As November drew to a close, viagra order students from Gloucestershire College (GC) helped to spread some Christmas magic across 4 of Gloucester City Homes (GCH) sheltered housing schemes.
GCH owns and manages 12 sheltered housing schemes, medicine which are home to over 400 people aged 55 and over, advice across Gloucester. Many of the schemes use their lounges as community facilities, serving both those living at the scheme and in the community.
Students studying Health & Social Care, Art and Discover Opportunities helped put up and create new Christmas decorations across the communal areas in GCH’s schemes in Tuffley, Abbeydale, Barton and Podsmead.
Level 3 Art students worked at Oliver Close to make Christmas cards and help transform the lounge into a beautiful winter wonderland using only scrap materials and their imaginations.
Level 1 Health & Social Care students engaged with tenants from both Charter Court and Halford House to create decorations and then use these to makeover the lounges. Working alongside tenants and residents the students created reems of festive paper chains.
Finally, Discover Opportunities students worked their decorating magic at Nightingale House. The students then socialised with residents and were even challenged to a game of scrabble. As an extra gift the students created a personalised bauble for each resident, which proved a big hit.
All schemes now look beautifully festive in time for Christmas and residents are enjoying their own winter wonderlands. Both students and residents benefitted from the activities, working together and interacting with different people.
This activity represents the value in partnership working and GCH works with many partners across the City to bring value and skills to people of all ages and abilities.
Brett Cowley, GCH Wellbeing Support Officer at Nightingale House commented “The students from the college did a great job of transforming our lounge. By encouraging tenants to work alongside the students made a great excuse to make an event out of the activity. It was great to see tenants and students mixing and bridging the generational gap. Well done to everyone involved for making our schemes such great places to work and live”.
Vikki Chandler, GC Coach, who led the project added “It was lovely to see the transformations that our students could make and also to see them engaging with and including the elderly residents.”