Stoke Gifford Retirement Village

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The ExtraCare Charitable Trust currently has 3,879 homes within our Housing Schemes and Villages at different locations. These are available to older people in their local area for affordable rent, shared ownership and leasehold sale.

Facilities: Each Housing Scheme or Village has 5 to 18 social, health and leisure facilities that are accessible to our residents and up to 5,000 older people across our wider communities.

Care: Dependent on individual circumstances we can support residents with significant assessed care needs. Residents can access the Charity's Well-being service which helps residents monitor their health and lifestyle, ensuring early detection of potential health conditions. Residents with dementia using our Enriched Opportunities Programme® are 50% less likely to move into a care home.

Staff: Our Housing Schemes and Villages are supported by a team of 1,500 staff, recruited to work with us directly. Over 85% of our care staff are qualified to QCF (NVQ) Level 2 in Health and Social Care (the national training requirement is 50%). The Charity has Investors in People Silver Award status.

Activities: Across our communities we offer residents a wide choice of different activities. These may include: reading groups, choir singing, wheelchair aerobics, tai chi, abseiling and large events at national venues. Every Village and Housing Scheme is supported through our Activities Facilitators.

Volunteers: We have around 3,000 active volunteers representing all age groups who support the following areas: administration, hospitality, well-being and health, entertainment, skills learning, activities, resident friendship and our charity shops.

Charity Shops: We operate around 60 ExtraCare Charity Shops. Income from our Charity Shops is used to support the more vulnerable people within our Schemes and Villages. This is done through supporting the Enriched Opportunities Programme® (in addition to any funds raised), our care service, health and well-being projects and supporting our research programme.

Affordability: Living with ExtraCare should be affordable for all, including those residents living in a rental home with only a minimum state pension. ExtraCare employs its own benefits team to help residents access their entitlements. In recent years, the Charity has found over £4m each year in benefits on behalf of residents living in its Villages and Schemes. The team finds up to £1.4m in unclaimed benefits amongst those residents moving into our new developments.

Funding: We derive funding from a variety of sources including payments for our housing, care and support services, funding from statutory agencies, charity appeals, legacies and income from our Charity Shops. Surplus funds are used by the Charity to support residents' housing, health and well-being and to develop new Villages in response to significant national demand.

Demand and Our Development Programme: Typically, each ExtraCare Village has a waiting list of 200 places. Therefore, construction plans or proposals are in place to develop further Villages across the Greater Midlands area.

A second Milton Keynes Village opened in Shenley Wood in Spring 2012.

ExtraCare's five year strategy includes a £200m development programme to complete five Villages in Birmingham. The first, New Oscott Village, opened in 2010 and is now over-subscribed. Pannel Croft Village in in the Newtown area of Birmingham opened in November 2012, and Hagley Road Village opened in 2013.

Further Birmingham Villages are also planned for Bournville (2015) and Longbridge (2017). A Village in Coventry is currently under construction, and ExtraCare is also planning Villages in South Gloucestershire, Bedford, Solihull and High Wycombe.

• Anynomous

  14 June 2019

  How wonderful to see two of our most committed volunteers Ted and Merle supporting RAF in our local community 🛩

• Anynomous

  13 June 2019

  **Competition Time**

  We are giving away £50 in vouchers to use at our fantastic hair studio situated inside Stoke Gifford Retirement Village.

  Our hair studio is open to residents AND non-residents and can offer anyting from a wet trim to a full head of colour!

  ...

  To enter all you have to do is;

  LIKE AND SHARE this post!!

  Winner will be announced Monday 17th June

  Good luck!

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• Anynomous

  08 June 2019

  There's a storm brewing at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village. Here's the views from some of our balconies 🌩️

• Anynomous

  07 June 2019

  It was lovely to have time this morning with Shawn one of our Volunteer gym assistants, as he helped me with my 10k training! 🏃🏼‍♀️ Full of knowledge and confidence he’s a huge asset to the YourGym team.

  Thank you for all you do Shaun 🛎🎉 Laura and the team

  #volunteersweek2019 #trainhardgohome

• Anynomous

  06 June 2019

  And so today we waved farewell to our fantastic Work Experience placements students from SGS College.

  You were a pleasure to work alongside and we look forward to seeing you back with us as Volunteers.

  Huge well done girls 👏🏻

• Anynomous

  05 June 2019

  Lovely coming home to find our article on my doorstep, a little rain sodden 😅 Our local publication supporting our search for Community Library Volunteers. Featuring two of our most dedicated Volunteer Library Assistants.

  Thank you Stoke Gifford Journal for supporting us and for the time your journalist Laura gave to us yesterday #volunteersweek2019 #weneedyou

• Anynomous

  04 June 2019

  It’s Volunteers’ Week here at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village and today we are hosting a Q&A on Student Volunteering hosted by Nia Crouch from the Student Success Services, Enterprise and Employability team.

  Nia is here to talk to us about the value of student volunteers and what they can bring to our community, but also the huge benefits to them as learners, working alongside our residents and staff team.

  Thank you Nia for your time today #volunteersweek2019 #valueofvolunteering

• Anynomous

  03 June 2019

  It’s National Volunteers’ Week and here at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village, we are celebrating the success of all of our committed Volunteers and the impact they have on our community.

  What a wonderful way to kick off the week with a Volunteers Awards Ceremony recognising those individuals who have shown excellence, integrity and outstanding team worker. It was a pleasure to enjoy afternoon tea with you all.

  And a special thank you to Barbara Ball our guest speaker from Sou...thern Brooks Community Partnerships talking to us about the value of volunteering.

  Watch this space for our exciting events across the week! #volunteersweek2019 #volunteersuccess #ringingpriases 🛎

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• Anynomous

  17 May 2019

  We have been honoured to work with several of ACS’s students. A credit to their school 👏🏻