Jazz Festival promises musical magic across Birmingham
ExtraCare residents and villages will be taking part in the 40th Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival with nine acts performing across the charity’s six West Midlands village locations.
July 3, 2024
Christmas festivities take place across ExtraCare
Our 20 locations are well and truly embracing the festive spirit this Christmas with concerts, fayres, bell ringing, pantomimes, Christmas jumpers and New Years Eve Balls.
December 20, 2023
ExtraCare locations honour Remembrance Day
Residents and staff across ExtraCare locations have been busy honouring this year’s Remembrance Day. With stunning displays, talented finger work and events taking place, residents across the country have gathered to remember and honour.
November 10, 2023
Retirement village honours Mental Health Awareness Week
Residents and staff from a retirement village in Birmingham honoured Wear it Green Day this week to raise awareness for mental health.
May 19, 2023
Longbridge retirement village mother and daughter-in-law talk 5 decades worth of love, family, and volunteering
Much has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters, but this Mother’s Day we wanted to explore one mother in-law and daughter-in-law pairing who rival even the closest of parent-child bonds.
March 25, 2022
Eighty-nine-year-old uses lockdown to craft over 250 bespoke door plaques for his Birmingham neighbours
A grandfather has created more than 250 bespoke wooden number plaques for each of the residents living at ExtraCare’s Longbridge Retirement Village in Birmingham. Each plaque features his own hand drawn and painted individual wildlife artwork.
April 28, 2021
Birmingham primary pupils help older people tackle loneliness
Pupils from Cofton Primary School in Birmingham have been exchanging letters with residents at ExtraCare’s Longbridge Retirement Village in a bid to lessen the feeling of loneliness experienced during lockdown.
December 8, 2020
Great-grandfather living with dementia teams up with Solihull school
A great-grandfather who is living with dementia has teamed up with local school children in Solihull to create a poetry book that has been officially launched as part of National Story Telling Week.
February 6, 2020
Dozens of ExtraCare residents feel more comfortable talking about death following bereavement support training across villages
As a five-year-long partnership between The ExtraCare Charitable Trust and national charity, Cruse Bereavement Care reaches its halfway point, the interim results of the project were revealed at an event, which took play at Longbridge Retirement Village today (Friday).
October 18, 2019
Lord Mayor of Birmingham thanks volunteers at Longbridge Village
June 10, 2019
Longbridge Retirement Village shortlisted for Inside Housing Development Award
Longbridge Retirement Village has been shortlisted as a finalist for Best Older People’s Housing Development at this year’s Inside Housing Development Awards.
August 20, 2018
CBSO Musicians Making a Difference to People Living With Dementia at ExtraCare’s Birmingham Retirement Villages
Musicians have been making a difference to the lives of people living with dementia and memory issues at the ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s retirement villages in Birmingham.
May 25, 2018