A SKILLS sharing day was combined with a harvest festival celebration for residents of a reirement home.
Staff at The Willows care home, Burton Fleming, organised a skills swap-shop day as part of the annual Older People’s Day, and residents shared their skills and learned new ones such as flower arranging, on Wednesday 3 October.
St Cuthbert’s Church, Burton Fleming, visited the home to conduct a Harvest service, for which residents donated produce.
Jean Brilly, manager at The Willows, said: “It was incorporating a doing and worshipping day.
“The time donated by people was more precious to us than money. It is a month for promoting age in the UK, and sharing skills and experience between generations. Whether it went from young to old or vice versa it was still good.”
UK Older People’s Day is a Government intitiative which challenges stereotypes and gets people to think differently about the contribution older people make to society.