ExtraCare Residents Enjoy Festive Season at Winter Wonderland
700 residents from The ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s retirement villages and schemes up and down the country gathered in Nottingham for a Winter Wonderland event to celebrate the festive season.
December 6, 2016
Time Capsule Buried at Hughenden Gardens Retirement Village
High Wycombe great grandmother Yvonne Jack helped to bury a time capsule on the site of the 260-home Hughenden Gardens Retirement Village.
November 21, 2016
Coventry retirement village residents abseil down building to raise money
Two residents of Earlsdon Park Retirement Village have abseiled down the 10 storey building as part of a community partnership between The ExtraCare Charitable Trust and Coventry Building Society, to raise money for the charity’s four Coventry locations.
November 8, 2016
Lip Sync Legends: Changing how we view older people
Rebecca Dillon has just joined ExtraCare as a graduate trainee. Residents at Lovat Fields Village in Milton Keynes showed her a good time with Boy George, Queen and Amy…
October 21, 2016
ExtraCare Wins Older People’s Development of the Year
ExtraCare’s Bournville Gardens Village in Birmingham has been announced winner of the ‘The Older People’s Development of the Year’ at the 2016 Top 60 Awards run by Inside Housing Magazine.
October 14, 2016
King’s Fund Report Highlights Benefits of ExtraCare Research
ExtraCare’s unique model of homes, care and lifestyle is making a significant contribution to older people’s improved health and demonstrates a 38% reduction in an individual's annual NHS costs. This has been validated through the Charity’s on-going research with Aston University.
October 13, 2016
Retirement Village Residents Mime Rock Legends in Lip Sync Tribute Show
Residents at The ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s Lovat Fields Retirement Village in Milton Keynes performed their own ‘Lip Sync’ mime show paying tribute to stars such as Diana Ross and Boy George.
October 10, 2016
Remembering the Second World War at Earlsdon Park Village
A local BBC radio station visited Earlsdon Park Retirement Village in Coventry as part of the Village’s Second World War commemorations.
September 2, 2016
ExtraCare Charitable Trust Increases Funding
The ExtraCare Charitable Trust has completed a £35 million private placement with BAPFIM.
July 25, 2016
Bournville Gardens Village – Finalist in 2016 Top 60 Developments
Bournville Gardens Village has been named as a finalist in the ‘Older People’s Development of the Year’ category for the Top 60 Developments, a national housing award run by Inside Housing magazine.
July 4, 2016
Housing, jobs and community boost with launch of Earlsdon Park Retirement Village
A £44m, high-rise development for older people has opened in Coventry this week, boosting the city’s retirement housing options, jobs and community facilities.
July 1, 2016
New Village takes retirement living to new heights
Innovative thinking about a new breed of retirement living options has never been more vital. A report last month from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Housing and Care for Older People raised awareness of “later homes”, not just starter homes for younger people.
June 30, 2016