St Monica Trust

💜 Tomorrow is @age-uk.bsky.social’s #SilverSunday – a national day to celebrate older people and tackle loneliness through free events across the country.

It’s a wonderful reminder of the importance of connection and community.

Find an event near you here: www.ageuk.org.uk/services/sil...

This week, residents from across our sites enjoyed visiting two local breweries, Left Handed Giant and @bristolbeerfactory.bsky.social!

We learnt more about the brewing process for our #HoppinessProject where we’re following our hops on their journey to becoming our special centenary beer.

An unforgettable charity dinner in aid of Weston Hospicecare 💜

With amazing food from Pullman Café and live entertainment, it was a great night of fundraising. Together we raised over £3676 to support free palliative care.

Thank you to everyone who made this night possible! 🙌

As part of our #HoppinessProject, our residents and colleagues worked side by side to harvest our hops. 🌿

The harvest was a wonderful example of teamwork, #connection, and #contribution.

We can’t wait to taste what’s brewed for our #centenary beer!

Photos by Guy Manchester, Hoppiness Brews.

🍻 Help us name our centenary beer! 🍻

Tap into your creativity and come up with an inspiring name for our centenary brew.

Please send your suggestions to hoppiness@stmonicatr... with a short rationale by Sunday 21 September.

Find out more 👉 www.stmonicatrust.or...

As part of a first for
@careinnovchallenge.bsky.social, we were delighted to host the Care Innovation Challenge semi-finalists at The Chocolate Quarter last month to pitch their innovations in both B2B and B2C scenarios ahead of the Care Show this October. 💡

Read their blog to find out more!

Thank you to everyone who joined us today, including the Care Innovation Challenge semi-finalists, their mentors, the @ncfcareforum.bsky.social team, and our residents and colleagues.

Good luck to the teams at the Care Show in October!

@careinnovchallenge.bsky.social #Innovation #CareInnovation

A chance for the @careinnovchallenge.bsky.social innovators to share their ideas with the St Monica Trust senior leadership team!

From AI-driven innovations to an oral health solution for people with dementia, their informative pitches are inspiring our own #innovation efforts.

Creating solutions together with the ‘user’ is vital to ensuring new innovations are as beneficial as possible, which is why it’s great to have our ‘resident innovators’ contributing today and sharing their thoughts as the @careinnovchallenge.bsky.social semi-finalists pitch their ideas to them.

Looks like an amazing day of #innovation! Thanks @stmonicatrust.bsky.social for hosting this fantastic meeting of great minds between the @careinnovchallenge.bsky.social semi-finalists & mentors and the resident innovators. What a great opportunity for our Challengers to learn & develop their ideas!

We’re delighted to be hosting the @careinnovchallenge.bsky.social semi-finalists today!

These inspiring entrepreneurs, along with the @ncfcareforum.bsky.social team, are joining us to see our flagship #innovation, The Chocolate Quarter, and meet our resident innovators and commercial stakeholders.

YouTube video by Bristol Beacon Our Music Club: Using music to improve the quality of life of those with dementia and their carers

We’re proud to support the amazing work @bristolbeacon.bsky.social does with older people, enriching lives through the power of music! 🎶

Bristol Beacon’s Our Music Club makes a real difference to those living with dementia and their carers.

Find out more here: bristolbeacon.org/community-pr...

We are proud to have funded the When Advice Really Matters (WARM) service delivered by Citizens Advice South Gloucestershire for two years. 🫂

Referred mainly by GP surgeries and social prescribers, WARM offers crucial advice on debt, housing, and low income. 🌟

What a great day at our Centenary Garden Party last week, hosted at the stunning Old Down Country Park!

This free well-being day is our way of saying thank you to our colleagues and volunteers for their commitment and dedication to creating communities where older people flourish.

One week to go until our #Centenary Garden Party at Old Down Country Park! 🎉

This is a free well-being event for our colleagues, volunteers and their families, and a chance for us to celebrate our Centenary and thank them for their hard work.

We would like to offer our condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Robert Bourns who sadly passed away last week. Robert had been a Trustee since 2022 and Chair of the Charitable Foundation Committee. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

It was great to be featured in Bristol24/7 as we celebrate our Centenary!

Bristol24/7 visited our founding site, Cote Lane, to retrace our journey through time and explore the work we do today.

Read more ⬇️
www.bristol247.com/n...

Major Bristol care provider celebrates its 100th birthday A celebratory afternoon tea was held for residents of St Monica Trust, which has homes across Bristol.

Did you read about our Centenary celebrations on BBC News Bristol?

If you missed it, see here ⬇️

We are so proud to be part of the @impactalliance.bsky.social – working collaboratively to address #loneliness in our region.

Today we are very pleased to announce our six pilot communities and enabler organisations.

For more information, please go to our website: impact-alliance.co.uk

More #Centenary celebrations! 🎉

Last Thursday was a truly special day for St Monica Trust as residents across all our villages and care homes came together for a joyful afternoon of Garden Parties to mark #100YearsOfCare.

See more here 👉 www.stmonicatrust.org.uk/our-expertis...

Did you catch us on ITV West Country yesterday? 📺

Ellie Barker joined us at Cote Lane, our founding site, to hear more about our landmark celebration to mark our 100th anniversary.

📹 Watch the full story here (starts from 10 minutes, 34 seconds): www.itv.com/watch/news/c...

🎉 100 years of care 🎉

Yesterday, residents, colleagues and friends of St Monica Trust gathered at @bristolcathedral.bsky.social for a special Centenary Service of Thanksgiving to mark 100 years of compassionate provision - celebrating the Trust's past and looking forward to the future!

We're proud to be fund impactful work through our #DigitalInclusion Fund! 💻

North Somerset Training CIC states that their digital inclusion project we support “has significantly enriched the lives of seniors, promoting digital inclusion and enhancing their overall well-being.”

🤝 #LonelinessAwarenessWeek reminds us that #loneliness is something we can all experience.

Promoting greater connections are at the heart of our work — from daily life in our villages and care homes to the projects we fund across the region and our involvement with @impactalliance.bsky.social.

Our villages and care homes have been busy celebrating #NationalVolunteersWeek 🎉

This week is an opportunity to take time to celebrate the invaluable contributions of our volunteers and celebrate their dedication to making a difference in our communities.🌟

The St Monica Trust has held the south west’s first-ever Healthy Ageing and Care Innovation Forum. The forum was hosted by the Trust’s Centre of Innovation and was dedicated to encouraging collaboration and fresh-thinking between partner organisations within the health and social care sector. A seri Innovation Forum: Healthy Ageing and Care Innovation

Some highlights from our #HealthyAgeing and #CareInnovation Forum! 💡

Earlier this year, we hosted a brilliant day of insight, energy, and #collaboration at our Cote Lane retirement village.

🎥 Take a look and hear directly from those who contributed: www.youtube.com/watc...

We’re proud to fund Southmead Development Trust’s amazing work supporting older people to contribute to #community action projects and activities.

A recent highlight? The joyful, intergenerational Diaspora Festival! One attendee said: “This is heart and soul, I'll be back.” 🕺

We are pleased to launch a new thematic fund offering core funding for organisations that support older people to live their best lives.

Expressions of Interest are open until midday on Friday 27 June 2025.

Find out more about our new fund 👉 www.stmonicatrust.or...

On Saturday, more than 20 colleagues from across St Monica Trust joined the Walk of Life, walking 10 miles from Bradford-on-Avon to Bath to raise vital funds for Royal United Hospitals Bath.

We're delighted to share that they have raised over £5000! 🎉

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