Anchor - Dearne Hall

01/11/2026

🪩 Fancy a trip back to the 70s?

Join everyone at Anchor - Wharfeside care home on Friday 27 November for a disco featuring classic hits from the decade. Come along to enjoy the music, have a dance or sing along to some familiar favourites.

70s fancy dress is welcome, but not essential.

📅 Friday 27 November, from 11am
📍 Wharfeside care home, Otley

Everyone is welcome. Find out more and book your place: https://www.anchor.org.uk/news-events-blogs/events/70s-disco-special-wharfeside-care-home

01/11/2026

Our Loving Later Life Awards spotlight continues with James Rae, winner of the Neighbour Like No Other Award.

Living at Hanover Close in Andover, James is always ready to lend a hand to his neighbours. Whether helping with practical tasks, giving people lifts to appointments or getting involved in community projects such as building a garden bench, he makes a real difference.

James said: “It’s nice to be thought of, and I couldn’t have done it without everyone else in our lovely community!”

Congratulations, James, and thank you for helping make your community such a supportive place to live. 💜

https://www.anchor.org.uk/news-events-blogs/news/meet-our-2026-loving-later-life-award-winners

31/10/2026

🎃 Happy Halloween!

There’s been plenty of fun across our care homes, with residents and colleagues getting creative with crafts, carving pumpkins, enjoying spooky snacks and getting together for Halloween themed parties.

Here’s a look at what residents and colleagues got up to this Halloween.

31/10/2026

💜 Join West Hall care home for a Remembrance Service on Thursday 5 November.

They will come together to honour the lives of lost loved ones, with singing from Feltonfleet School, a performance by harpist Danielle and a service led by Revd. Dr Keith Elford, Vicar of West Byfleet and New Haw.

Friends, family and members of the local community are warmly invited. Refreshments will be served after the service.

📅 Thursday 5 November, 2.30pm–4pm

Find out more here:

Join us at West Hall care home for a Remembrance Service as we come together to honour the lives of loved ones we have lost.

31/10/2026

What happens when a passion for dance becomes part of your day job?

For Bob, a Care Assistant at Anchor - St Edith's Court, it means bringing music, movement and plenty of encouragement to regular Zest sessions with residents.

Bob has been delivering Zest at the care home since completing his training, and says it’s his favourite part of the job.

“It’s my favourite part of the job. We all feel good after it.”

It’s lovely to see Bob using something he’s passionate about to help residents stay active, have fun and enjoy time together. 💜 Zest Wellbeing

Read Bob’s story: https://www.anchor.org.uk/news-events-blogs/blogs/meet-bob-bringing-energy-and-movement-zest-st-ediths-court

30/10/2026

Did you know we have care homes in Leeds?

The Manor House Roundhay is our luxurious new care home in Leeds offering first class residential care and dementia care in a beautiful setting close to Roundhay Park.

Meticulously finished to the highest standard, The Manor House Roundhay is a light, spacious and elegant home offering five-star accommodation and a wide range of impressive facilities. Beautifully appointed communal spaces, perfect for socialising with friends, relaxing, and enjoying daily life, are complemented by landscaped gardens and an engaging activities programme of social events.

Communal facilities also include:

- Engaging activities programme
- Communal lounge
- Hobby / craft room
- Hairdressing salon

To find out more about The Manor House Roundhay, please visit: https://www.anchor.org.uk/our-properties/manor-house-roundhay-leeds

30/10/2026

30/10/2026

We think residents at Millbeck did a great job pumpkin carving 🎃

30/10/2026

Some very special guests came to visit residents at Anchor - Hurst Park Court 🐴🎃

29/10/2026

27/01/2021

With the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations fully underway, we’re delighted to say that all new residents joining our care homes will also be prioritised for a vaccination upon moving in. Find out more in our story below:

https://www.anchorhanover.org.uk/news-events-blogs/news/all-new-anchor-residents-be-vaccinated-moving

26/11/2020

Join Britain’s care home residents and carers as we this Christmas!

We want to give you, care workers, care home residents and their loved ones an opportunity to make each other smile. We want to hear your favourite Christmas cracker jokes and help you share them with as many care workers and care home residents as possible.

We’d love it if you could share a video of yourself telling your favourite joke, but you can use text if you prefer. Just add your jokes in the comments of our Anchor post here: facebook.com/Anchor/posts/3524553177598211. We’ll turn your jokes and messages into a series of short digital Christmas Cracker videos that we’ll share with care workers and care home residents across the country in in the runup to Christmas.

Please make sure you have permission from anyone you feature in your video and please keep your cracker jokes clean and respectable. After all, you don’t want to end up on Santa’s naughty list.

Find out more: https://www.anchorhanover.org.uk/crackersmile

08/07/2020

Think you have what it takes to complete our Summer of Sport TRYathlon? 💪

https://anchorhanover.org.uk/summer-of-sport/tryathlon

07/07/2020

Sporting events around the world may have been cancelled because of coronavirus, but we are still very much looking forward to a unique Summer of Sport in 2020.

Between Monday 20 and Sunday 26 July we are holding our own alternative summer games and we invite you to enjoy them with us.

"Training" is already well underway and homes will be sharing pictures and video clips of the build up across social media using the hashtag . So stay tuned!
https://www.anchorhanover.org.uk/summer-of-sport

24/04/2020

Massive thank you Wayne Gollik and all at Markham grange for this wonderful donation, weather is going to be great this weekend so can hopefully get some residents out in the garden to start planting them all

23/04/2020

Some of the amazing donations received by Dearne hall from local community groups and Marriosons Corton wood.....a MASSIVE THANK YOU from all at Dearne Hall

21/04/2020

Overwhelmed with our huge, fabulous donation to help keep our residents busy........thank you so much from all the residents and staff at dearne hall