Since 1970, Earth Day has been marked annually on 22 April to encourage people to take time to appreciate the environment around them. When the team at Duckyls Farm, a care home for adults with learning disabilities, discussed Earth Day’s steadfast commitment to end plastics for the sake of human and planetary health, they decided…
While the residents have plans for an Easter Egg hunt their horses received bunches of carrots as Easter treats. Duckyls Farm, a care home for adults with learning disabilities, run by the Diagrama Foundation is ensuring everyone at the Farm is part of the Easter celebrations this year. The residents of Duckyls Farm in West…
Diagrama Foundation has appointed a Care Farm and Community Manager at Duckyls Farm, a care home for adults with learning disabilities. Keri Strugnell has been appointed as the Care Farm and Community Manager for the 100 acre Duckyls Farm in West Sussex to lead the development and management of the facilities and relationships with the…
On 11 December residents at the Edensor nursing and dementia care home in Clacton on Sea enjoyed a Polish Christmas feast of Ryba Po Grecku and wished each other Wesołych Świąt. Christmas came early for the fifty Edensor care home residents and the on-site team of carers, when the award winning home in Orwell Road…
Duckyls Farm Manager Karen Tolton will travel to Florida in early 2024, to take part in the 48.6 mile ‘Disney Dopey Challenge’ In January 2024, Duckyls Farm Manager Karen and her sister-in-law Lorna will travel to the USA to run in four different races, with a total distance of 48.6 miles to raise funds to…
Edensor Care Home in Clacton-on-Sea is celebrating after winning the prestigious Climate Action Toward Net Zero award at The Prospers. Owned by the charity Diagrama Foundation, the Edensor Care Home, which specialises in nursing and dementia care, was thrilled to win the Climate Action Toward Net Zero, at the Prosper Awards on Thursday 6 July…
In advance of World Fragile X Day on 22 July, Duckyls Farm is highlighting this little known genetic condition, which affects around 1 in 4000 males and 1 in 6000 females in the UK. The less well known Fragile X Syndrome is a genetic condition that affects both boys and girls, although boys are often more…
Football fanatics and players from Duckyls Farm met fundraiser Steve Atkins during his 100 mile challenge to raise £12,000 for the Sussex Disability Football League. Residents from Duckyls Farm, who play in the Sussex Disability Football League were delighted to meet the organisation’s chair Steve Atkins and share motivational messages during his 100 mile walk…
On 12 May, the Mayor of Colchester, Councillor Tim Young, visited Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea to witness their Montessori principles in action and to hear about the nursing home’s innovative plans for end-of-life care. On Friday 12 May, residents, their families and staff at the Edensor nursing and dementia care home were…
Edensor, a fifty-bed care centre for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Clacton, opens a Hydration and Nutrition Station for residents. As part of regular meetings with PROSPER (who promote safer provision of care for elderly residents in Essex), Edensor has been discussing what additional measures they might employ to help with residents…