. Foxhunters in Abergavenny, Wales, and Brockington House in Hereford, both feature in the Kn...

Felting Workshop

St David’s Day

World Book Day

Music from Craig Balien

Snow Day

Our Magic Tables

At Dormy Care Communities, improving the quality of life for people living in our homes is one of our key goals and we are continually investing in new technology to enable us to realise this goal. An example is the introduction of a Magic Table in two of our care homes – Brockington House and Fox...

A Trip to the Garden Centre

Samantha Hockey Art Lesson

A Valentines Meal

Queen of Hearts Tea Party

Shrove Tuesday

Burns Night Celebration

Painting to Music

This afternoon we enjoyed a painting to music session. We took our inspiration from pieces we already had in the home and listened to classical music then put our interpretation of that on to paper. A lovely calming sensory activity and we really liked the end result as everyone’s picture...

Holli Singing for us

An Art Class with Llanfoist Primary School

Book Club

This morning Lis continued to host our book club. We read more of her book “I couldn’t even boil an egg” which has been very interesting. Lis told us of some of the crafts they used to sell in Isfahan and we are now hoping to try and recreate some of the items she saw. Lis also sha...

An Art Session with Samantha Hockey

Relaxing Tai Chi

An Afternoon of Games

Our Christmas Fete!

A Christmas Surprise

A visit from Llanfoist Primary

Celebrating 105 years!

A Christmas Party

Cocktail session

Christmas is coming!

A Visit from Animals Interactive

A Trip to the Butterfly Zoo!

What a wonderful day! This morning we enjoyed a visit to the Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo Such an amazing experience and lovely to see so many beautiful butterflies. We then popped over to the Old Court Hotel for some refreshments! Some of our ladies and gentlemen who couldn’t attend today̵...

Garden Dash!

Music from Craig

A Comical Murder Mystery

Entertainment from Eddie

Llanfoist Fawr Primary School Visit

Knit and Natter!

Remembrance Day

Pen Pals

This morning we had our letters delivered from Llanfoist Fawr Primary School PTFA We took turns in reading the letters and discussed the questions the children asked us. We had such a lovely visit from them last week and it was so nice to be able to put faces to the names of those writing to us...

The Christmas card competition has begun!

An afternoon of BINGO

Llanfoist Fawr Primary School Come to learn

Generations came together today as we welcomed Llanfoist Fawr Primary School PTFA to our home. We had a fantastic afternoon with the teachers and children. We talked about work they’re doing at the moment and reminisced about some items our ladies and gentlemen used and remembered their par...

A visit from Mossy

Knitter Natter

A Bird Display!

Some Interesting Mail

A Day of Creativity

Arts & Crafts

This morning we had a painting master class, we looked at some very well-known paintings and tried to recreate some of our favourites. We focused on Andy Warhol and decided to use the Mona Lisa as our canvas! We then painted her in the style of Marilyn Monroe’s pop art painting. Lots an...

Homegrown is Almost Best!

Art with Samantha Hockey

Colouring Therapy

Our Wildlife Board

Creative Writing Session

This afternoon we enjoyed another creative writing session hosted by Dody and a knitter natter session hosted by Betty! Working on our new project, we have started making scarfs again for our local church to give out during the winter months. We all enjoyed working on our first few paragrap...

Baking Club

Afternoon Cream Teas!

Glastonbury Themed Festival

Colette Mooney Visit and Talk

Today we enjoyed a visit from Colette Mooney. She gave a very inspiring talk on wildlife and how we can protect it in our garden. We took a walk around outside and looked for all kinds of bugs and discussed our thoughts on what we could do. We then made our own origami butterflies Colette ...

Tover Table Session

Italian Themed Cookery Class

A Day Trip to the Garden Centre

Music from Marcus

Shopping for some New Flowers

Enjoying Some Welsh Dancing

Art Class with Fresh Flowers

Picking Flowers in our Beautiful Garden

Coffee, Cake and a Quiz!

An Afternoon Art Class

Remembering James

A Coffee Morning with Cake!

Knitter Natter and Puzzles!

