Meet Mandy, our talented resident at Cwrt Enfys, who has kindly donated a wonderful wooden model of the Titanic to the home. Mandy, aged 59, spent three years carefully building the impressive model ship, which measures 4 foot 7inches in length. With a passion for creativity and a love of a challenge, Mandy decided to [...]

The Hollies residents and staff were surprised and shocked to have received a visit from the current Miss World.  The beautiful and talented Opal Suchata from Thailand flew to the UK for a flying visit for a big event in Cardiff and while here she wanted to come to our care home and meet some [...]

Never underestimate the power of music! In each of our homes we pride ourselves on improving well-being for our residents in many ways and one proven way is music.  Music is one of our biggest tools for sensory where it can trigger personal memories, relaxes residents when they are anxious or a great [...]

We are thrilled that our fabulous Tajina, who works as a kitchen assistant at The Hollies Care Home in Pontypridd, is a finalist at this year’s prestigious Wales Care Awards 2025. Tajina was a schoolteacher in Nepal and moved to South Wales in early 2024 and just over a year after arriving in the UK [...]

As the annual Elvis festival came to a close in Porthcawl, we didn't want our residents to miss out so we invited Jimmy Elvis to perform for our residents and staff at our Morgana Court Care Home in Porthcawl. We made sure we dressed up in 60s and 70s gear to celebrate Elvis. Everyone danced [...]

Staff and residents from across our five care homes all joined together to wear odd socks on their feet (and hands) to raise awareness for World Down Syndrome Day.  We know that every person is unique and we celebrate them all and that's why we chose to show our support for anyone with Down Syndrome [...]

We are thrilled to announce three of our SilverCrest Care Home team have reached the finals of the Wales Care Awards. The inaugural ceremony will be held at the Mercure Holland House Hotel on Friday 18th October and this year will be hosted by BBC Wales presenter Jason Mohammad as Wynne Evans is currently appearing [...]

Mill View care home in Ystrad, Rhondda's fundraising afternoon is back on Thursday 8th August and this year's theme is a Western Themed carnival. Kara, our activities co-ordinator and her residents will be holding a carnival in their garden (weather permitting) from 1.30pm - 4.30pm.  There will be lots of fun game stalls including the [...]

As part of our ongoing well-being programme and person centred care approach at our South Wales care homes, we recently reunited our resident Cyril with his beloved Pontypridd Male Voice choir and this was quite simply one of our favourite moments ever.   Cyril had been a member of the choir for many years and [...]

Nancy is our eldest resident at Morgana Court and is certainly keeps us on our toes.  Her family together with staff and friends from the home helped to celebrate her big day with her.  Everyone knows that Nancy has a sweet tooth but her absolute favourite treat is a Jaffa cake so the home made [...]