Offering more than a smile to residents at Sandbanks residential care home, Sandbanks Lodge, was a loveable guinea pig from animal handling therapy experts Zoo Lab.

Investing in the right skills and knowledge isn’t just lip service is a way of life for Belmont Healthcare which was created out of a genuine desire to improve standards of care in the UK.

Well done Cathy Worman and Angela Smith for being voted and recognised as winners of the Champion of the Year Award during The Care Workers Charity awards this month.   

This has made our day! Well done to the Sandbanks team who received this lovely compliment from a respite customer's relative:

New Year announcement couldn’t be more positive for the Belmont Healthcare Group who has added to their care portfolio with the purchase of the Dartford based Haslington Care Home.

Embracing new experiences and opportunities Belmont Healthcare Madeira Lodge residents sampled something a little exotic when ZooLab visited.

Bringing continuous professional development to over one hundred Belmont Healthcare employees is Bianca Sargent, the company’s dedicated in-house training and development manager.

Care home residents in Crowhurst rejoice as they receive a visit from some furry friends during a hands-on meet and greet with some very friendly animals from Ark Animal Encounters.

Belmont Healthcare managing director Adam Hutchison tops his previous award for Outstanding Contribution to Social Care in Kent with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Social Care South East at the Great British Care Awards.

Award winning therapy puts a smile on our residents’ faces as we welcomed Motivation & Co to engage our residents with stimulating games.

Belmont Healthcare managing director Adam Hutchison takes centre stage at the NEC Care Show to discuss the future of care with delegates.

Belmont Healthcare Group harnesses the talent within its own company to appoint a new South East operations manager and manager at theIR New Romney care home Sandbanks.

Understanding the challenges people with dementia face is Belmont Healthcare who were asked to work alongside the local authority’s community mental health team concerning a patient who had been found wandering far from a care home during a period of respite care.

Belmont Healthcare managing director Adam Hutchison wins the Outstanding Contribution to Social Care at the Kent Care Awards this year.

Summer didn't go by without holding our annual Summer Fairs at Edendale Lodge, Madeira Lodge and Sandbanks, and what a lot of fun we had.

Opening the doors and encouraging family, friends, staff and the local community to come together a summer garden party has been organised for Monday the 27th of August.

It is said that singing and laughter is the best medicine and that is certainly true at the Madeira Day Centre where visitors and residents come together to help sing away their blues as the Belmont Healthcare Group embrace the idea a dementia singing group.

Belmont Healthcare are running a Virtual Dementia Tour. Walk in the shoes of someone with the disease and understand how it feels.

Birthday celebrations and the lovely things people say…

…we never forget how our work positively impacts.

The CQC announcement concerning the increase in fees for regulated provision for 2018/19 comes as no surprise to social care providers. However while the sector welcomes robust and improving regulations for the delivery of care, we must ensure these fee increases focus on sector improvements.

We're celebrating a very special 100th birthday at Madeira Lodge and no it isn't that of the RAF. Our much loved resident Ida is celebrating her very own one hundred years and we are so privileged and happy to be celebrating this wonderful age with her- Happy Birthday Ida. 

Belmont Healthcare Group managing director Adam Hutchison writes about the highs and lows of managing, motivating, and developing a finely tuned team of caring professionals. 

Embracing the principles that to live a happy, fulfilled life when we are older we continue to want and need the same fundamental things, we have begun to deliver a wellness and exercise programme with Oomph Wellness.