An Artistic Morning

A Trip to Keepers Pond

Enjoying the Sunshine

Some Musical Entertainment

Enjoying the Sun!

A Visit from a MP

A Really Wild Afternoon!

Painting some Pots!

An Ice Cream Visitor!

Learning to Knit!

Working in the Garden in the Sun

Ambling Club in the Sun

Sunny Entertainment

Art Class!

Garden Games

Shortbread Baking

Table Tennis

Flying A Kite

The Queens Jubilee

Fantastic Jubilee Spread

A Very British Falconry Display

Planting our Jubilee Time Capsule

Trooping the Colour

Gardening and Ambling Club

Robert’s Gym Dedication

Jubilee Collaboration!

A big thank you to Alun the Morrisons Abergavenny Community Champion who visited us today with seeds and messages of hope for the jubilee. We are going to write our message and decorate the paper chains they gave us which will be hung up in our local Morrisons shop over the jubilee celebrations. ...

A Puzzling Afternoon!

Jubilee Time Capsule

An Afternoon in the Garden

Jubilee Art Project

Ambling Group

A Trip to Linda Vista Gardens

Bake Sale

Pet Therapy

A Little Pampering

Tovertafe Games!

A Beautiful Walk

Easter at Foxhunters

A Trip Out!

Baking Club

A Bit Of Morning Gardening

A Day At The Races

Colour Therapy

We enjoyed some colour therapy. Colour therapy, also known as chromotherapy, is a form of therapy that uses colour and light to treat certain mental and physical health conditions. We can trace this form of therapy back to the ancient Egyptians. They made use of sun-filled rooms with coloured gla...

Making Easter Decorations

A Visit from Lynne Allbutt

Easter Arts and Crafts

Planting For Spring

An Active Morning in the Sun

Gardening in the sunshine!

A lovely trip out and about!

Sunny afternoon entertainment

A bit of morning baking

Nose and Spoon Race!

Pet Therapy

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Nutrition and Hydration Week

It’s Nutrition and Hydration Week “Tasty Tuesday” with a focus on snacks. Not everyone wants a big meal and we offer a variety of nutritious and tasty snacks for everyone to enjoy. Particularly beneficial for those who prefer to graze throughout the day. #nhweek #carehomefood Dormy Care ...

An afternoon of knitting

St Patrick’s Day preperation

Cruise week at Foxhunters

A Knitting Challenge

Flag Making

Tea Party

Celebrating Love!

A Special Visit from Honey

The Big Bird Watch

Creating leaves for our Dignitree

A bit of pet therapy!

New Years Knitting

A Performance by Beryl

Starting the Year with some Arts and Crafts

A Festive Christmas at Foxhunters

Dancing Feet!

Pet Therapy

Christmas Fruit Cakes

Christmas Arts and Crafts

Learning Macramé

The Smell of Christmas Baking

There seems to be a naughty elf in Foxhunters

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…!

Remembrance Day

Birthday Celebrations!

An arts and crafts session

A Monday sing along

Halloween at Foxhunters!

Christmas card competition!

Today we started designing our Christmas cards for the annual Foxhunters Christmas card competition! We used images from other cards to give us a little inspiration and our friends were more than happy to chip in with their advice for what makes a good Christmas card! We will keep you posted on...

Put those thinking caps on!

A mindful morning

Halloween is fast approaching!

Looking after our gardens!

Raising money for MacMillan, painting and lots of exercise!

We had our Macmillan Coffee Morning! We managed to raise £107 so far with donations still coming in!! Well done team Foxhunters Plenty of laughs today with our flower painting session, great creative work followed by a nice cup of tea and biscuits! Tai Chi and daily mindfulness session was full to...

A week full of exercise!

We had a great turnout for our Oomph Wellness ramblers this week! The weather was beautiful and our ladies and gentlemen got some great exercise in! Everyone gets involved in our Oomph Wellness exercise group and sing along! Dianna took charge and showed us some dance moves! We enjoyed a relaxing ta...

Knitter Knatter, Crafts and Some Pampering

Music and art were a hit with the ladies and gentlemen this week. Creating mountains, gardens and all sorts, using mixed media. Our knitter natter group has become very popular and the ladies now meet a few times a week! We looked through some knitting patterns for inspiration for our next project! ...

