January 14, 2014

Party Time at the Fusion

For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the Fusion Centre is in Birkenhead in the Wirral and supports people aged over 55 who have additional needs such as disabilities or dementia.

The team there help people to stay engaged with their community and reduce social isolation. Unfortunately, the service had a rather challenging pre-Christmas period last year; they had a serious gas leak over the two days that their Christmas party was meant to happen. Therefore, a serious rethink had to be done so that the team didn’t have to totally cancel the whole event. But the shining armour came out and the tenants in one of our other Wirral based services (the sheltered housing scheme) came to the rescue.

An Elfing hand at Vincent Naughton Court: and (with a little more time on hand in this instance) their chef was able to cook the Christmas dinner.

Again, all the tenants helped to make the day special but in particular one of the tenants, Doreen William, dressed as a little elf and helped serve lunches and give Christmas pressies out, making it a day to remember. What a lovely example of different services, teams and people using our services, helping each other out at times of crisis and making Christmas really special for others.

Christmas Spirit at Rose Court: The tenants at Rose Court kindly let the Fusion Centre use their communal lounge to hold their dinner and party and a local pub prepared the Christmas dinners required for take out.

The tenants all helped collect the meals, serve them and made the day very special for the Fusion Centre service users.