News and events

Aylesbury’s Lucy Cox started a new job this week at the Business Support Centre during Disability Employment Awareness Month. Lucy, aged 32, is a tenant at Aylesbury Supported Living for adults with learning disabilities, which is run by the Trust. She applied for the role of supporting and...

The Mayor of Leighton-Linslade, Cllr Clive Palmer, and Mayoress, Rosie Palmer, joined residents, their families and employees at Carey Lodge residential home in Wing, run by The Fremantle Trust, for a special Memory Walk on Friday 21st September, which marked World Alzheimer’s Day. Set up by the...

Brenda Beard, a resident at Apthorp Care Centre in New Southgate, run by The Fremantle Trust, embraced her love of music during an exclusive singing experience arranged for her during World Alzheimer’s Month. Aged 79, Brenda submitted an application to have singing lessons to the Trust’s Wishes and...

The Mayor of Leighton-Linslade, Cllr Palmer, was joined by the Mayoress, residents and employees from local care provider, The Fremantle Trust, for a ‘blooming’ great day at its annual horticultural awards, which took place at Wing-based residential home, Carey Lodge. The competition saw more than...

Phyllis Blanch and Jean Smith have become inseparable friends at Carey Lodge residential home in Wing and took the opportunity to celebrate their special bond on Monday, which marked International Friendship Day. In 2011 the 30th July was declared International Friendship Day by the General...

The manager of nursing and residential home, Fremantle Court, run by local care provider and charity, The Fremantle Trust, presented Stoke Mandeville Ambulance Service with special cakes to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday, as part of wider celebrations across the Trust. Antonios Loumousiotis and...

Residents from Dell Field Court residential home in Finchley, joined children from Smile and Shine Nursery at Victoria Park for a special feast to mark National Picnic Month. The Trust’s leisure and lifestyle manager, Fiona Swynnerton, came up with an intergenerational culinary theme to take...

Robin Comerford has joined The Fremantle Trust as a regional director for its older people’s services across Bucks and north London. With a passion for ensuring quality of life and wellbeing for older people, especially in dementia care, Robin joins the Trust having held regional operational roles...

Carey Lodge welcomed more than 40 scooter enthusiasts as part of a special summer rally, which prompted nostalgia among residents with a penchant for scooters and motorbikes. The popular event was first set up four years ago by the Trust’s leisure and lifestyle manager, Sue Faulkner, in partnership...

Volunteer, Mandy Hetherton, has spent four years as a shared reading facilitator at Apthorp Care Centre, and urges others to consider giving back to their communities in support of Volunteers’ Week. The annual awareness week celebrates the great work carried out by volunteers as well as recognising...