Crafts and Crosswords

Our quiz and crossword group gathered in our café. We love challenging each other on our general knowledge and seeing how much of today’s crossword we can complete by putting our heads together. We all did some arts and crafts with glue, glitter and paint, accompanied by a nice cup of tea. ...

Boxing, ballet and some delicious treats

This week we have been getting super active! Round One! We did some sitting exercise with a boxing lesson, it was great fun and a fantastic workout! Lots of cakes and refreshments for our ladies and gentlemen to enjoy! Wonderfully modelled by our new team member and activities coordinator Matt It�...

Expressive Art Therapy

Tea tasting

Gymnastics week

Knitter Knatter!

Gardening Club

A rainy afternoon of games

Foxhunters Summer Holiday: St Davids

Seaside Treats!

Beach Volleyball

Foxhunters Summer Holiday: Spain!

Summer Holiday Fish and Chips!

Foxhunter’s Summer Holiday: Day Two Barry Island!

Foxhunter’s Summer Holiday: Day One Margate!

Foxhunters Ambling Group

Making some bunting

Growing our own veg!

Fresh Lemonade

Ice cream in the garden

An afternoon of art projects

A beautiful summers day

Feel good Friday!

An afternoon of art projects

An afternoon cooking demonstration!

Crafting cement planters

Terrariums for our home

A trip to the salon

Art and flower arranging

Learning a new craft

Welcoming back our shared reading group

A trip to Skenfrith Castle

Picking some flowers

Oomph exercise!

Shared reading group

Scrabble Club

Foxhunters Street Party

Fathers Day in Foxhunters

Songs in the garden

Working hard in the gym

A bit of tea tasting

A delicious afternoon tea

A healthy start to the day at Foxhunters

Growing our own!

Nutrition and Hydration Week at Foxhunters

It’s Nutrition and Hydration week, an annual event to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration. Reinforce, Focus and Energise. Starting the day with delicious smoothies and delicious snacks that are always available. #nutritionandhydratio...

A glorious Welsh summer day!

HRH Birthday!

A bit of needle felting

Who doesn’t love Ice Cream!

Afternoon Bowling

Thank you carers!

Carers Week at Foxhunters

A sunshine sing-song

Garden archery

A trip on the minibus!

The Great Dormy Coach Trip: Route 66

Day two of our Great Dormy Coach Journey and we will be taking the Greyhound along Route 66. Looking forward to exploring some of the amazing sights along the way and a cable car ride on the Sandia Peak tramway. We will be sampling a great American menu with authentic pizzas, Coca Cola and del...

The Great Dormy Coach Trip: Amsterdam

The Great Dormy Coach Journey: Day one!

A bit of song and dance

A little morning exercise

Keeping mindful

Oomph Garden Competition

Getting garden creative!

Garden Art Projects

Garden Planters!

Garden Preperations

VE Day Celebrations!

National African Heritage Day

An afternoon of dancing

Keeping active with Oomph!

National Gardening Week

Rock painting

Afternoon Cinema Club!

What a lovely morning

Earth Day 2021

BINGO!

Oil pastel art!

HRH Prince Philip

See you again Glenda!

Titanic Remembrance Day

Enjoying some new poetry

A lesson about Pit Ponies

A few Easter games!

Finishing off our easter treats

Working off those Easter treats!

Easter Sunday at Foxhunters

A Foxhunters wedding anniversary!

Nora the Newt

A concert and dancing

Some word association

Wire bird making

Foxhunters Day or Reflection

We held a very special memorial service yesterday and lit our memory tree. Our ladies and gentlemen helped pick out poetry and readings to share. The artwork displayed is the one we created in the lockdown with all our hands. We then hung names on our tree to remember those we have lost. ...

Sunday gym sessions

Horse racing

Spring art challenge

St Patricks Day

Foxhunters Mothers Day

Armchair football!

Bingo!

Foxhunters Poetry Club

New Gym Routines

An afternoon of Art!

Spring is in the air!

