Get Airborne at Melbournes Big Draw
Eastgate Care entered the Big Draw during October with our grand finale at Melbourne House
Charise Activity Coordinator organising the event, decided to give their Big Draw a real lift and launch the sculptures made by residents, friends, family, staff and service visitors;

Charise-Activity Coordinator, pictured (looking a bit like a Mary Poppins!) is excited to be launching the sculptures which they have all made at Melbourne House. Friends & family came to join in too!
Our local City Councillor - Councillor Jenkins came along to support our event, it was great to have him involved in 'the action'
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This was a national art activity throughout October, that all our Homes and Activity Co-ordinators participated in – using cost effective telephone wire which is light and easy to use to mould into individual sculptures. 'Following a great days training we felt this idea could work for us and be less intimidating for a lot of people who dont like drawing' Charise then came up with this great idea to provide more of an event and launch by balloon. Pictured Care Worker Amary trying her hand.

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Madaline (who celebrated a BIG birthday earlier this year) and her daughter get wiring, quite a fiddly job, but they both managed to create something!

The challenge is to get the most participants for a Care Home setting, so we are now counting up.
We had help from Nottingham Confetti with filming this event and would like to say thank you to them for their very responsive reaction getting photographer Mikey along, he made a fantastic effort and contributed really well to the activity.
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Sculpture ready for launch.
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Charise smiles with relief to 'see off' the Big Draw! |
Mikey prepares for filming.

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Posted on 30 Oct 2012
Park House Prepare for Big Draw Lift Off
Activities Coordinator Kerry decided, with the residents at Park House, to adopt 'Hearts and Flowers' for their creative theme entering into the Big Draw - In Lines, using wire.
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Kerry pictured gets ready for a double twist, not only do they twist the wire to make individual sculptures, they are going to launch them into the sky with Helium.
The Big Draw is the world’s biggest celebration of drawing. It has grown into a month-long festival running throughout October in all parts of the UK. Every year more organisers across the world join the Big Draw family and run drawing events to engage their communities in creative activities. |
Some of the wire creations made by residents, staff and visitors to the Care Home.

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'I went round the home and asked the residents what would they like to make, to join in this event and a lot of them said hearts and flowers as they felt this would go with theme of using the tree in the garden as part of the sculpture' said Kerry
I managed to get most of the residents to participate, lots of the staff and visitors too. We then recorded this in our own Big Draw book. |
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Watch out for further news of the Grand Finale as our sculptures become airborne and we compete for the most 'Big Drawers' from a Care Home setting. |
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Posted on 25 Oct 2012
Homes are Under Control!
Infection Control is Under Control! - A sterling success, it has to be said, by our Care teams at both Park and Melbourne House achieving control results of almost 100% (98% & 97% respectively) What this means to us is that our cleanliness is of the highest level......................
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............. we can rest assured that our efforts on a daily basis have been properly assessed by the PCT and that we are offering our residents the utmost in ’personal’ conditions in their daily environment.
We were all really pleased with the outcome as we have worked hard over the last couple of months to reach this very exacting standard. | |
Jacqui Inglis – Care Home Manager at Park House said ‘I am very proud of the team who are all working hard and have together attained a fantastic result and we will be endeavouring to maintain this excellent standard all year round’ |
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Posted on 12 Oct 2012
Sculpt with us for Our Big Draw - In Lines
The Big Draw is the world’s biggest celebration of drawing. It has grown into a month-long festival running throughout October in all parts of the UK. Every year more organisers across the world join the Big Draw family and run drawing events to engage their communities in creative activities.
This year's theme is 'In Lines'
We at all our Care Homes are entering the Big Draw Contest - it is a national art activity that all our Homes and Activity Co-ordinators can participate in and ‘enjoy’
Our Big Draw will be wire based – using cost effective telephone wire which is light and easy to use for ‘all’ , however due to a ‘run’ on this product we now have to have wire shipped in from New York! |
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The wire can be moulded into individual sculptures, which will then be launched by helium balloon or made into garden sculptures at Alexandra House.
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