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Abbeyfield Sponsors EAC Art Award

The Abbeyfield Society recently sponsored the £1,000 Angela Farnell Memorial Prize as part of the EAC Over 60s Art Awards, a national art competition encouraging and celebrating the talents of older people.

Historic Wimbledon Care Home in merger with Abbeyfield

Lee House and Abbeyfield announce that operational control of Lee House, the historic Wimbledon Home for older women, passed to Abbeyfield in July.

Paul Allen - Abbeyfield Society Chief Executive

The Abbeyfield Society, one of the largest voluntary sector UK wide providers of housing support and care for older people, recently welcomed Paul Allen as its new Chief Executive Officer. In a recent article in the Daily Telegraph Paul discusses his plans for the movement.

League of Mercy Award for Oxted volunteer

Abbeyfield Volunteer Joan Caden has been given a national award for her services to volunteering with elderly people in the county. Oxted resident Joan, was honoured with a League of Mercy medal for her work with national housing charity Abbeyfield at a ceremony in London on 4 June.

Royal Recognition For A Remarkable Volunteer

The outstanding contribution to Abbeyfield made by Abbeyfield UK (NI) Vice Chairman, Mr Peter Howard, was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List when he was awarded an MBE.

Yarmouth Abbeyfield 10th Anniversary Celebrations

On the 7th May 2008 the Yarmouth Abbeyfield on the Isle of Wight celebrated its 10th Anniversary.

Abbeyfield Joins the Happy List

The Independent on Sunday newspaper recently published the ‘Happy List’, celebrating those Britons who have “given back, enhanced the lives of others and realised that in an acquisitive society there's a crying need for values other than mere materialism”.

Staveley House, Official opening of Bechshaw Wing

The Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria, Mr James Cropper, performed the official opening ceremony on Tuesday 18th March by unveiling a commemorative plaque in the entrance to the new Bechshaw Wing at Staveley House in Cumbria.

Abbeyfield Society Search For Chief Executive Officer

The search for the new Chief Executive Officer of The Abbeyfield Society and Abbeyfield UK began on Sunday, 24th February with an advertisement in the Sunday Times and then in the Guardian on Wednesday 27th February.

Celebrations at Abbeyfield in Alfriston

Residents, staff and volunteers were joined by well wishers including Lady Edna Healey, to celebrate the opening of the new conservatory at the Abbeyfield house in Alfriston, East Sussex.

Abbeyfield Quorn wins Design Award

The Leicestershire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England recently announced the winners of its 2007 design awards. The Mary Holloway Garden Room Extension at Abbeyfield House in Quorn won a commended nomination in the category 'Building or group of buildings within an urban or rural area'.

High Achievers at Horsted Keynes

Pictured here are several of the dedicated and happy band of staff based at the Abbeyfield Mid Sussex Society’s Westall House at Horsted Keynes. These staff have recently achieved passes in registered managers’ awards, NVQ levels 2-3 in care, chef and domestics awards and attended an award ceremony at Westall House on 6th December with an appreciative audience of residents and members of the Westall House Committee.

Clifton House, Isle of Wight Wins first Prize in Isle Of Wight Healthy Eating Alliance Awards 2007

Abbeyfield UK’s Clifton House on the Isle of Wight took first prize in the awards celebrating best practice and policy in healthy eating in a variety of settings across the Isle of Wight. The winners were announced at a Celebration Event at the Royal London Yacht Club in Cowes on 30 November and Lois Rogers from Clifton House collected the award on behalf of Abbeyfield UK.

Abbeyfield is saddened to announce the death of Susan Carr-Gomm

The Abbeyfield Society is, wife of Abbeyfield’s founder, Richard Carr-Gomm. Susan died after a very short illness at the end of last month. Married in October, 1957,