St David’s Day

National Bread Week

Foxhunters Pampering

Foxhunters Mobile Library

Pancakes to Order!

Valentines Day

National Teddy Bear Day

Chinese New Year Decorations

Points Win Prizes!

Morning Exercise

Our Mobile Library!

National Chocolate Cake Day

‘Snow’ much fun!

Oomph Wellness Session

Milkshake Party!

Knit and Natter!

Starting the New Year with an exercise class

A Day of Activities!

A ‘puzzling’ start to the new year!

A Concert from Vienna

An afternoon of Tai Chi

A Very Merry Christmas

A Christmas Pampering!

Carols and Cake!

Christmas Arts & Crafts!

Calming Sensory Sessions

We enjoy our morning sensory sessions. They are a calming way to start the day. There are lots of benefits of sensory stimulation including increased levels of concentration and improvement of daily function and cognitive symptoms. They also help improve communication through several differ...

Christmas around the world.

We thought it be interesting to sample different traditions, at Christmas, around the world. Yesterday was Japan. Did you know that the traditional Christmas meal is a KFC? We enjoyed sampling fried chicken followed by strawberry shortcake for dessert! Merry Christmas from everyone at Foxhunt...

Keeping Active!

You make me feel like dancing …

Enjoying some gentle movement after our morning exercise class with Oomph Wellness, We enjoy our daily sessions with Oomph and have a range of different exercises and fun challenges to complete. It’s good to keep on moving and we look forward to getting together for these sessions. Get in tou...

Foxhunters – Best Patio and Best overall garden

This summer we have had a Dormy Care gardening competition! With breath-taking views of the Welsh hills, everyone was involved in creating a magnificent garden for all to enjoy. Beautiful patios with abundance of colour, hanging baskets and raised beds, a greenhouse full of home-grown vegetables and...

98 year old ice hockey fan meets local team – The Cardiff Devils

Robert’s Bucket List… Making precious memories! Robert is 98 and resides at our home Foxhunters Care Community in Abergavenny. Last Friday, he was up at 2am having a shave, filled with excitement. The home arranged for him to go to Cardiff and meet the Devils Ice Hockey Team. Before the...

Ladies at Foxhunters knit pouches for animals affected by Australian fires

Following the devastating fires in Australia, our ladies have been using their knitter natter sessions to knit pouches, blankets and hats to send to all the little joeys that have lost their mums during the fires. The knitted pouches offer comfort to the animals who have experienced such trauma, and...

We’re getting into the Christmas spirit at Foxhunters!

It’s our second Christmas in Foxhunters this year and we are already feeling festive! Our ladies and gentlemen have been getting into the Christmas spirit, with lots of seasonal activities and festive cheer to go around. With a few new faces in Foxhunters this year, we’ve been thinking back to o...

Residents share their experiences of Foxhunters during home’s 1st birthday celebration

We celebrated our 1st birthday last week here at Foxhunters – and wow – what a year it’s been! We’ve welcomed so many wonderful residents, won the UK’s Luxury Care Home of the Year award and launched our own internal Dormy awards after witnessing many of our colleagues go above and beyond....

Inspiring Attitude of Foxhunters Resident who says “I Can, and I Will” Everyday

This lovely gentleman who lives at Foxhunters in Abergavenny has started enjoying the gym twice a day and has taken to saying “I can, and I will” throughout his sessions! Not only does he enjoy his time in the gym, his body is fitter and stronger, and his wellbeing has improved. At his grand age...

Famous Welsh singer Bryn Yemm visits Foxhunters Care Community

Famous Abergavenny-raised singer, Bryn Yemm, paid a visit to Foxhunters Care Community this week to see his favourite schoolteacher and Foxhunters resident, Miss Brown. Since attending King Henry VIII Comprehensive School in Abergavenny, where he was taught by Miss Brown, Bryn went on to become an a...

A fantastic day had at Foxhunters’ care home open day

The ladies and gentlemen of Foxhunters have been having a ball today at Care Home Open Day, with a fantastic performance by the pupils of the Deri View Primary School choir. Residents also gave their own performance, singing the 1956 classic Que Sera Sera (Whatever will be, will be) to the smiling p...