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T his year, we’re acting on your feedback and bringing back the ‘Blooming Marvellous Gardener’ category into our Loving Later Life Awards, to replace our separate Gardening Competition. With categories recognising grandparents to pets, technology savvy surfers to wonderful neighbours, our Loving Later Life awards help celebrate those making a real difference in their Anchor community. Any resident can be nominated by fellow residents, colleagues, friends, and family. So, if you know a worthy winner, look out for details of when the award nomination window opens this summer and make sure you put them forward. Celebrate members of your community
Grow your own soup
A nchor has been recognised as an accredited employer by the Living Wage Foundation. This means our organisation commits to implementing the Living Wage Foundation’s Real Living Wage rates (independently calculated to meet the cost of living) following an annual pay review each spring. While we pay a range of salaries to our colleagues, none of them are below the Real Living Wage rate. We also understand the benefits of a multigenerational workforce, for our organisation and our residents, and have signed up to the Age-friendly Employer Pledge with The Centre for Ageing Better. It’s a nationwide programme for UK employers who Supporting our colleagues
recognise the importance and value of older workers. If know someone who would like to work for Anchor, they can take a look at the opportunities available across our care, housing, or support teams at www.Anchor.org.uk/Careers
C elia Binns and The Gardening Group at Earls Lodge, Failsworth won our Best Fruit and Vegetables category in last year’s Gardening Competition. Here’s Celia’s tip for growing your own soup from scratch, to enjoy yourself or share with your community. “Fill a 24-inch diameter plant pot with compost, then plant five carrot seeds, two or three onion sets, two turnip seeds and three celery seeds and that’s your soup mix completed.” “We also prefer to grow our Tumbling Tom tomatoes in hanging baskets for residents to help themselves when ripe. Our community also enjoy picking peas in their pods and harvesting potatoes from grow bags.”
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your own time, including ones covering Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, poetry, PDSA Pet First Aid Training, and our Creative Care Kit. We’ve also partnered with The Skills Network to provide easy access to government funded Level 2 qualifications at no cost. For more information about Be Skilled or the
qualifications, email BeWell@Anchor.org.uk or call 07523 943 501* .
that they can’t learn new skills. But anyone can learn new skills and knowledge, which can help fight against dementia too. To help our residents continue to grow and learn, Be Skilled - our free and exclusive online learning resource - offers courses to do in
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