Elgar Court Care Home Makes A Wish Come True For Local Family

Each day, Elgar Court Care Home celebrates a resident in their own right, by make them the ‘Resident of the Day!’

Elgar Court Care Home wanted to share this experience with the local community, so ran a competition in December called ‘Make A Wish this Christmas’. The newly opened Care Home had a number of entries and chose Maggie Hooper’s wish for a day out on a steam train for her train obsessed toddler! Maggie said “Oscar said ‘Choo Choo’ before he said mum!”

Elgar Court were happy to make the children’s wish come true and bought Maggie and her family tickets to ride a Steam train on the Severn Valley Railway and best of all, to meet the Gruffalo – their favourite book character! Maggie said, “My boys and I were lucky enough to win their make a wish competition, which we spotted on their Facebook following a visit to Santa at Elgar Court Care Home last year. We asked for a train ride for my boys who cannot get enough of trains. Naomi from Elgar Court arranged for us to not only get a train ride but to meet the Gruffalo, which luckily coincided with our youngest sons first birthday. We have had a lot going on the last few months and this was exactly the day we needed. We had the most wonderful time, thank you so much Elgar Court for making our boys’ birthday so special!

Maggie’s other wish was for the local food banks to receive funds to support them in the new year, as they often see a decline in support following the Christmas generosity and with so many families struggling it’s needed so much. Elgar Court Care Home were happy to contribute towards this, by baking and decorating eight lavish Christmas cakes in the style of Christmas tree baubles, for the local food banks to give to families – which was also promoted by the Malvern Gazette and won the Barchester’s best Christmas cake award! Elgar Court Care Home will be pleased to continue gifting to foodbanks throughout the year.

Sarah Cadwallader, General Manager at the home, said: “We believe that every moment is worth cherishing. We want everyone to know how important residents and our community is to us here at Elgar Court Care Home. It is testament to the hard work and dedication of the team here in making wishes come true. And it was truly wonderful to see how happy it made the Hooper family”.